YouTube has granted singer Rick Astley a big comeback. Over the past year or so, the singer’s 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” has been the subject of an internet joke: when internet users click on ...

The official music video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" has hit a billion views on YouTube thanks to the viral Internet phenomenon of rickrolling. Astley's 1987 song hit YouTube on ...

Nearly 30 years ago, a gangly 21-year-old Rick Astley, his magnificent pompadour and his lovably geeky dance moves arrived on these shores from his native England armed with such hits as “Together ...

TikTokers have adapted the age-old internet trend of “RickRolling” to maximize the joke for the platform. Rickrolling began in the early 2000s on 4chan when a link that was supposed to send users to a ...

Singer Rick Astley tweeted today that it has been 30 years since he released the smash-hit song “Never Gonna Give You Up,” making this a pretty huge anniversary for one of the most inescapable ...

Anyone who's ever surfed the web has probably been victim to the global Rickrolling prank, where you click a link only to be taken to the 1980s hit "Never Gonna Give You Up." It was Rick Astley's ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. A single ...

Singer Rick Astley has gotten two paychecks for participating in the meme he inspired — the Rickroll. He agreed to do the gigs (a Virgin commercial and a float on the Macy’s Day Thanksgiving Parade) ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

“Buddy Holly” has become the new “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Gen Z managed to conjure up their own way of trolling their parents, friends, and even the deceased Margaret Thatcher with the new TikTok ...

Some trends and language patterns are so deeply embedded in the language and culture of the internet that even the most advanced language models struggle to fully extract or contextualize them. Humor, ...