#rickrolling
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #rickrolling from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-12 17:14 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-12 17:14 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #rickrolling.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-12 17:14 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~32450 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 11:00
Languages: English (29) · German (7) · Spanish (1) · Italian (1) · Catalan (1) · American English (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.6
Top of the latest posts
History: The song "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley was published on July 27th, 1987 - 29 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ #Music #PopMusic #RickAstley #RickRolling #NeverGonnaGiveYouUp
My house. Rick Rolled. My nephew. 😂 I am not making this up. He sent me a video of him walking frantically around the house saying, "somebody help me, I can't make the music stop!" I figured out what happened: I was playing a playlist on a
El #Rickrolling Vive! La lucha sigue! Un heroe crea un script que devuelve la llamada a los números de spam y los atrapa en un bucle sin fin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zyng3lqNAs
What “rickrolling” 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) →#rickrolling across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #rickrolling 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/rickrolling