Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)

the clip is Rick Astley Never Gonna Give You Up, the 4k remaster, and the comments are just people confessing how they got tricked into clicking, nobody arrived on purpose and everybody stayed for the same three seconds of intro

was studying btw: ok be honest, not one of you meant to click this right

i memorized the link: i did not, i swear i was going somewhere completely else

certified link dealer: i meant it, i sent this to like forty people before lunch

certified link dealer leaning back at his screen like he owns the room

old internet enjoyer: forty is rookie numbers, we used to take out whole forums

genuinely asking: wait so every single one of us got sent by a different person

was studying btw: my professor called it the final exam answer key 😭

was studying btw staring at the screen like it personally betrayed her

not a meme its art: and yet here you are, blessed with a masterpiece, youre welcome

i memorized the link: im not listening im just, present in the room

genuinely asking: guys why is everyone confessing what is going on

certified link dealer: hajun buddy you got rickrolled, welcome to the club KDJFKSJ

old internet enjoyer: the club has a billion members, no card required

not a meme its art already quietly mouthing the intro

i memorized the link: how are you humming it we literally just loaded in

not a meme its art: we never loaded in, we were always here

was studying btw: thats so ominous for a 1987 pop song

certified link dealer: he really never gave us up huh

genuinely asking scrolling up trying to find where the chat even started

the confessions turn into a contest, everyone one upping the last on the dumbest way they got dragged here

old internet enjoyer: back in my day you got a plain forum link and that was that

certified link dealer: amateur hour, i dropped mine in the google classroom, whole room started singing

genuinely asking: wait the TEACHER didnt stop it

certified link dealer: teacher did nothing, best day of my entire school life

certified link dealer typing with one hand, too pleased with himself

i memorized the link: a national exam board slid the qr into a math paper, thats government tier

was studying btw: do NOT joke about that, i would sob mid exam 😭

not a meme its art: mine was a discord age verification lmaooo

genuinely asking: someone said they scanned a random guys HAIRLINE and it led here

genuinely asking sliding down out of frame laughing

old internet enjoyer: in my day hairlines led nowhere, they just receded

i memorized the link: the worst one is 'the video got taken down', so you click to check

was studying btw: the taken down one gets me every time, its pure evil

not a meme its art: i clicked a laptop price link and got this, honestly no regrets

old internet enjoyer nodding slowly at every method like a war veteran

certified link dealer: the street qr with no context is my favorite, chaos with no author

genuinely asking: so youre telling me literally any link ever could be this

the youngest finally admits he has been nodding along without knowing what the actual joke is

genuinely asking: ok real question, be nice, what IS a rickroll

old internet enjoyer: oh no, now we have to explain the joke out loud

not a meme its art: someone sends you a link swearing its one thing

was studying btw: and its this, its always this, forever

certified link dealer: you click expecting treasure and you find rick instead

genuinely asking: ohhhh so the WHOLE point is getting tricked to right here

genuinely asking sitting up like the whole internet just made sense

i memorized the link: he got it faster than half the people who send it

genuinely asking: wait but now that i know, can i still get rickrolled

old internet enjoyer: sweet summer child, knowing has never once saved anybody

not a meme its art: us explaining the joke to each other is so deeply reddit

was studying btw: we really formed a support group over one link

old internet enjoyer rubbing his eyes at the whole situation

certified link dealer: explaining it to hajun is genuinely 'big brain time'

i memorized the link: did you just quote a comment to sound smart

certified link dealer: maybe. did it work

genuinely asking: no but i wrote it down anyway

one of them will not stop insisting he is the exception to the entire meme

i memorized the link: for the record, you cannot rickroll me, i memorized the whole link

certified link dealer: king you are inside the video as we speak

i memorized the link: thats different, i came here to verify it was the correct link

was studying btw: verify, sure, tell us more 😭

genuinely asking: why would you memorize a link who does that

i memorized the link: so nobody can trick me, obviously, its a strategy

old internet enjoyer: and yet

i memorized the link: and yet nothing, i walked in of my own free will

i memorized the link arms folded, refusing to look at the play button

not a meme its art: minjae you have been tapping your foot for a full minute

was studying btw pointing at the screen laughing

certified link dealer: he knows the chorus is coming, look at him bracing

i memorized the link: i am not bracing i am simply sitting

not a meme its art: youre literally singing along right now

i memorized the link going completely still for a second

i memorized the link: ok maybe i got a little rickrolled

certified link dealer: 'a little' the man has the full choreography KJFDKS

genuinely asking: so the memorizing the link thing does nothing

old internet enjoyer: told you, knowing never saved a soul

then somebody says the quiet part, that under the joke this thing actually goes hard, and the room splits

not a meme its art: hot take, meme aside, this song genuinely slaps

i memorized the link: no its bad, thats the whole reason its a meme

not a meme its art: no bc listen, that bassline is immaculate actually

old internet enjoyer: finally, a person of taste, this is real music

certified link dealer: ok boomer

old internet enjoyer: i am thirty years old

was studying btw: every single time someone defends it a fight starts lol

i memorized the link kicking back to enjoy the argument he lit

genuinely asking: why is the comment section fighting boomer vs gen z under a love song

not a meme its art: never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down

not a meme its art typing the lyrics out one line at a time

genuinely asking: why do i know the next line i never learned this

old internet enjoyer: its in your blood now, it was always in your blood

was studying btw: genuinely though its stuck in my head and i have a mock exam tomorrow

certified link dealer: rick doesnt care about your exam, rick cares about commitment

i memorized the link quietly turning the volume up a notch

i memorized the link: fine, the chorus is a little good, im not saying anything else

not a meme its art: thats the most character growth ive seen all day

attention swings to the man himself, and something about him does not add up

genuinely asking: ok random but how old is he here, he looks twelve

certified link dealer: twelve year old face, forty year old voice, pick a lane rick

not a meme its art: its honestly criminal how good that voice is

was studying btw: he looks younger than me and sounds like my dad, im unwell

was studying btw leaning in close to the screen studying his face

old internet enjoyer: back in the 80s everyone sounded forty at birth, trust me

i memorized the link: no shot that voice comes out of that baby face

genuinely asking: does he just, keep the voice, or

certified link dealer: hes had that exact voice for forty straight years, unreal

not a meme its art covering her face over how good the vocals are

not a meme its art: the dance moves too, hes just grooving, no notes

old internet enjoyer: smooth mover, and people used to mock him for it, jealousy

i memorized the link: im not jealous i just also want a secret forty year old voice

was studying btw: put the studying face away for one second and just look at him

genuinely asking: ok he IS kind of a legend i take back nothing

old internet enjoyer nodding like he personally discovered the guy

someone glances at the numbers under the video and the room goes a little quiet

old internet enjoyer: you do realize this thing has over a billion views

certified link dealer: and we made most of them by tricking people, youre welcome planet earth

i memorized the link: its supposedly the most copied link in history, thats a real thing

was studying btw: imagine how many actually came to listen versus got dragged in like me

not a meme its art: some of us came on purpose, do not lump me in with the victims

genuinely asking: a billion, thats like the whole world got got at least once

genuinely asking just staring at the view counter in silence

old internet enjoyer: he beats the six biggest Beatles songs combined, let that sit

certified link dealer: the Beatles could never trick a nation through a math exam

certified link dealer cracking his knuckles like hes about to send it to more people

i memorized the link: half those views probably left before the first chorus

not a meme its art: their loss, the first three seconds are the best three seconds online

was studying btw: a billion people and every one of them got the same three seconds

old internet enjoyer: makes me feel old and warm at the same time, good old days

genuinely asking: youre always feeling old, its been like six messages

old internet enjoyer: the internet ages you, kid, one link at a time

and somewhere in the numbers the anger they came in with just quietly goes away

not a meme its art: honestly i dont even get mad anymore when it happens

was studying btw: same, at this point its like running into an old friend

certified link dealer: if nobody rickrolls me for a week i just do it to myself

genuinely asking: wait thats kind of beautiful actually

genuinely asking typing slower, a little moved

old internet enjoyer: he told us hed never give us up, and the man simply meant it

i memorized the link: im getting emotional over a 1987 bop, this is humiliating

was studying btw: getting rickrolled used to be an insult, now it feels like a privilege

not a meme its art: no bc it really is the last good clean joke on the internet

certified link dealer: beats whatever brainrot the kids are cooking now no offense hajun

genuinely asking: some offense taken but ok fair

i memorized the link pretending something is in his eye

old internet enjoyer: we came here to complain and now look at us, a whole family

was studying btw: a family born entirely out of getting tricked, thats so us

not a meme its art: would you click it right now if someone sent it again

certified link dealer: instantly, no hesitation, every time

genuinely asking: yeah ok me too

the intro loops one more time and nobody moves to leave

certified link dealer: well, he never gave us up, so i guess we never gave him up either

old internet enjoyer: been getting rickrolled since the forum days, wouldnt trade a single one

old internet enjoyer settling back like the reunion just ended

not a meme its art: never gonna give, never gonna let down, thats the whole review

was studying btw: off to fail my mock exam with this stuck in my head, worth it 😭

i memorized the link: for the last time, i was not rickrolled, i visited

certified link dealer: sure buddy, see you back here tomorrow

i memorized the link quietly hitting replay when he thinks nobodys looking

genuinely asking: so wait, do i send this to someone now or

old internet enjoyer: and just like that, he gets it

not a meme its art: go forth and pass it on, you were born for this

genuinely asking already copying the link with a tiny smile

the song rolls back to the start one more time, nobody left the room, and hajun is off to rickroll his whole class tomorrow