@Jonnyprophet@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 8 months agoYouTube ads have ruined the good, old-fashioned Rick Roll.message-square84fedilinkarrow-up1444arrow-down115
arrow-up1429arrow-down1message-squareYouTube ads have ruined the good, old-fashioned Rick Roll.@Jonnyprophet@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 8 months agomessage-square84fedilink
minus-square@joyjoy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish92•8 months agoRick Roll is only effective on people using ad blockers
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆linkfedilinkEnglish40•8 months agoGiven that ad block users are usually tech savvy and have been around the net a while: We already know the URL and can detect Rick Rolls before clicking on shit.
minus-squareBlastboom Stricelinkfedilink21•8 months agoI have an ad blocker and I tend to recognise the link, but even when I do, I ~choose to click on it for the fun of it.😌
minus-squareChriinlinkfedilink10•8 months agoYup I will usually happily walk into a rick roll. I just enjoy the music. lol
minus-square@hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish2•7 months agoYeah if I get a hunch that the link I’m clicking is a Rick roll, I’m disappointed if it’s not
minus-square🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖linkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agoI wrote a tamper monkey script to detect rick rolls lol
minus-squaresunzu2linkfedilink13•8 months agoSad reality indeed that to punk an online user with this classic requires for the said user to be tech savvy
minus-square@valkyre09@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink6•edit-28 months agoA friend of mine helped me set up a Star Trek automation where the lights turn on and a Star Trek LCARS video plays on my TV. Went to demo it only to discover he’d changed the link to a rickroll. I love that trolling bastard
Rick Roll is only effective on people using ad blockers
Given that ad block users are usually tech savvy and have been around the net a while: We already know the URL and can detect Rick Rolls before clicking on shit.
I have an ad blocker and I tend to recognise the link, but even when I do, I ~choose to click on it for the fun of it.😌
Yup I will usually happily walk into a rick roll. I just enjoy the music. lol
Idc what anyone says… It’s a good song
I mean, the song is a banger
Yeah if I get a hunch that the link I’m clicking is a Rick roll, I’m disappointed if it’s not
I wrote a tamper monkey script to detect rick rolls lol
Sad reality indeed that to punk an online user with this classic requires for the said user to be tech savvy
Wrong! I blocked the link with my adblock.
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XcQ
XcQ, link stays blue
A friend of mine helped me set up a Star Trek automation where the lights turn on and a Star Trek LCARS video plays on my TV.
Went to demo it only to discover he’d changed the link to a rickroll. I love that trolling bastard
lmao that’s a good one
Eh, too much work.
XcQ, no thank you!