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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.world · 2 years ago

House Judiciary Republicans slammed for 'morally bankrupt' Epstein 'Rickroll' prank

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House Judiciary Republicans slammed for 'morally bankrupt' Epstein 'Rickroll' prank

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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The House Judiciary GOP X account has been heavily criticised for pulling a 'rickroll' prank in connection with the released Epstein files.
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    Am I the only one who thinks that getting rick rolled is something that should’ve been stopped in like the 90s??

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      You mean before YouTube existed? Back when downloading a picture took minutes?

      A 90s Rick roll would have been someone putting the music video on VHS, then mislabeling it, then sharing it.

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        Tbf, waiting a day n a half for a video to load, only for it to be a Rick roll would have been way funnier. Too bad the meme didn’t exist yet then.

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          And that’s only after you found the right video codec, and replaced your sound card because yours was outdated.

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        Sigh… newbies have no appreciation of Internet culture.

        This is a “'90s Rickroll:”

        (According to knowyourmeme.com it’s actually from the mid-2000s; before that, bait-and-switch links weren’t really a thing.)

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          https://web.archive.org/web/19990429035254/http://www.hamsterdance.com/

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        No, in the 90s a rickroll was goatse, tubgirl, lemon party, blue waffle, pain Olympics, etc

        Google them at your own risk

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          No, only goatse existed in the '90s, and that’s 1999. Everything else on your list was from the 2000s.

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            Imagine being the historian researching these for dates…

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              Knowyourmeme.com is the Rosetta Stone of our time.

              Not even joking about that.

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          Wasn’t it a duck roll back then?

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        Nobody likes a pedant

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          Excuse me, good sir, but your premise is incorrect. I do.

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