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Jonnyprophet@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

YouTube ads have ruined the good, old-fashioned Rick Roll.

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YouTube ads have ruined the good, old-fashioned Rick Roll.

Jonnyprophet@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 7 months ago
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    A Rick Roll is a link to a domain that disables your ability to close your browser and maxes your volume.

    Youtube links have never been Rick rolls.

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      If seen a lot of pointless gatekeeping in my day but this one may take the cake for most meaningless.

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        7 months ago

        relevant username

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        I disagree. This is an important issue

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        Hmph, speak for yourself. I dunno how you sleep at night, what with all your illegitimate Rick rolls 'n such

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          I dunno how you sleep at night

          Very well, actually. You should check out !SleepTips@lemmy.world, it might change your life!

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            I hate you

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      I see someone doesn’t understand the definition of Rick Rolling…

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling

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        Dude… my kid will never get to experience this. I didn’t even know this existed. Every other one of the links in here was waiting for me to hit play, too.

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          LOL! What app are you using to give such a warning?

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            Sync, it was my reddit client for years

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          What app are you using? The dev clearly knows their shit

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      This is just false, I don’t know where you got this idea

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      You can’t do either of those things on modern web browsers lol, what are you talking about?

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        exactly, old-fashioned Rick Roll was dead long before youtube ads

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