Never Gonna Give You Up

How

about Never Gonna Give You Up?

Rick Astley.

Oh, no, that's not that one.

[laughs]

I was like, "They've added Rick, Never Gonna Give You Up."

That's one of my favorite bits.

Brilliant.

And do you know, do you have any idea how many songs there are in it?

Mm.

If you go with each line, so Never Gonna Give You Up, it's just one line.

Oh, my gosh.

If you recognize that name, I'm sorry.

Simon West directed things such as Rick Astley's music video, Never Gonna Give You Up.

Never gonna give you up.

This is actually his like

feature film debut.

He's not writing many new songs because they're shit.

People really love Never Gonna Give You Up.

Don't think he wrote a lot

back then either.

Yeah.

Never Gonna Give You Up was a banger.

So how about we use this QR code system, this barcode-y system and YouTube? And we'll call it Rickrolling, where you get people to scan it and it just goes to never going to give you up.

And if it catches on, but now you, I mean, I gave you a QR code on a key ring, which Rickrolls people.

And oh my God, released.

When people clicked on it, it was Rick Astley's song, Never Gonna Give You Up, right? And I mean, That sort of became this bait and switch prank that people used to do.

And so naturally from duck roll, people move to Rick roll.

Rick Astley, right? And Rick roll is an excellent example of a meme because it's not a particular thing, right? It's a process, right? You bait someone and then you wait for them to get angry.

... pl- I, we...

Yes, that's, uh, playing Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up-

Mm-hmm

... and getting somebody's attention focusing one direction and then hitting them with that.

It means during the time it's supported, how do you update it? Do you force your users to update and, like, do you have to put usability hurdles in front of them to do so, right? It's, it feels bad when you can't use your device until you go do a software update, but you should brick the device so it can't pl- stream music from the speaker, or it can't act until you update it because you're encouraging bad behavior that isn't about...

I don't care if a smart speaker doesn't work anymore 'cause someone hacked Mythos on it, and it just plays, you know, Rick, Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" all day.

That's a fine outcome.

Yeah.

It also welcomed meme coin, promposal, and Rickroll to its list of new words.

That's the internet prank that redirects an unsuspecting user to Rick Astley's nineteen eighty-seven music video, Never Gonna Give You Up.

Artificial intelligence with a big imprint on this year's update with five coding, AGI, and a new noun form of compute joining the dictionary.

The publisher says the new entries reflect terms and meanings that have demonstrated widespread use over time, offering what it called a window into the world today.