The Legendary Song That Became the Rick Roll | The Story Of
Why the open web links it
Explores the origins of the Rick Astley 'Never Gonna Give You Up' song and the Rickroll meme phenomenon.
Linked by 10 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including wikipedia.org, openculture.com, mymodernmet.com, laughingsquid.com, mjtsai.com.
Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Rickrolling.