Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.world · 4 days agoHouse Judiciary Republicans slammed for 'morally bankrupt' Epstein 'Rickroll' prankwww.thepinknews.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1219arrow-down12
arrow-up1217arrow-down1external-linkHouse Judiciary Republicans slammed for 'morally bankrupt' Epstein 'Rickroll' prankwww.thepinknews.comSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squarethallamabond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·4 days agoYou mean before YouTube existed? Back when downloading a picture took minutes? A 90s Rick roll would have been someone putting the music video on VHS, then mislabeling it, then sharing it.
minus-squareRaiderkev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·4 days agoTbf, waiting a day n a half for a video to load, only for it to be a Rick roll would have been way funnier. Too bad the meme didn’t exist yet then.
minus-squarethallamabond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 days agoAnd that’s only after you found the right video codec, and replaced your sound card because yours was outdated.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-24 days agoSigh… newbies have no appreciation of Internet culture. This is a “'90s Rickroll:” (According to knowyourmeme.com it’s actually from the mid-2000s; before that, bait-and-switch links weren’t really a thing.)
minus-squarethallamabond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agohttps://web.archive.org/web/19990429035254/http://www.hamsterdance.com/
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down2·4 days agoNo, in the 90s a rickroll was goatse, tubgirl, lemon party, blue waffle, pain Olympics, etc Google them at your own risk
minus-squarethallamabond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·4 days agoNo, only goatse existed in the '90s, and that’s 1999. Everything else on your list was from the 2000s.
minus-squareNollij@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoImagine being the historian researching these for dates…
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoKnowyourmeme.com is the Rosetta Stone of our time. Not even joking about that.
minus-squareAfricanExpansionist@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down7·4 days agoNobody likes a pedant
minus-squarexmunk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·4 days agoExcuse me, good sir, but your premise is incorrect. I do.
You mean before YouTube existed? Back when downloading a picture took minutes?
A 90s Rick roll would have been someone putting the music video on VHS, then mislabeling it, then sharing it.
Tbf, waiting a day n a half for a video to load, only for it to be a Rick roll would have been way funnier. Too bad the meme didn’t exist yet then.
And that’s only after you found the right video codec, and replaced your sound card because yours was outdated.
Sigh… newbies have no appreciation of Internet culture.
This is a “'90s Rickroll:”
(According to knowyourmeme.com it’s actually from the mid-2000s; before that, bait-and-switch links weren’t really a thing.)
https://web.archive.org/web/19990429035254/http://www.hamsterdance.com/
No, in the 90s a rickroll was goatse, tubgirl, lemon party, blue waffle, pain Olympics, etc
Google them at your own risk
No, only goatse existed in the '90s, and that’s 1999. Everything else on your list was from the 2000s.
Imagine being the historian researching these for dates…
Knowyourmeme.com is the Rosetta Stone of our time.
Not even joking about that.
Wasn’t it a duck roll back then?
Nobody likes a pedant
Excuse me, good sir, but your premise is incorrect. I do.