{"id":28757,"date":"2024-04-01T10:21:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T14:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=28757"},"modified":"2024-04-01T10:47:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T14:47:46","slug":"the-greatest-april-fools-day-prank-probably-not-but-its-got-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/04\/the-greatest-april-fools-day-prank-probably-not-but-its-got-longevity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest April Fools Day Prank?  Probably Not. But It&#8217;s Got Longevity."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was April 1st, 2008 that YouTube pulled a fast one on us for April Fool&#8217;s Day.\u00a0 It tricked users into clicking video links that actually took them to this song.\u00a0 Several other websites had the same idea, creating an unintentional, internet-wide April Fool&#8217;s joke we&#8217;ve come to know and love as &#8220;Rickrolling&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the 1987 hit single for British artist Rick Astley.\u00a0 \u00a0Why Rick Astley?\u00a0 Why this song?\u00a0 Songfacts has the explanation.\u00a0 Before there was Rickrolling, there was Duckrolling.\u00a0 It started online, in a video game group chat when the owner made the word &#8220;egg&#8221; autocorrect to &#8220;duck&#8221;, turning &#8220;eggroll&#8221; into &#8220;duckroll&#8221;.\u00a0 An image of a duck with wheels showed up, and users had fun tricking others into clicking links that led to the picture of the duck.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Astley came into play in May of 2007, when a user on the video game forum posted a link claiming to be the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto IV game trailer, but actually led to\u00a0 the famous &#8220;Never Gonna Give You Up&#8221; video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Duckrolling&#8221; changed into &#8220;Rickrolling,&#8221; and a new internet phenomenon was born.<\/p>\n<p>By the time April Fools&#8217; Day rolls around in 2008, over 25 million people click on YouTube&#8217;s copies of the video.\u00a0 Well played internet.\u00a0 Well played.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dQw4w9WgXcQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was April 1st, 2008 that YouTube pulled a fast one on us for April Fool&#8217;s Day.\u00a0 It tricked users into clicking video links that actually took them to this song.\u00a0 Several other websites had the same idea, creating an unintentional, internet-wide April Fool&#8217;s joke we&#8217;ve come to know and love as &#8220;Rickrolling&#8221; It&#8217;s the","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":28761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[6004,6007,611,5031,6006,6005],"class_list":["post-28757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-april-fools-day","tag-never-gonna-give-you-up","tag-pranks","tag-rick-astley","tag-rickroll","tag-rickrolling"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 04:46:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/04\/the-greatest-april-fools-day-prank-probably-not-but-its-got-longevity\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28762,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28757\/revisions\/28762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}