Survey of Rickrolling in Academic Literature [pdf]

xrd · 2024-06-15T15:42:53 1718466173

Never forget how Oregon legislators did it. Epic.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/04/13/135385998...

blobcode · 2024-06-15T15:29:10 1718465350

A mildly interesting note that this paper was submitted as part of SIGBOVIK (http://www.sigbovik.org/), a collection of similarly funny papers.

pmags · 2024-06-15T16:23:06 1718468586

One of the early assignments for an introduction to scientific computing course I teach has a Rickroll link -- I added it as a light-hearted way to see who's actually working through the materials in a detailed way.

kleiba · 2024-06-15T17:39:52 1718473192

Back in the 2000s:

- Trick your friend into clicking on that interesting link

- They get to enjoy good ole Rick Astley's baritone voice and shoulder padded jacket on youtube

In 2024:

- Trick your friend into clicking on that interesting link

- Phew, saved by two minutes of pre-video ads!

pfdietz · 2024-06-15T18:30:41 1718476241

If you ask Rick Astley for a copy of the movie "Up" you will have presented him with an impossible dilemma.

sroussey · 2024-06-15T15:26:35 1718465195

Half expected this link to go elsewhere…

tsumnia · 2024-06-15T15:56:50 1718467010

They were cheeky enough to include it in a footnote on "academic pranks"

ashton314 · 2024-06-15T19:32:27 1718479947

I love all the little Easter eggs that make their way into academic papers. 42 is now firmly entrenched of course as the “default number“ in virtually all examples. And paper that I have under review, I tried sneaking in a few references to Zork.

RecycledEle · 2024-06-15T16:53:06 1718470386

Rickrolling was not born in the early-2000's as the author says. It was alive and well in the late 1990's, at least at U.T. Arlington.

frontalier · 2024-06-15T17:05:39 1718471139

[citation needed]

kleiba · 2024-06-15T17:35:42 1718472942

A simple web search would have gotten you there: https://tinyurl.com/arlington-multimedia

RecycledEle · 2024-06-17T04:05:44 1718597144

> [citation needed]

I'm sorry. I didn't save screen-shots in 1997.

I do remember that there were Rick Astley videos uploaded to YouTube under throwaway accounts for years before Rick Astley started uploading his own videos to YouTube.

tekla · 2024-06-15T17:43:46 1718473426

I'm calling BS, I was there for the Duckroll.

m0llusk · 2024-06-15T15:57:33 1718467053

This could be a great target for machine learning driven automation.