#rickroll
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #rickroll from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #rickroll
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-17 18:55 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-17 18:55 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-17 18:55 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~8271 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 20:00
Languages: English (33) · French (2) · Italian (1) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.4
Top of the latest posts
@kemona_halftau best #Rickroll for years!
@inthehands and, if they don’t do it, there must be some talented person here that can do an epic edit and make it for us. #RickRoll #GenX
Here's a rather weird #phishing scenario I encountered this weekend. I received this phishing email yesterday afternoon: #infosec #PSU #RickRoll (yes, the tags give away what's weird about this phish, but read on if you want details) 1/?
What “rickroll” means
WikipediaRickrolling is an Internet meme and prank involving the unexpected appearance of the music video for the 1987 hit song "Never Gonna Give You Up", performed by the English singer Rick Astley. The meme is a type of bait and switch and commonly uses a disguised hyperlink that leads to the music video instead of what was expected. The meme has also extended to using the song's lyrics in unexpected contexts or singing it during public events. After the origin of the meme in 2007 and the height of its
“Rickrolling” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#rickroll across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #rickroll straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/rickroll