Once again, I'm incredibly behind the curve. I just just found out about this popular internet meme that has been going on for some time now. Even more embarrassingly, until I heard about the Rick Roll, I didn't even know what a meme was.
As this article in the Guardian explains:
It's called the "rick-roll". You're innocently browsing an apparently useful website and see a link to something else that might be of interest, but when you click through to that destination you instead find yourself confronted with Astley's boyish smile, his manly croon, his awkward 1987 dance-moves.You can find out more about this phenomenon here.
The link was a fake, a trap, a dummy with the nefarious purpose of...bringing you face-to-face with the ridiculous.
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