546 million views

Idunno, man. I saw the official link so many times that I ended up memorizing part of the URL. I definitely see it more often than this one.

Because zoomer normies that went to kindergarten when this meme originated keep linking the official video. Please keep the meme's legacy alive and use the normal link, thanks.

it's literally the same video with a different name

And it's not only Yea Forums as a whole, but more of moot himself. Since he was the one to set all links to lead to that song for one day (replacing the duckroll that was going then with a rickroll). Miss our faggot so goddamn much.

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didn't it top the charts in '88 or whatever? still would've had loads.
honestly fuck this meme. ruined a good song for me.

what meme?

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>and OP video is the 1st result if you search it on youtube/google
The other video was unlisted for a long time (meaning it couldn't be accessed by being searched for, but only if linked to) so almost all of its views originate from genuine rickrolls and not from people searching it to listen to the song (the video had amassed 70 million views in like 2010 already).

that's pretty impressive, 70m rickrolls

10 mil

is this a joke

Wasn't it actually this guy?
reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mx53y/i_am_youtube_user_cotter548_aka_the_inventor_of/

I often wonder what it was like to be the first person Rick Roll'd. Like I know about Rick Rolls now, but imagine just going about your daily business online and someone links you somewhere and it turns out to be a fucking Rick Astley video

Zoomers know what a Rick Roll is, there was even a Rick Roll revival a couple years ago where zoomers all started Rick Rolling eachother
t. actual zoomer

Who the fuck is moot?

Like 50k

It would have been used in the album that made vaporwave well known instead of Macintosh Plus

i was on Yea Forums when it was the meme of the moment, i remember it going from funny to annoying and back to funny when people would still catch you with a new upload after you learned to recognize the original URL, silly meme but it's impressive how much brought rick astley's career back

Expected more desu

There are a million other Rick Roll videos. That vevo one is only nine years old, while the original Rick Roll meme is from 2007. There are probably well over a billion collective plays on youtube, especially when you consider youtube videos that look like something else (for example, I remember when the duck song was popular someone made a video which started off as the duck song, then when it goes "hey (bum bum bum) got any grapes" the uploader switched the line to "hey (bum bum bum) you got rick roll'd) before the video changed to Never Gonna Give You Up
The song as a whole collectively definitely has more views than Gangam Style or Despacito

That's not the video that people used when the meme was a thing, in fact it was posted after the meme died

The last and best time I was rickrolled was back in 2010, I was listening to the Ace Attorney jazz album on Youtube and Never Gonna Give You Up was snuck into the track list
I wish I could find that video again

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just makes it more impressive, the real views must be very high up the charts like mr. trips said

you dumb fucking zoomer. this song has been a meme since the 90s. people would call other people and blast the song in the ear piece. or leave it on voice machines. it was a meme long before moot

>he took the bait
dense boomer

>The first known instance of a rickroll occurred in May 2007 on Yea Forums, Yea Forums's video game board, where a link to the Rick Astley video was claimed to be a mirror of the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV (which was unavailable due to heavy traffic). The joke was confined to Yea Forums for a very brief period.[1]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling

2,500,000 give or take

>tfw watched Rick perform at Haydock Race Park in 2011

some of us here remember when this song was released. it wasn't too bad for a Stock Aitken and Waterman track. im sure without it becoming a meme it'd still have a respectable number views, possibly in the tens of millions. easily.