Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)

Rick Astley · 1.8B views · 2009-10-25 · 3:34

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Overview

The official music video for Rick Astley's 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up, the song behind the Rickroll internet prank.

On Hacker News

HN mostly uses it as a Rickroll joke or as a stand-in test URL for tools handling YouTube links.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2013–2023

Topics

Music performance & songs Internet culture & memes

What people said

mtmail · 2023-12 · Reference
My current work-around is [LINK] and then click 'clean viewer'. Changing a video URL from www.youtube.com to www.pwnyoutube.com redirects there. Example [VIDEO]
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gpm · 2022-09 · Joke / meme
"Stable Diffusion" is referring to one specific set of models, which were trained on a dataset including some porn. The official implementation has a second model that detects pornography, and replaces outputs including it with a picture of this dude [VIDEO] (Not kidding). Removing that is a really simple a one line change in the official script.
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chrismorgan · 2022-09 · Reference
I believe this is about allowing this kind of markup (that exists on old web pages that haven’t been updated for a long time) to still work: <embed [VIDEO] … by roughly translating it into <iframe [VIDEO] Probably also the <object> equivalent, maybe only that and not <embed>, I’m not sure. I never had a great deal to do with those two tags. I don’t know why it has to be done this way. I’d have thought that without this extra code it’d roughly fall back to being an iframe on the original URL, and then YouTube could just check if it’s in a frame and behave as an embed instead of the main UI. But there’s probably a reason why they’ve all done it this kind of way.
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Sources

Video by Rick Astley, played through YouTube.

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