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Rickrolling is the gentle, kind, prosocial descendant of what we used to do on the internet, which was putting a redirect to goatse in every possible misspelling of a url (lemmy.today)

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

The concept behind rickrolling afaik is that certain people cannot be upset by extreme violence and the grotesque, but as an alternative method you can inflict psychic damage on those same people with cheesy love songs