Get famo and be on TV with Paris Hilton

Friday, April 11th, 2008

MTV is 5 days into parisbff.com, where you, yes you, can fight to become BFF-4-LIFE w/ Paris Hilton by amassing votes… lots of votes. Create a site profile and accumulate votes. The more popular you are the greater your chance of getting on the show! Pretty smart — pre-selling viewers for an American Idol-style run-off. [...]

College Basketball rickroll is fake

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

BREAKING NEWS: College Basketball Game Rickroll is fake, edited together by a random college student. And, uh, no one is surprised. Except, you know, the New York Times, and LAist, and everyone who reblogged them. They need to be reading this blog for real. [1] …an Astley impersonator wandered through the gym and, “lip-synched and [...]

Rick Astley on Rickroll

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

BREAKING MEMENEWS: LAtimes snags exclusive interview about rickroll, from the Rick himself. “I think it’s just one of those odd things where something gets picked up and people run with it,” Astley said. “But that’s what brilliant about the Internet.” Saying he thought “Anonymous” Rickrolling Scientology was “hilarious” “Hilarious” is British for “epic,” right?

This week in Rickroll: Firefoxin, live rickrolling, mainstream press

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Update: Perez Hilton picks up that Rick Astley will be touring in the UK this year (!!) We smelled a rickroll revival 3 weeks ago… and a revival we’ve had. A roundup of the latest in rickrolling: Search trends for “rickroll” and “rick roll” circa March 3rd, 2008: vs. today, March 25th, 2008… Out of [...]

Reddit rickrolls themselves

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

#2 story on Reddit w/ 865 points as of press time is a rickroll! Yeah, I clicked it, but I didn’t see squat cuz I use RickrollDB. Help spread the blacklist gospel on reddit & Digg. We weren’t lying when we said Rickroll is Back…

Rickroll: Back With a Vengeance

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

What was oldmeme is new again… rickroll is back (don’t click that). We’ve noticed your Rickroll Shuts Up Baby video (76k views); we’ve noticed your dance remix MP3s. The RickrollDB blacklist has seen a surge in traffic & submissions over the last month, and they are largely being spotted on sites other than YouTube, which [...]