About

Rickroll.app makes rick roll links that look like stories on Tri-County News 9, a local TV station that doesn't exist. It's for pranking friends and coworkers who'd laugh about it. It's not for fooling anyone about real news or real people.

The video is Rick Astley's official "Never Gonna Give You Up" video, embedded from YouTube. We don't host it, and we aren't connected to Rick, his label or YouTube.

Privacy

When you make a link, we store the headline, subheadline, photo and section you chose, plus the time. That's all. No account, no email, no IP address.

We count page views, links made and videos played without cookies and without storing IP addresses, so we know whether anyone uses this. Cloudflare, which hosts the site, keeps standard server logs. Once Rick starts, you're on YouTube, and YouTube's privacy policy applies.

Report a link

If a link is used to harass someone, spread a real rumor or pretend to be a real station or person, send it to us and we'll take it down. Email report@rickroll.app with the link.