Comments on: The Astley iPhone Virus: Whatever Must It Be Like To Be Rick Astley?

By: zidaane

zidaane — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:19:17 +0000

you've been balk bear'd

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:06:50 +0000

At what point do we declare the 4chan actually has "won the Internet"? Would this be like crossing beams (memes?) in Ghostbusters, causing the Internet to then implode?

By: josh_speed

josh_speed — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:13:29 +0000

With the licensing fees he must have made–providing he secured a good deal with his management–he should be rolling in it around now. And the 'rickroll', presumably meant to humiliate both the victim and Astley, actually increases awareness of his music and proves the adage about 'no such thing as bad press'.

By: hman

hman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:58:43 +0000

Huh!
"He proclaimed in an interview that "Terence Trent D'Arby was dead…he watched his suffering as he died a noble death…"
RIP then, TTD.

By: DorothyMantooth

DorothyMantooth — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:37:53 +0000

He calls himself Sananda Maitreya, now!

By: hman

hman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:33:26 +0000

I don't know why, but every time I see something about Rick Astley, it makes me miss Terence Trent D'Arby.

By: DorothyMantooth

DorothyMantooth — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:20:36 +0000

I still get warm fuzzies remembering how, when that song first came out, everyone went from assuming that he must look like Barry White to wondering if he really is that dude that was in Grease 2.

By: rod_townsend

rod_townsend — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:05:19 +0000

I'd be trying to figure out how to monetize the situation.

By: hockeymom

hockeymom — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:01:09 +0000

I always liked that song.