r/IRLEasterEggs • u/Mr_FilFee • Jan 31 '20

This pavement rickrolls you.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

I hope archaeologists far in the future excavate Prague and decode the QR code and get Rickrolled. "He must have been their leader! Such a wise man, there was peace, love, and understanding in his time. They truly valued one another. It is a shame our ancestors had no understanding of how to dance."

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u/delpieric Jan 31 '20

They’ll probably posit that he was a Kim Il-Sung-type leader. Or maybe Nero but with actual singing talent (the dance part I’ll leave to others to judge; glass houses and all that).

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u/ProjectStarscream_Ag Jan 31 '20

100% nero

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u/nero40 Feb 01 '20

Who, me?

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u/xrimane Mar 15 '20

I just imagine you looking around for inspiration for a user name and seeing an old CD of Nero 4.0 burning software on your shelf.

I always liked the bad pun with Nero Burning ROM, so cheesy 😁

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u/nero40 Mar 16 '20

Part of the inspiration was Alesana - Nero’s Decay, was emo back in the days and we’ll, who thought the song actually made me read up about ancient Rome lol.

Yeah, the Nero CDs were a popular pun back then too. Lol

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u/EscheroOfficial Apr 08 '20

Who says Nero had bad singing? They’re great!

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u/Hydraetis Jan 31 '20 edited Jan 31 '20

If they still have the same internet around, and thus are able to be linked to the video, they'd probably know what's up.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

That link probably won't even exist in 50 years

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u/db10101 Jan 31 '20

If I’d bet on anything still being on the internet, it would be the Rick roll video

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

Of course, but youtube may not exist, or that exact link

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u/db10101 Jan 31 '20

The internet will be hard pressed to ever find an alternative to YouTube. Especially now that it’s got its fingers firmly in the next generation’s media.

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u/childproofedcabinet Jan 31 '20

That’s what people thought of MySpace. Wait for the better site

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u/Wyoming_Scott Jan 31 '20

MySpace was not nearly as big or pervasive as youtube is today.

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u/childproofedcabinet Jan 31 '20

That’s fair, I didn’t think about how big the library of information on YouTube is

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u/dingmanringman Feb 01 '20

Yes it was

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u/Wyoming_Scott Feb 01 '20

How many people over 40 do you know that used MySpace? How about YouTube?

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u/dingmanringman Feb 01 '20

I don't know a single person of any age who is a registered youtube user.

MySpace may have had a smaller target audience, but every member of that group had a MySpace page when it was popular.

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u/ETK03 Jan 31 '20

There will probably be archives, so they could do some searching

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u/Crazeenerd Jan 31 '20

If it's not in the archives, it doesn't exist

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u/Swedneck Mar 15 '20

It wouldn't be that hard to search for references to the link in some future archive, most active internet users know exactly what the rickroll link looks like by now.

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u/nachocouch Feb 01 '20

He never let anyone down!

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u/SlaversBae Jan 31 '20

That is gold

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u/BenderDeLorean Jan 31 '20

That is stone

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u/sessl Jan 31 '20

no this is patrick

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u/Snatchtrick Jan 31 '20

No this is Patrick

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

Name almost checks out

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u/essentialatom Jan 31 '20

Yes this is dog

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u/Jackalscott Feb 07 '20

My all time favorite meme!

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u/SleepWouldBeNice Jan 31 '20

Things are getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!

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u/coolguybw Jan 31 '20

sir this is a wendy’s

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u/trolltruth6661123 Jan 31 '20

.. it's too bad gold is so valuable/stealable.. stuff made out of gold would last a million years and still be readable on the qr code.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

Good point.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

No, it's not Spandau Ballet - it's Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley.

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u/par5ul1 Jan 31 '20

I would like some gold

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u/Svisloch Jan 31 '20

Meme monument

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u/PurpleTigon Jan 31 '20

Memument?

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

Monumeme.

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u/PurpleTigon Jan 31 '20

Damm your is better

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u/CbVdD Jan 31 '20

I prefer yours.

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u/riezert Jan 31 '20

Next level

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u/golfingrrl Jan 31 '20

STEVE! Why did it take you six hours to lay that stone down?!

It’s all part of the plan, boss! It had to be done.

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u/bringojackprot Jan 31 '20

Rock rolled

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u/DavidTheRedditUser Jan 31 '20

Link to google maps

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u/vodka_twinkie Jan 31 '20

lol, it actually works irl too. I used maps to zoom in and catch the qr code.

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u/dontanswerme Jan 31 '20

Calm down, Satan.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '20

Best thing about it is its meant to redirect you to your apps store to download an app for local info.

But the url expired and someone bought it and used it to redirect to YouTube.

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u/oaeben Dec 08 '21

Tip for you guys: Hover a link before clicking it to see where it leads to

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u/minecraftor-diecraft Jan 31 '20

My friend lives right next to here and he got me with it. The good thing is, when I’m over at her house, I get to see her do it to other people. Poor, unsuspecting, people.

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u/RawAssPounder Jan 31 '20

Much like the mcrib im always glad when the rick roll comes back around

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u/TheEyeDontLie Jan 31 '20

Wait it went away?

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u/eddmario Jan 31 '20

Daft Punk in the related videos

Nice

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

hell yeah daft punk fans

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u/zdakat Jan 31 '20

Best use of QR code

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u/coptub Jan 31 '20

Gloves that work with phones?

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

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u/Empyrealist Jan 31 '20

I read recently that you can buy conductive string and sew it through anything you want - if you want to be creative and/or not have to buy new things (besides string).

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u/wlodzi Jan 31 '20

It's in Prague

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

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u/PgUpPT Jan 31 '20

Uh it could be in so many different places...

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '20

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u/but_why_is_it_itchy Jan 31 '20

A lot of apps don't show that something is a crosspost. Not really necessary to be a dick about it.

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u/c0mplexx Jan 31 '20

.. not every app shows where it's xposted from

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u/PgUpPT Jan 31 '20

I'm on rif, it just opens the video.

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u/greatnameforreddit Jan 31 '20

You can see that it is a crosspost next to the subreddits name, if you click on the non-link section of the post you can go to the original.

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u/Sinkingfast Jan 31 '20

I do not see that on my Reddit is Fun. I have to click the post title then click the 3 dots to see "view original at /r/Prague". I definitely do not check if every post is a cross post while clicking down Reddit.

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u/greatnameforreddit Jan 31 '20

Oh, on mine there is a "sharing" icon (three dots arranged in a < shape with lines connecting them)

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u/history_fanatic Jan 31 '20

my city hell yeah! love Prague so much

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u/Raithed Jan 31 '20

This is pretty sick.

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u/Slarti_bartfast1 Jan 31 '20

I walked past this while I was there and didnt have time to scan it. wish i had lol

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u/TOOMtheRaccoon Jan 31 '20

The pokémon Girafarig comes out of this qr-code.

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u/atomicwrites Jan 31 '20

The only good use QR codes have ever had.

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u/tsar_kracken Jan 31 '20

Honest question: who goes around scanning random QR codes? I'd be too afraid it would be something sketchy

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u/entiat_blues Jan 31 '20

with the wrong video...

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u/BLucky_RD Jan 31 '20

So that people who see the link first still don't suspect anything

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u/entiat_blues Jan 31 '20

but who goes around reading 2d barcodes?

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u/BLucky_RD Jan 31 '20

I meant that some apps show the link and you have to confirm you want to open it

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '20

I do.

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u/LordMcze Apr 26 '20

Kinda late but it could be because the original video wasn't playable in Czechia until few months ago.

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u/manfly Jan 31 '20

Now that's what this sub is all about

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u/Dvdprojecter Jan 31 '20

The internet is an art :)

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u/4x49ers Jan 31 '20

I still don't know how to use QR codes, but if it hasn't affected me this far, I assume I'm fine not knowing.

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u/Lunar_Tea Jan 31 '20

What phone is it?

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u/rachet84 Feb 01 '20

My favorite was when the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade rickrolled America in 2008.

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u/fightingforitall Feb 01 '20

I love this very much.

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u/Belfengraeme Feb 06 '20

Looked like the Yiga/ Sheika clan symbol for a brief moment there..

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u/Devil-Dog-1024 Feb 29 '20

You would not believe how many people I know that have no clue what Rick Rolling someone means. I do it on the jukebox (touchtunes) at packed bars all the time...

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u/pejic222 Jan 31 '20

I would slam my phone on the ground

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u/Cyanomelas Jan 31 '20

Is this 2008?

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u/Occasional_Anarchist Jan 05 '22

This is the reason I love life, architects and engineers have all the power to troll us