Back in my day, Rickrolling meant something, stood for something. It meant that you had gotten to an opportunity where people wanted a link to something, and instead of posting the helpful link they expected, you served them a specific Youtube video.

Nowadays, people are making memes with Rick Astley’s face on it and calling that “Rickrolling”

You fools. Idiots. Moronous children.

People meant to click on that link. There’s no surprise, to essence of fuckery, nobody was expecting anything else.

Even the memes where it’s like “look in the corner” aren’t a Rickroll, since nobody was expecting anything specific there too. Those are just memes about Rickrolling. Which, are alright in my book, but it’s dishonest and smarmy to call them Rickrolls.

The essence of a Rickroll is that people were expecting a normal, innocent link to something that was relevant to the discussion, and they didn’t get that, they got a relatively good obscure pop song.

Seeing all of these people calling clearly not Rickrolling events “Rickrolling” is making me feel elderly, and I am twenty three years old. Despite being 23, I will die on this hill demanding people respect tradition[.](https://imgur.com/cXA7XxW)