Seriously, what the fuck? Why is this still e-popular with retards? It's like those fucking nerds that run any half-decent joke into the ground and then just nerd sigh when you point out that while it was really funny when Brian the Dog put on a banana suit in order to cheer Peter the human up in some weird pop culture reference, it's not funny when you just yell "Peanut butter jelly time!". It's like that except Rickrolling was never funny. The first time it was just like "that's strange".
The thing is that it doesn't really even piss people off, so I don't get what the point is. I guess I can't speak for everyone, but as far as I'm concerned there is pretty much zero emotional reaction on my end. "Oh, really? Wow, I thought this would die by now" kind of sums it up every time that music starts up.
But I think the really scary thing about this is that the people doing this can't all be retards in the classical sense. I imagine my insurance agent rickrolling on the copany dime, some doctor that's inevitably going to be pulling some foreign material out of my body at some point forwarding some shitty link in an email to all his college buddies, and the tax agent who doesn't understand that by definition having an employer means I'm not self employed trying to "trick people" into watching a cheesy music video (Actually, maybe not the tax agent, because according to his supervisor that mother fucker is blind, which explains pretty much every goddamn thing about that little issue). Then these people punch out, go home and pretend they're normal human beings while they drive like fucking retards, have dinner with their families whilest discussing their day and falling asleep in front of High School Musical 2 (remember I said they weren't retarded in the classical sense).
The worst part about it is that it's completely pointless. It's not clever, it's not funny, infuriating, or even mildly annoying. There are no bragging rights involved in it; "Dude, I totally tricked like 15 people today by telling them to click on a link I said was one thing, but it took them to something totally different. Those idiots weren't prepared for my superior intellect at all." It's the passive aggressive equivalent of me fucking with people's cars so that instead of turning on when you turned the key it would blow up.
I think the next time I see someone in person I think might be one of these idiots I'll give them a taste of their own medicine. I'll fake for the high five and then totally punch them in the gut. Then, while they're on the ground trying to get the air back into their lungs I'll lean down and explain that it's awesomely devious because I totally tricked them into thinking they were getting one thing, when in reality they were getting something undesirable.
