All featured videos on YouTube’s linked to “RickAstley – Never Gonna Give You Up,” causing all users of the website who clicked on featured videos to be Rickrolled. Google’s practical jokes began a day early in 2012, with 8-Bit Google Maps, Chrome...
RickAstley performing Never Gonna Give You Up) shows what happens when a horse and buggy gets into an accident. YouTube has a tradition of celebrating April Fools Day as only the the largest worldwide video-sharing community can.
Meanwhile, YouTube Rickrolled all of its users that day by linking all its featured videos to RickAstley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up. Google has a long tradition of perpetrating April Fools' Day hoaxes.
LiveJournal is following suite by adding RickAstley to their Advisory Board. Happy April Fool's Day everyone, or, as we call it in Israel, Monday! But it does give me the opportunity to be awake (hopefully) before everyone else and report on how...