Gregory's ServerActually cannot believe this. After 13 years, Sony/BMG have decided to take down Rick Astley's "Never gunna give you up" due to a dispute with Youtube over ad royalties.
It's completely blocked globally. Actual end of an era.
 @LumiKlovstad @vegetablegremlin because to be fun at parties, one must trust everyone else there to not be fucking with one    @eonity [ nodding ] no doubt you have the album already and dont need to worry about it being pulled down @eonity @vegetablegremlin At first it was just funny getting Rick Rolled but over the years the song actually grew on me. @vegetablegremlin I would be banned from my instance if I were to say what I felt right now after clicking the link.    @vegetablegremlin I don't need to click it, cause I can already hear it in my head 😎 @vegetablegremlin the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people to rickroll themselves @vegetablegremlin Genius move. Just straight in there with the direct link and people still click it. You are a master.   @vegetablegremlin of course I'm gonna click on it, I love this song. It's not a rick roll if I want to listen to it    @vegetablegremlin But the era of pathetic music industry management continues. They long lost me as a customer anyway (rootkit on Audio CDs was the boiling point) apart from small independent labels & directly sold content by band/musicians. At least in Germany you sadly still pay them money automatically when buying anything that could potentially be used to copy music.   @vegetablegremlin nice try. You almost got me there. Thank god my shitass internet didn’t load the video right away.  @vegetablegremlin oh gods that's so awful. Just another cultural cornerstone of the internet taken away because corps can't play nice. @vegetablegremlin Nice try. I'll give you points for the ballsy attempt, but not clicking the link... 🤣🤣🤣  @vegetablegremlin You're lucky this was just a meta-rickroll. I was about to grab my goddamn torch and pitchfork and start marching on the Googleplex if they took away my beloved video. On a sidenote, I wonder how much Astley makes from youtube views. @LibertyForward1 very little, apparently the performer's share of the sound recording copyright is rather small but he does not seem bothered @vegetablegremlin okay hear me out, this version is the best background hype music: https://youtu.be/HIcSWuKMwOw @vegetablegremlin I'd just like to say that I copied and sent this to 2 friends over WhatsApp and *BOTH OF THEM* have fallen for it. @vegetablegremlin Does it count as getting rickrolled if I clicked on it because I unironically like that song? :is_this: also I forgot that he was actually a child when he recorded that, great voice for a 12yo I heard BMG were a bit fucky with some of their artists lately, so I believed this. The embed also said unavailable… tl;dr: I actually fell for it, lmao.  @vegetablegremlin oooh so nearly got me Altho actually I clicked anyway cos I like that song 😸     |
@vegetablegremlin still not clicking