• By Paul Boutin
    Apr 1, 2008 1:08 AM 10,547
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    YouTube kills rickrolling once and for all

    April 1, 2008: The day a meme died. Go to YouTube. Click on any of the Featured Videos entries. Every one of them redirects to the same Rick Astley clip. The gag is called "rickrolling," a variant of duckrolling. I'm sure a thousand April Foolsters planned to rickroll you today. But thanks to YouTube, we can all move on.


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