Alright I guess I'm a few days late on this but

At a women’s basketball game at Eastern Washington University on March 8th, student Pawl Fisher organized a rickroll of the game. "Never Gonna Give You Up" was blasted through the gym, while actor Davin Perry danced dressed in the attire worn by Astley from the music video to the song. Fisher told The New York Times: "I want people to rickroll even bigger events, like the Super Bowl ... I hope people do it better than I did."

ssj12 probably knows all about this.

In connection with the online meme, "Never Gonna Give You Up" was played and performed at some of the Project Chanology February 2008 protests against the Church of Scientology. At February 10, 2008 protests in New York City, Washington, D.C., London, Edinburgh and Seattle, protesters played the song through boomboxes and shouted the phrase "Never gonna let you down!", in what The Guardian called "a live rick-rolling of the Church of Scientology". In response to a website created by Scientologists showing an anti-Anonymous video, Project Chanology participants created a website with a similar domain name with a video displaying the music video to "Never Gonna Give You Up".

All of this is awesome!!!

For thoose of you who don't know

In May 2007 the song's campy music video became the basis of an Internet meme known as "rickrolling". It took its name from a 4chan meme known as "duckrolling", a prank in which someone would post a blind link to a post, allegedly relevant to the discussion, that upon viewing would prove to be a non sequitur - specifically, an image of a duck on wheels. Similarly, in a rickroll a person provides a link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand which actually takes the user to the Rick Astley video. The practice eventually became widespread enough to attract some coverage in the mainstream media.

Interesting... but I have a feeling that the further Internet humour and real life collide and intertwine, the less and less funny internet humour will seem.

LuLZ

Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

Yep, that's a pretty good stunt.

Hehe I think it's great when mainstream media like The New York Times quotes on internet humor.

The ultimate rick roll.

^That's awesome too.

 Oh sure, now that we're in the first few days of rick rolls. But this is one issue where I take the slippery slope approach. And oh what a slippery slope it is. It may start out as a Rick Roll against Scientology, but by the time the 2012 U.S. election rolls around, President Obama will be making statements like "Over my last 4 years in office I'm increased employment by OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!!"

Shortly after, the internet will be quarantined to save what little actual humour remains in our depraved, lol cat picture infested world.