Barackroll and Rickroll - Side by Side

[meegbear]

Run time: 01:31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBghD0XBN5M   Posted on YouTube: August 09, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: August 11, 2008 By DU Member: meegbear Views on DU: 1018

 

[bushisanidiot]

1. Love it!!

ha! I saw that Ellen episode and I knew that dancin' was gonna come back to help him. ;)

[Happyhippychick]

2. K&R for the best video ever.

[madeline_con]

3. That's awesome!

A President who can dance. Change we can believe in! :woohoo:

[LaurenG]

4. Ha! Very Nice! Kicked and Reccommended. nt

[thereismore]

5. I love it. Please someone tell me:

Why is the Rick Astley video used to punk people? I have a huge hole in the cultural understanding of America.

[doc03]

6. There is another example of Obama's

plagiarism taking Rick Astley's words and using them as though they were his own, it's disgusting.:sarcasm:

[meegbear]

7. From Wikipedia ...

Rickrolling is an Internet meme involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up". The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a Web link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The URL can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the true source of the link without clicking (and thus satisfying their curiosity). When a person clicks on the link given and is led to the web page he/she is said to have been "Rickrolled". By extension, it can also mean playing the song loudly in public in order to be disruptive.

The practice began as a variant of an earlier prank originating from the imageboard 4chan called duckrolling, in which a link to somewhere (such as a specific picture or news item) would instead lead to a thread or site containing a photoshopped picture of a duck with wheels. The user at that point, is said to have been "Duckrolled". The first instance of Rickroll occurred on the site's video game board, where a link to the Rick Astley video was claimed to be a mirror of the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV (which was unavailable due to heavy traffic). The joke was confined to 4chan for a very brief period.

By May 2008, the practice had spread beyond 4chan and become an Internet phenomenon, eventually amassing some coverage in the mainstream media. An April 2008 poll by SurveyUSA estimated that at least 18 million American adults have been rickrolled.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickroll

[thereismore]

8. Thanks, now my curiosity is being satisfied without being Rickrolled. nt

[IndyOp]

9. Maybe Rick and Barrack should perform together at the convention?

:shrug:

:eyes: :rofl:

:hi: