#Rickroll on YouTube

[realprofconan]

get conanrolled

[original-post-locator]

From Pratchett’s 1987 Discworld book Equal Rites, and his 1990 book Good Omens. Just a little detail I noticed:

The mispelling “diuerse” instead of “diverse”. In the context of a witch writing something in Ye Olden Spelling.

Side note; what else was made in 1987?

Rick Astley’s hit song Never Gonna Give You Up.

[sleepnoises]

i bought a tape* and i need you to go to these guys' website and click on the last link

*process was i brought the two most interesting-looking indie tapes to the record store guy and asked which i should listen to if i had basic taste. he said what even is basic taste and then he said the other option sounded like weezer and these people had long songs and good lyrics. im finding the lyrics unintelligible but in a fun way

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Greeting parahumans fans.

Get rickrolled.

[saym0-0]

hey look at this insanely old video of spg i just found pretty cool (vintage rabbit since its like. literally 2008)

[uselesstwinkharker]

dracula (2009) is actually the best film adaptation of dracula. its very faithful to the book, well made, some of the best acting ive ever seen, & is overall a beautiful & thought-provoking telling of the story with a lot of respect for the original

[book-girl4evaaa]

I SWEAR VERONICA IS SO ICONIC

[prismit]

smh kids these days don't understand the point of rickrolling. "haha nice try but the ads on the video prevented me from being rickrolled!" so what you're saying is... you clicked on the link? you clicked on my silly little link expecting something else, but it was actually rick astley's infamous music video? sorry bud, just because you didn't take the time to look in the mirror doesn't mean i missed you with my clown makeup beam. you're still wearing it.

[artythedragon]

We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand

Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

We've know each other for so long Your heart's been aching But you're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it

And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

Blessed thing to have, and will always remember my first Rick Roll on YT back in the good ol’ days of the service.

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 18/02/2024

Mad Mew Mew Becoming Uncanny

Season 6 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume DQ

Ripped by The Green Spy

Requested by xinos! (Discord)

LORD, where to even begin with this one? I mean, a lot of times when I cover well-known rips on this blog, ones that continue to get references and tributes made within the channel itself, its typically rips from early on in the channel's life. Mii Favorite Things, Ripping Video Game Music​.​.​.​.​.​.​At Night, THE NEW TEAM 10 FORT​!​!​! [Francis Flow: Original Mix] - all of these play part in or started a sort of ecosystem of paying forward respect to rips from the channels past, with these examples being from Season 1, 2 and 3 respectively. Yet seemingly through its sheer quality and variety alone, Mad Mew Mew Becoming Uncanny has become a modern classic on the channel despite being barely a year old, referenced in several rips since and with two direct tributes made during Season 7. How the hell did this happen??

I was thinking of this rip a fair bit whilst I was writing the post on Corridors of Vine, wherein I tossed around some thoughts on just how memes grow and evolve overtime. A lot of memes have a very linear and predictable lifespan correlating to just how overexposed internet users get to them, how long it takes before the joke stops being funny from derivative edits and low-effort uses. Yet we're currently in an internet age where far more platforms with unique features and cultures are all in mainstream circulation at the same time, each one finding new bizarre ways to pump extended life into memes as they would've otherwise fallen out of style. TikTok Duets and stitches, the captioned GIFs on iFunny as saved and spread like wildfire through Discord's GIF keyboard, Twitter's quote retweeting, Redditors' thirst for upvotes making them an easy target for all of the above platforms, and of course YouTube channels like SiIvaGunner itself constantly finding new and surprising ways to edit memes in hope of ending up in users' recommended feeds. And when one of these platforms finds a new way to twist a meme, the rest are soon to follow in its footsteps.

What I'm saying is - tracing the growth of memes made in recent times is an immensely interesting experience for just how many hoops they seem to jump through. A meme like "Super Idol" was one I'd never heard of until it started appearing on SiIvaGunner, because the joke itself is so baked into the culture of TikTok: A clip of a pop song cover with an eye-catching beginning and photogenic singer, with an addictive melodic hook and a silly "twist" of an ending. This one little section of the current internet grew its own meme, raised it through the unique features and community of TikTok itself, and soon enough it was everywhere for just a short while. There's a similarly interesting story to follow with Mr Incredible Becoming Uncanny: an innocuous showcase of AI technology on Twitter grew to be adopted into the most rote-basic "thing good/thing bad" meme template possible, before finding new life on TikTok with a seemingly endless pool of new degrees of Canniness added to the original Twitter joke. By now, its as if we're in the 9th layer of irony with these edits (SiIva itself has a YouTube Short that showcases just how deep in the sauce we are) and I genuinely cannot get enough of it.

Those are just two examples of how bizarrely memes seem to be growing and evolving these days, yet even without that explanation of it all I think it's something a lot of us have sort of become...subconsciously aware of. In my eyes, it's that knowledge, the experience of having seen these memes come and go in popularity in so many different ways, that makes Mad Mew Mew Becoming Uncanny such a delight to experience. The two Frankenstein-ian memes I used as examples here, juxtaposed with the enduring icon of meme culture in Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up, effectively assault your senses in a YTPMV made out of pure gold. That is, of course, to be expected from The Green Spy - a ripper who seems content in remaining anonymous yet has been putting out some of the densest YTPMVs I've ever seen on the channel as of late, such as (YTPMV) Bob​-​Omb Battlesources.

The quality of the original Mad Mew Mew certainly help the rip stick with you, yet its really the sheer pace and silliness of the visuals that make the rip unforgettable. Uncanny Mr Incredible practically bursting into the rip out of nowhere five seconds in, the edit of Tian Yiming himself being made uncanny at the end of his section, we in the audience being called out for our canniness, the tenth layer of irony being applied with an Uncanny meme being applied to the very jokes used by the SiIvaGunner team themselves, and even a brief segment paying tribute to VTuber Ina'nis Ninomae...whose birthday this rip was apparently part of as a larger event?

It's a whole bunch of sources, a concoction of shitposting from times of old and new, intent both ironic and genuine - an experience that's as memorable and catchy as it is deeply hilarious to watch. It may be due to my lack of knowledge with VTubers in general, but I hardly remembered this rip as being part of Ina'nis Ninomae's birthday, it alone stood so tall as to eclipse the event itself in legacy. Visuals, jokes, energy, quality, and catchiness - Mad Mew Mew Becoming Uncanny was the perfect storm to leave an unmistakable impression on the channel. The 100K viewcount appears relatively modest when compared to other hits on the channel, and yet, it feels as if every SiIvaGunner fan of today *has* to have heard of this rip; or if nothing else, heard it referenced someplace else. The Green Spy demonstrates time and time again the power that high quality YTPMV holds, and struck absolute gold with Mad Mew Mew Becoming Uncanny, a mess of noise that...still somehow manages to spark so many thoughts out of me.

[joelwindows7]

Reblog to jumpscare others. Xdxddddxdxdxdxdxdxe🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Follow for the same picture of the rickroll every day!

[bunnysiren]

... soo

( I was just scrolling more though the shorts arg and God I love Args BUT ONE THING AND I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF ) ...

Clone riggy is so bbg ( drawing slightly based on a song but shhhh >_< )

[onecoffeebiscuit]

Did you guys notice we just got rickrolled on today's episode of Bored??? 🤣🤣🤣

Minute 1:04

[short-wooloo]

Macy's Thanksgiving parade RickRoll

[sepiasys]

OH MY GOD MY RANDOMIZED MUSIC PLAYLIST RICKROLLED ME LMAOO