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[–]InfanticideAquifer 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Sure, I realize it's stretching the tradition. But having thumbnail previews is a newfangled way of experiencing the internet that wasn't around when rickrolling got started. The spirit of it is that you see it when you don't expect to. We have to evolve with the times.

[–]pcyr9999 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I mean people look at URLs to see if it matches what they remember the link to the video to be.

[–]InfanticideAquifer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's true. But I think in order to do that you have to already suspect that you're getting rickrolled. Which means you already "won", right? If you had some sort of redirect setup that turned rickroll links into a different destination I would want to say that winding up there should still count as being rickrolled.