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A rickroll is a fake link that leads to a video of Rick Astley singing. A screamer is a fake link that leads to a piercing scream.

Rickrolls and Screamers have some similarities and some differences. For one, a Rickroll and a Screamer are both types of internet pranks. But they do have a lot of differences.
A Screamer is a project that makes you focus on something very closely - and when you least expect it - A scary face will pop up, with a loud scream in the background.

But a Rickroll is something where somebody tries to make you click a link, and it takes you to Rick Astley's famous "Never Gonna Give You Up" song. It's meant to be kind of annoying though, because say there's a link saying "You Won A Free Minecraft Premium Account!" and then it links you to that song.

So they have their differences and similarities.

ProgrammingPro01 wrote:

Rickrolls and Screamers have some similarities and some differences. For one, a Rickroll and a Screamer are both types of internet pranks. But they do have a lot of differences.
A Screamer is a project that makes you focus on something very closely - and when you least expect it - A scary face will pop up, with a loud scream in the background.

But a Rickroll is something where somebody tries to make you click a link, and it takes you to Rick Astley's famous "Never Gonna Give You Up" song. It's meant to be kind of annoying though, because say there's a link saying "You Won A Free Minecraft Premium Account!" and then it links you to that song.

So they have their differences and similarities.

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i think a rick roll is something called a  me me lol there so funny ilove them XD

AvatarAang4 wrote:

Ban All Screamers!

NOOOOOO! NEVER!!!!!

videogame9 wrote:

This may be offtopic but I JUST FOUND OUT THE MEANING OF LIFE.
I couldn't help it. :P

There's your answer.

SpriteMaster wrote:

Congrats internet, we just poisoned another young mind!

calebxy wrote:

How did rickrolling originate, though?

Wikipedia wrote:

Astley recorded "Never Gonna Give You Up" on his 1987 album Whenever You Need Somebody. The song, his solo debut single, was a number one hit on several international charts, including the Billboard Hot 100, Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks and UK Singles Chart. As a means of promoting the song, it was also made into Astley's first music video, which features him performing the song while dancing.
Rickrolling is said to have begun as a variant of an earlier prank from the imageboard 4chan known as duckrolling, in which a link to somewhere (such as a specific picture or news item) would instead lead to a thread or site containing an edited picture of a duck with wheels. The user at that point is said to have been "duckrolled".
By May 2008, the practice had spread beyond 4chan and became an Internet phenomenon, eventually attracting coverage in the mainstream media. An April 2008 poll by SurveyUSA estimated that at least 18 million American adults had been rickrolled. In September 2009, Wired magazine published a guide to modern hoaxes which listed rickrolling as one of the better known beginner-level hoaxes, alongside the fake e-mail chain letter.
The original video on YouTube used for rickrolling was removed for terms of use violations in February 2010 but was reposted within a day.

ProgrammingPro01 wrote:

calebxy wrote:

How did rickrolling originate, though?

Wikipedia wrote:

Astley recorded "Never Gonna Give You Up" on his 1987 album Whenever You Need Somebody. The song, his solo debut single, was a number one hit on several international charts, including the Billboard Hot 100, Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks and UK Singles Chart. As a means of promoting the song, it was also made into Astley's first music video, which features him performing the song while dancing.
Rickrolling is said to have begun as a variant of an earlier prank from the imageboard 4chan known as duckrolling, in which a link to somewhere (such as a specific picture or news item) would instead lead to a thread or site containing an edited picture of a duck with wheels. The user at that point is said to have been "duckrolled".
By May 2008, the practice had spread beyond 4chan and became an Internet phenomenon, eventually attracting coverage in the mainstream media. An April 2008 poll by SurveyUSA estimated that at least 18 million American adults had been rickrolled. In September 2009, Wired magazine published a guide to modern hoaxes which listed rickrolling as one of the better known beginner-level hoaxes, alongside the fake e-mail chain letter.
The original video on YouTube used for rickrolling was removed for terms of use violations in February 2010 but was reposted within a day.

  cool story!

videogame9 wrote:

This may be offtopic but I JUST FOUND OUT THE MEANING OF LIFE.
I couldn't help it. :P

"This video contains content from Channel 5, WMG and Radio e Televisao Record, one or more of whom have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."

Channel 5 had nothing to do with it and didn't exist during the making.

Raido e Televisao - nothing to do with it

WMG - Money, money, money

BOBBYBOB3 wrote:

TheCatAndTheBanana wrote:

videogame9 wrote:

This may be offtopic but I JUST FOUND OUT THE MEANING OF LIFE.
I couldn't help it. :P

"This video contains content from Channel 5, WMG and Radio e Televisao Record, one or more of whom have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."

Channel 5 had nothing to do with it and didn't exist during the making.

Raido e Televisao - nothing to do with it

WMG - Money, money, money

BANANA KITTY

APPLE HAMPSTER

I don't get it. WMG, I hate you.

Daroach1 wrote:

Hm?

I clicked that.

The duckroll originated in the mid-2000s on 4chan as a response to a world filter moot had put on the site. In an interview with TechCrunch, he explained that he set up a filter to change the word “egg” to “duck.” Whenever someone posted the word “eggroll,” it was changed to “duckroll.” After seeing the filter in action, users started posting links to an image of a duck with wooden wheels as a bait and switch, advertising the link to be to an exciting post.
While no exact date has been pinpointed, Lurkmore Wiki says the phenomenon began in mid-November 2006, but the earliest archived 4chan thread with a duckroll appeared on December 12th, 2006.
Duckroll was added to Urban Dictionary on January 4th, 2007. The first duckroll video was posted to YouTube on the same day by shinigamiwolfen. It is four and a half minutes of a still image of a mallard duck with truck tires instead of feet while DarkMateria’s “The Picard Song” plays in the background.
Users would then post bait and switch links to the video. This was the antecedent to users linking to Rick Astley’s video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

Last edited by trinary (2012-06-11 02:29:30)