Jonnyprophet@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 months agoYouTube ads have ruined the good, old-fashioned Rick Roll.message-squaremessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1444arrow-down115
arrow-up1429arrow-down1message-squareYouTube ads have ruined the good, old-fashioned Rick Roll.Jonnyprophet@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square84fedilink
minus-squarejoyjoy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up92·6 months agoRick Roll is only effective on people using ad blockers
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·6 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 Strice@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·6 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-squareChriin@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up10·6 months agoYup I will usually happily walk into a rick roll. I just enjoy the music. lol
minus-squarePope-King Joe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoIdc what anyone says… It’s a good song
minus-squarehemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 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🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoI wrote a tamper monkey script to detect rick rolls lol
minus-squaresunzu2@thebrainbin.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·6 months agoSad reality indeed that to punk an online user with this classic requires for the said user to be tech savvy
minus-squareBonerMan@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8·6 months agoWrong! I blocked the link with my adblock.
minus-squarevalkyre09@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-26 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
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-26 months agolmao that’s a good one
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!