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Date	Process	Result
June 4, 2007	Articles for deletion	Deleted
April 2, 2008	Articles for deletion	Kept
December 3, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed
June 15, 2013	Good article reassessment	Delisted
Current status: Delisted good article

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MTV Europe Music Awards

The MTV Europe Music Awards have been rickrolled when 4chan, as well as several other forums (I believe ultimate guitar forum actually started it), voted to have Rick Astley nominated. He accepted the nomination and may quite possibly win, which would be probably the largest rickroll ever.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.106.103.47 (talk • contribs) 01:53, 4 October 2008

2020 updates needed

Rickrolling hit new heights in 2020 with both Rick Astley https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/haucpf/ive_found_a_few_funny_memories_during_lockdown/fv505w1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3 and youtube https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/k98r41/i_rickrolled_youtube/ being rickrolled.

User:Devonian Wombat if it's ok, can you add this [1] [2]? on 'ongoing usage section, where youtube got rickrolled. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.151.185.63 (talk) 02:29, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Facebook Rick rolling

Recently I've been on facebook and I found a popular new trend, there is a facebook group called "... See More" and when you make a really long comment or post, it says at the bottom "... See More" if you want to read the rest of the post or comment, and people have instead made comments and post where they write a sentence usually containing important information and cutting it of by tagging the "... See More" group instead. When you click on the link for the group the cover photo is a picture of Rick Ashley from the video. There are also different variations such as groups called "... See Less", "... Read More", "... See Translation" and "view post" . There is also a different type where they have taken advantage of the fact that when you tag groups the text is blue and links to websites are also blue and they named groups after website links and tagging it trying to fool people, these groups also has Rick Ashley from the "Never Gonna Give You Up" video as a cover photo. I thought this should be added to this article. Anzio Langeveldt (talk) 16:44, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It turns out Facebook is deleting these groups since it is tagged everywhere and is against their community policies of spam Anzio Langeveldt (talk) 18:08, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]