The Original Rickroll Video Is Gone From YouTube — mashable.com

One of the oldest, classic Internet memes has let us down and deserted us. The original music video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," the basis for the Rickrolling bait-and-switch meme, has been blocked by YouTube in several countries, including the United States. The video was first uploaded by YouTube user cotter548 on May 15, 2007 and was temporarily taken down due to copyright disputes once before, in 2012.

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