The official music video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" has hit a billion views on YouTube thanks to the viral Internet phenomenon of rickrolling. Astley's 1987 song hit YouTube on ...

TikTokers have adapted the age-old internet trend of “RickRolling” to maximize the joke for the platform. Rickrolling began in the early 2000s on 4chan when a link that was supposed to send users to a ...

Rick Astley is as surprised as anyone that his career is still rolling. The humble British singer-songwriter linked together forever with his No. 1 decade-defying pop-culture-ingrained hit from 1987, ...

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg shocked the crowd at a youth climate summit over the weekend when she revitalized a popular internet meme — Rickrolling. Rickrolling was a popular internet ...

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He knows his music – one song in particular – is the backdrop for many a viral video, and even if an undercurrent of mockery exists, at least people are still listening. Because Astley, 56, is so ...

I am a product of the 1980s music genres and I enjoy 80s blasts-from-the-past as much as the next person. However, I must admit that I completely loath the Rick Astley song “Never Gonna Give You Up“.

We’ve reached a new milestone in the uncanny valley, folks: AIs are now Rickrolling humans. Known as “Lindys,” the company’s AI assistants are intended to help customers with various tasks. Part of a ...

Some trends and language patterns are so deeply embedded in the language and culture of the internet that even the most advanced language models struggle to fully extract or contextualize them. Humor, ...

YouTube has granted singer Rick Astley a big comeback. Over the past year or so, the singer’s 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” has been the subject of an internet joke: when internet users click on ...

I will admit, an AI Rickrolling a human completely off its own digital back has a certain appeal, and I'm willing to suspend some disbelief in the hope that maybe this customer service chatbot really ...