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A Metal State of Mind

In popular internet meme culture no meme has become as big as the infamous ‘Rick-Roll’.  For those not in the know, when you ‘rick-roll’ someone, you trick them into watching, listening, reading, or doing anything that has to do with Rick Astley’s hit song “Never Gonna Give You Up”.  The gag originally started when a Youtube user wanted to play a joke on a bunch of Halo fans by creating a video promising footage of the upcoming Halo 3 game and instead the video quickly cut to footage of the turbo-cheesy video for “Never Gonna Give You Up”.  Hilarity of tons of pissed off Halo fans ensued.  Since then it has become common throughout the whole of the internet to this day to squeeze in a Rick-Roll when ever possible.  Some jokes are just timeless.

It wasn’t long before people started solely using the song for practical joking purposes and just started…

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