A quick test

[andrewducker]

via princealbert, who made me giggle a lot.

Comments

[fub.livejournal.com]

Clever! It took me some time to clue in on it. ;)

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Gah! Fell for it. I was trying to think of one word that would be the opposite of all of them.

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

Someone really needs to find a new rick-roll. It's like anything on the gets an automatic rickroll test as soon as I see it.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Hah! Totally got caught my that.

[tysolna]

I started laughing 10 seconds in, and have not stopped yet. Nice one!

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Is you really the opposite of me? What about 'not me'?

[soon_lee]

Hey, no fair!

(Yes, fell for it too)

[gwendally.livejournal.com]

Ha! I figured it out. But I didn't escape completely, because now I've got the song stuck in my head anyway.

[lizw.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, you're the first person ever to rickroll me successfully! No idea how I escaped it for so long, but there you go.

[andrewducker]

Yay!

I managed to get 3/4 of the way through it myself before I realised what was happening. And then I giggled at the cleverness of the way it's put together - having it be a countdown adds enough pressure that I was so focussed on working out the puzzle that I ignored all of the context. It's a pretty good demonstration of how focus means we lose sight of the bigger picture.