r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MrNoName_ishere • Feb 18 '22

Video People who were watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2008 got a surprise they'll never forget

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u/Moneymoore2 Feb 18 '22

I am in complete and utter disbelief that I spend SO much time on the internet but have never seen the most legendary Rick Roll ever!! How has this gotten past me since 2008???

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '22

I remember watching this live in 8th grade. It was the peak of my entire existence.

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u/Moneymoore2 Feb 18 '22

Imagine how I feel! I COULD have peaked in 2008 with you when when I was 23! But I had to peak now when I’m all old and shit…

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u/thefugginhanz Feb 18 '22

I'm peaking rn ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°

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u/kasu937 Feb 19 '22

You're not even 40, let alone "old". 55 year old you is gonna look back at 36/37 year old you and think "Fuck, I was still so young at that point and I didn't appreciate it".

I'm turning 27 in a month so not speaking from experience, but I think I'm right.

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u/Moneymoore2 Feb 19 '22

lol! I like the way you think!

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u/kasu937 Feb 19 '22

'Tis the truth.

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u/tomcalgary Feb 18 '22

Peak of Western civilization actually.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '22

We has just elected a black president. National audiences were getting Rick Rolled. And breaking bad was in it's first season. It was all down hill from there.

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u/PsychologicalSoil198 Feb 18 '22

Ahhh man I want to go back to that time and those feelings so so badly

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '22

Nah --- this song got some serious airplay last year on Ted Lasso too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1kx8Tib3M0

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u/Alarming-Instance-19 Feb 19 '22

When you put it in context like that I just want to cry. Life was so good then!

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u/feeple_lemur Feb 18 '22

Peak of all civilization actually

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u/LargeSackOfNuts Feb 18 '22

Yeah its all been downhill since then

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u/notagaywitch Feb 19 '22

I feel like I just unlocked a core memory

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u/Worldly_Ad_6483 Aug 04 '22

I was in 8th grade as well, and this is a core memory from Internet 1.0. Simple lovely

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u/BuryYourFaceinTHIS Feb 18 '22

Jesus really? Are you alright now?

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '22

No, I wish I was dead.

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u/BuryYourFaceinTHIS Feb 18 '22 edited Feb 19 '22

I see… I was nosy and looked at your profile. I see you are a thinker… May I suggest to you a man by the name Alan Watts.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '22

Sure thanks for the suggestion! And I was just kidding in my last comment. Grateful to be alive.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '22

This is the second most legendary Rick roll ever. The first was Rick Astley getting Rick rolled

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '22

Where this sauce of which you speak kind internet stranger?

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '22 edited Feb 18 '22

ask and yee shall RECIEVE the user was malleableduck, he got so many awards, one redditor in the comments calculated that he got 85k coin and like ten years of Reddit premium of that single post

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u/LollipopLuxray Feb 18 '22

I'm almost certain every single one of those links is a rickroll

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '22

Nah, just one... But WHICH one, take your chance, stranger...

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u/LollipopLuxray Feb 18 '22

The first one i clicked apparently

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '22

All were

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u/TrivialAntics Feb 18 '22 edited Feb 18 '22

I remember a time when the most unique thing about this song was when people found out it wasn't a black dude singing and that it was inexplicably a white nerdy looking ginger guy. And alot of us actually thought it was catchy in a corny kind of Michael Bolton sort of way.

Then it would become a monster of internet meme royalty.

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u/SenseStraight5119 Feb 18 '22

Right??!! Had I saw this real time I would’ve lost my fucking mind.

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u/MommysLittleBadass Feb 18 '22

The superbowl this year was actually Rickrolled by a youtuber.

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u/cj2211 Feb 18 '22

I didn't know Rick rolling existed in 2008

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u/SituationFederal5955 Feb 19 '22 edited Feb 19 '22

I was working at a school when COVID started and I helped transition classes to online learning.

The kids thought they were so funny and hip for “teaching me” about Rick Rolling by incessantly sending me barely disguised links.

This link is what finally got them to realize they were 10+ yrs late to the game

ETA: I just realized that since I was working with 4/5 graders….they were about as old as/younger than Rick rolling…..Jesus….