- You rickrolled me.
- It annoys me just the same.
I haven't missed it one bit.
♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
- (FBE) So today, we're going to show you
a video that has recently started trending again
after not really being relevant for a while.
- Oh. - Okay.
- Ooh, okay.
- Okay. - I wonder what this is.
- Great.
- Those are the best.
Revisiting old things. Nostalgia, the best way to go.
- Let's do it.
(chuckling) Let's go way back.
- (crowd) Nine, eight, seven, six, five...
- I don't think I've seen this before.
- (crowd) ...three... - Are they gonna blow it up?
- (crowd) ...two...
♪ (dance-pop) ♪
- Bruh! No! NO!
- (crowd) ...three, two... ♪ (dance-pop) ♪
- No. We're not doing this.
- (crowd) ...three, two... ♪ (dance-pop) ♪
- (cracking up) Why?!
- (crowd) ...three, two... ♪ (dance-pop) ♪
- Oh! - Oh my gosh.
♪ (dance-pop) ♪
- Did you really just rickroll me? Really?
♪ (dance-pop) ♪ - I just got rickrolled...
as the kids say.
- YES! I was gonna say, is this rickrolling?
♪ (dance-pop) ♪
- I've never seen this, but I like it.
- ♪ We're no strangers to love ♪
- I mean, I might as well just vibe.
- ♪ You know the rules, and so do I ♪
- I don't know what dance goes with this.
- We really want to keep watching the whole thing.
- As many times as I've been rickrolled,
I don't think I've seen the whole thing.
- ♪ ...any other guy ♪
♪ Never gonna give you up ♪
♪ Never gonna let you down ♪
- This is crazy because I remember watching
a YouTubers React video where they reacted to this,
and now I'm reacting to it.
- With how often you've been on the Fine Brothers React,
I'm so surprised you haven't been rickrolled
at some point. - I know!
This is my first rickroll.
- ♪ ...and hurt you ♪
- It annoys me just the same.
I haven't missed it one bit.
- You rickrolled me.
Effectively as well.
I should have had all the clues I needed
to figure out what was about to happen,
but I still fell for it.
- It's a good song. I don't mind it.
I've sat through it before when I get rickrolled.
I'm like, "All right, I guess it's time to listen to this again.
That's fine."
- In a day and age when everything is so fast
and trends come and go literally by the week,
he is maybe the longest lasting impact on the internet as a whole.
- Why am I the only person that doesn't know this?
- You've never been rickrolled? - No!
So what is it?
They just send you this video?
- (FBE) Yeah, before you could preview a video,
before it would take you to YouTube,
you'd say, "Oh my god! You should watch this video.
This puppy saves a dying kitten from a lake,"
and it would just play that.
- But this is great. (laughing)
I would love if someone sent me this.
All the annoying crap people send me--
I would love this. Send me this.
- (FBE) So we're talking about this today
because 2017 marks the 30th anniversary
of the single's original release. - Oh cool.
- Oh, get out of here.
I thought was it was the 30th anniversary
of that meme being out.
- (FBE) And this year also marks the 10th anniversary
of rickrolling becoming a thing back in 2007.
- Really? - Aw, that's so special.
- Happy anniversary, Rick!
- It's been 10 years?
Oh wow.
I'm old!
- That's crazy.
I don't feel old at all.
That makes me feel a little old now.
- (FBE) Does it feel like it's been 10 years
since we started rickrolling people?
- No, I feel like it was three years ago.
- I felt like it's more recent than that,
but that's crazy! I'm getting old. No!
- It does, actually.
I feel like the first time was when I was looking
for glitches or cheats to a video game in high school,
and that would be about 10 years ago,
and I had it happen to me time and time again.
- It's cool to know that we were around
on the internet when it first began.
It's my hope that it continues to infinity and beyond.
- It's like the heirloom of the internet.
- (laughing) It gets passed down from generation to generation.
Don't let it die, future children.
Keep the rickroll alive.
- What makes me feel old are when I see people who go,
"I don't get it. What's this music video?
Why is it playing?
This isn't what I searched for."
No, it's rickroll. We've been through this.
It's funny seeing a new generation get confused
and have to learn, "Oh, I got pranked!"
- (FBE) Even after 10 years, rickrolling is still pretty well-known.
- Yep.
- Yeah, and it's still pretty funny every time it happens.
- Most things come and go.
Harlem Shake came and went.
Hopefully slime leaves soon because I'm over it.
YouTube goes through cycles.
I don't think I know of many other things
that have stood the test of time like that.
- (FBE) Well, the rickroll trend grew so popular
that back in 2008, YouTube pranked all its users
by linking every video on the homepage to a rickroll.
- That's awesome!
- YouTube was involved? Really?
I did not know that.
- Really? That long ago?
That was before I started? Oh my god, okay.
- Oh my gosh! - Oh my gosh.
- That's classic. - That's hilarious.
- I actually do remember that and I forgot about it
until now and that just-- I was very upset
the first couple times because I thought YouTube--
you got me, YouTube.
- That's great.
I think it's important when platforms are part of their community,
you know, when they're like, "We recognize this is a trend
and we want to celebrate this as well."
- (FBE) And with YouTube being around for over a decade now,
many of the first big viral videos on the site
are now more than 10 years old.
From your perspective being a part of this website,
what are your thoughts about how iconic videos
are over a decade old now, versus when YouTube felt so new?
- Wow, just... oh man.
A decade-- it just makes me realize how old I am getting.
- I'm just waiting for the next rickroll.
I feel like it's gonna happen.
I don't know what it's gonna be.
And I feel like it's gonna be a lot worse.
- In the back of my mind, YouTube is still YouTube.
It's the new way of sharing online content with the world,
and I went to a school recently and one of the kids
wanted to be a YouTuber.
That was one of his occupations.
Kids want to be YouTubers.
That's like a fireman or a police officer.
- The fact that it really has this culture to it,
I think is just so, so cool, and I can't wait to see
where-- first of all, what other things are about
to hit a 10 year anniversary, and also just kind of what videos
right now are we all watching that in 10 years from now
could potentially still have that same level
of long-term longevity.
- It's wild to think that we've been able to find
a home here for as long as we have, right?
And especially in a world where stuff rises and falls so quickly,
you know, to know that we've been able
to stay relevant and have people watch us
for six years now, going on seven years soon,
which is pretty incredible, I'm honored to be a part
of that history.
- (FBE) So finally, a lot of people, when they see this for first time,
they always kind of wonder what does Rick Astley
think about this trend?
And for the 10th anniversary, he actually gave an interview
on Larry King, talking about his feelings about the meme.
- What were his feelings about the meme?
- (FBE) Well, we actually have a video of that to show you.
- Okay.
- Oh shit!
- Oh cool.
We're gonna get rickrolled again, aren't we?
- A few years ago, they told me a prank emerged
called rickrolling... - (Astley) Yeah.
- (King) ...in which they would send a click out--
- I feel like Larry King eats leaves.
(laughing) You know what I mean?
He's got the whole...
- (King) Or "go watch this sex scene." - ...herbivore type look to him.
- (King) "Go watch this incredible home video"
or "go watch this sex scene," anything.
- (Astley) Yeah. - He's looking good.
- He is. I was about to say, he looks really great.
- (Astley) As you're just about to get to the best bit
in whatever video clip you've been sent in that thing,
yeah, you get "Never Gonna Give You Up," which is--
- (King) You had nothing to do with it, right?
- (Astley) No, no, of course not.
- (chuckling) I mean, that would be brilliant
if that was all master planned.
- (Astley) It was just one of those flukes.
It was just a lucky thing.
- (King) Have you ever been rickrolled?
- (Astley) I was-- ♪ (dance-pop) ♪
- Were you in on this?
- (Astley) It was just a lucky thing.
- (King) Have you ever been rickrolled?
- (Astley) I was-- ♪ (dance-pop) ♪
- Yes! Dude, what the heck?
That completely took me totally by surprise just now.
- (Astley) It was just a lucky thing.
- (King) Have you ever been rickrolled?
- (Astley) I was-- ♪ (dance-pop) ♪
- (cracking up) Yeah!
Yes!
- (Astley) It was just a lucky thing.
- (King) Have you ever been rickrolled?
- (Astley) I was-- ♪ (dance-pop) ♪
- Of course, it always goes to that.
- (Astley) It was just a lucky thing.
- (King) Have you ever been rickrolled?
- (Astley) I was-- ♪ (dance-pop) ♪
- (laughing)
♪ (dance-pop) ♪ - (laughing)
I love that. That was a good touch.
♪ (dance-pop) ♪
- Oh, you-- (stammering) I didn't even [bleep] realize!
- I'm gonna get rickrolled.
I feel it. I feel it.
I'm just gonna brace...
- (King) Have you ever been rickrolled?
- ...brace myself. ♪ (dance-pop) ♪
YES! I knew it!
Yeah, I told you!
- ♪ We're no strangers to love ♪
- This one better last to the end.
Because I'm gonna watch the whole goddamn thing.
- Do people find this song annoying?
Because I actually dig it.
- ♪ ...thinking of ♪
♪ You wouldn't get this from... ♪ - His style, though.
I'm really into it.
- ♪ I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling ♪
♪ Gotta make you... ♪
- I might as well watch it.
- ♪ Never gonna give you up ♪
♪ Never gonna let you down ♪
♪ Never gonna run around and desert... ♪
- I'm sorry, I can't get mad.
I love this song.
- ♪ Never gonna make you cry ♪
- Even he's like, "What the [bleep]?"
- ♪ ...say goodbye ♪
♪ Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you ♪
- Oh, it's so good.
So, so good.
- Oh my gosh. - Classic.
Classic!
- I mean, what better way to end the video, right?
- I feel like he's about to come into this goddamn room.
(chuckling) Is he under the table?
Is he gonna pop out of one of those triangles?
You got me.
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