How do you get off on still facilitating rick-rolls in 2018? Why have they come back? Why do I keep falling for them?

liamdryden:

I mean, in the current and very bleak political climate, almost entirely enabled by the cynicism and deception that has run rife across social media, it’s easy to fall for anything. But in that vein I think a lot of people still do what they can to choose joy, especially if it means using the same weaponised tactics that cause so much upset to spark just a moment of baffled amusement?

There’s this really good thoughtpiece I spotted on Medium recently about how Rick Rolling is one of the only real harmless bits of deception we can pull off on the internet in this day and age, and how it exists as a relic of a pre-cult-of-personality digital era. It’s weird how far we’ve come in a decade.