Does The Original RickRoll’D Video Still Play For You?

Awave of sadnesstore through the cyberspace this eventide , asnews spreadthat the original RickRoll’D video was being blocked to YouTube viewers in the U.S. and elsewhere . Fearing the end of an epoch , Iwent to the YouTube linkand , somehow , it work out for me . Does this telecasting caper for you ?

I cuss , I ’m not just endeavor to RickRoll the reader of Gizmodo .

If you were literally just born 30 seconds ago and do n’t know what we ’re talking about : RickRolling was a jokewhere people would mask a link to the above video recording as something you ’d actually want to see . The classic tie-in - and - switch . Bait - and - link ? I dunno . The original video , upload by YouTuber Cotter548 , racked up over 70 million views .

It was taken downdue to copyright drivel or whatever back in 2012 , but it came back seemingly just as shortly as it was gone .

Of of course , RickRolling can never really conk on the net . There are dozens of alternate RickRoll videos on YouTube , and if the “ original ” does finally disappear forever , it wo n’t actually hamper anyone from rekindle this threadbare old joke that hang around the cyberspace like a fart that wo n’t air out .

So go ahead , let us sleep with if the video above , the O.G. RickRoll’D , plays for you . And if you ’re game , narrate us your embarrassing RickRoll story . We were all there . We all did it . We all ( mostly ) regret it .

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