In 2008, Astley contributed to a live-action rickroll during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade when he emerged from inside a Cartoon Network float to sing his famous song. Since 2007, rickrolling has taken on a life of its own. The practice soon took on the name duckrolling. Suddenly 4chan users were posting bait-and-switch links that led people to a wheeled-duck image. This, of course, changed the word eggroll to duckroll, which created such an amusing mental image that someone photoshopped wheels onto a picture of a duck. In the mid-2000s, the then-director of the site, who is known as “moot,” decided to prank users by changing all instances of the word egg to duck. The rick part of rickrolling comes from Astley’s first name, but where does the roll part come from? It turns out that also started on 4chan, according to Know Your Meme. The first-ever rickroll involved a link promising to be a trailer for the game “Grand Theft Auto IV,” that instead directed excited gamers to the “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video. 2019: YouTube had an advertisement at the top of its home page for an Aquaman 2 movie, but clicking on the video would instead play a trailer for the Shazam! movie.The practice of rickrolling started in 2007 on the image board 4chan.However, all videos will have Snoopavision on a certain year far from now, such as a video with Snoopavision to be launched in 2081. 2016: YouTube teams up with rapper Snoop Dogg to launch "Snoopavision", a feature where you can watch videos in 360 degrees through the eyes of Snoop Dogg.Also, there was an "add music" button on every video which, if clicked, would actually play Sandstorm. 2015: When searching a song, there would be a message saying 'Did you mean Darude - Sandstorm by Darude'. Some of the trends included "Clocking", "Kissing Dad", and "Glub Glub Water Dance". 2014: YouTube announced that it was starting viral video trends, and users were allowed to submit ideas for trends or memes.A video of two presenters announcing the nominees streamed live for twelve hours. 2013: YouTube teamed up with newspaper satire company The Onion to claim that the video sharing website was launched as a contest which had finally come to an end, and would announce a winner of the contest when the site went back up in 2023.The spoof promotional video promised "It's the complete YouTube experience completely offline." 2012: Clicking on the image of a DVD next to the site logo led to a video about "The YouTube Collection", an option to order every YouTube video for home delivery on DVD, videocassette, Laserdisc, or Betamax tapes.2011: The site celebrated its "100th anniversary" with a "1911 button" and a range of sepia-toned silent, early 1900s-style films, including "Flugelhorn Feline", a parody of Keyboard Cat.YouTube claimed in a message that this was done in order to reduce bandwidth costs by $1 per second. 2010: YouTube temporarily released a "TEXTp" mode, which translated the colors in the videos to random upper case letters.As it gave instructions on how viewers could use it like turning a computer upside down. YouTube claimed that this was a new layout. 2009: When clicking on a video on the main page, the whole page turned upside down.2008: All the links to the videos on the main page were redirected to Rick Astley's music video "Never Gonna Give You Up", a prank known as " Rickrolling".YouTube featured an april fools prank on the site on April 1 of every year from 2008 to 2019.
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