Never gonna give you up never gonna let you down… Fuck how is this my brains first thought, thats insane.
Seriously I didn’t even need the hint. My first impression when I saw all those empty letters was that there’s no way I can guess this. Take a stab at it anyway, shed a tear as I realized that I guessed it first fucking try. Only then I see the hint. I think Rick Astley secretly controls society.
Exact same for me. Crazy.
We need to assassinate Rick Astley
Did anyone else get it without even noticing the hint at the bottom?
Yep. If you’re on the internet for long enough, you pretty much develop a sixth sense for when you’re being rickrolled. As soon as I saw that ‘Never’ fit, I knew what was up.
Yup, same, I didn’t even look for hints, just tried those lyrics…and groaned! Just like loosing the game, once you’ve been sucked into the vortex you’ll never get out!
And yes, I just lost the game.
I lost the game.
You deserve it.
OK fuck sake this got me, gonna bring the song up now
I didn’t even need it to tell that it’s an 80’s song lyrics
Is this Loss?
We’re no strangers to that meme. But you know the rules, and so do I.
This is not loss.
Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more.
This isn’t Facebook you know
I didn’t thanks for letting me know
MJ
That song came out in 1980s?? I always thought it came out at around early 2000s because of those memes.
no.
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nooooooooooo
1987 to be precise. It was quite a popular song when it was released; it was a chart topper in 25 countries. It was played for weeks on the radio and the single sold like hot cakes.
What’s even wilder: it was Rick Astley’s first solo hit. He had done duets and sang on other people’s tracks, but that was his first single from his debut studio album. And it went straight to the fucking moon.
He had a fair few hits and ‘retired’ in 1993. He was 27 at the time! He returned in 2000, and in 2007 the rickroll became a thing. And the rest you know.
As an 80’s kid, you can imagine it was wild to see kids using one of my favorite songs ever as a meme. I’m just glad Astley himself took the jokes in a good nature and is enjoying his continued career because of it. Gotta be even stranger for him to see the song get back to this level of popularity well over 20 years post release because of a dumb internet joke.
What’s even wilder: it was Rick Astley’s first solo hit. He had done duets and sang on other people’s tracks, but that was his first single from his debut studio album. And it went straight to the fucking moon.
That is wild, had no idea. Was he well known as a non solo singer at the time with lot of anticipation of his first solo?
Well if you look at his musical career, it’s relatively short prior to 1987. So not really.
He started singing in a church choir when he was 10. He played drums in some local bands and left school at 16. He started playing drums for bands that played clubs. In 1985, he became lead singer for the soul band FBI and was noticed by a record producer. His first real songs were singig on ‘Let It Be’ by a charity group Ferry Aid, after the Zeebrugge ferry disaster. That was march 1987. Followed that up by a duet with Lisa Fabien in may. And in august 1987 Never Gonna Give You Up was released, which he’d actually recorded on january 1 st that year.
It’s certainly… not common for someone to go from ‘shy guy playing drums in a nightclub band’ to having a chart topping hit in 25 countries in less than five years. He managed to actually have a pretty good career after that, though none of his work will ever reach the lofty heights of Never Gonna Give You Up in terms of sheer popularity. And the fact that the song managed to be a hit, disappear, and come back ten times as strong because of a joke is like a fluke on top of a fluke.
Rick finds a magic lamp with a genie in it in 2007 and is asked what he wants for his 1 wish.
He says to be famous again.
The original did. He did a remix that came out in the early 2000s.
Im actually proud of myself for not getting it after looking at the comments
The power of memes, haha
Memes deserve their own academic field, says an ardent nerd.
Pasting Rick’s face over Vanna’s gives it away. Bunch of idiots pretending this is amazing in the comments… Rick’s face is literally right there morons
I didn’t look at that until I saw your comment. And looking at it now, I see why I didn’t notice it - it looks like a blurry mess. But yeah, even so blurry it is a massive hint. I reckon you can probably turn down the sensitivity on your moronometer though.
Wow my eyesight is so bad I didn’t notice
I love the alt text on your images, top notch
How does one see alt text? I’ve seen people reference it on here, but I have no idea how to see it
I don’t know if there is a way you’re supposed to be able to do it, but one thing you can do is right-click the image and pick Inspect from the context menu, which will open a panel with the HTML of the image highlighted, and part of that will be the alt text if there is any.
Also I have a Firefox extension that adds “Copy Alt text” to the context menu when you right-click an image. I’ve used that and pasted into a text editor, which usually works as well.
Both of those are inconvenient, but at least you can find it. But there should be a button on the image to view it easily like there is on Mastodon.
Ahh, yeah, I’m on mobile. I rarely ever use the laptop outside of school
Are there Lemmy mobile apps? I don’t even know, I only access it via the browser. But if there are, maybe request that feature.
There are multiple. There’s Voyager, also available as a PWA if you want to stick to using your browser. I personally use Thunder most days.
The “official” app, made by the main lemmy dev is Jerboa, but like most first party fediverse apps, it’s barebones compared to third party offerings.
ETA:
I’m on Android. Don’t really know about iPhone options.I think Voyager is also on iOS? The default style at least is iOS, the Android style (iirc) is still beta.
Though I don’t have iPhone, just using Voyager on Android.
I can vouch for Voyager, it’s great
Well, I’m on a mobile browser and I don’t know how to do it either…
I’m using Thunder on mobile and opening images shows their alt text under the image.
Some sites will show alt text when you hover your mouse over an image on PC as well.
Screen readers are the main use for alt text to describe the images to visually impaired users though.
In the Lemmy web UI in a browser, clicking the third button from the left (from the left it’s the upvote, downvote, then the page with a turned corner looking thing) will show the source code for a message. Below it’s colored green after having pressed it:
The “Alt text” is the part between the straight brackets, before the URL in the parentheses. So “img1”, “img2”, and “img3” in the screenshot - see how original they are!?:-P
Only the best! Or… at least put the rest?:-)
I love that video just for the guest star.
always coming from hinder me up
Ricky Rolling right
