Right, let's get to the good stuff. You came here to rickroll someone, and we are delighted to help. The single most important rule of a great rickroll is that the landing has to be clean — no ads, no pop-ups, no ten-second pre-roll for a mattress company. That's exactly why rickroll.uk/watch exists: you send it, it fills the screen, it plays. That's the whole magic trick.
The classic: just send the link
Ninety percent of rickrolls are simply a link, disguised as something the target actually wants. “Mate, here's that spreadsheet you asked for” — rickroll.uk/watch. “Found the fix for that bug, it's in this thread” — rickroll.uk/watch. The trick is context. The more the link looks like it belongs, the harder they fall for it. Drop it in a group chat pretending it's the meeting notes and watch the confusion roll in.
The sneaky QR code
Print a QR code that points at rickroll.uk/watch and stick it somewhere curious people can't resist — the office fridge, a lamppost, the bottom of a “free stuff” box. Everyone who scans it gets got. This one has a lovely delayed fuse: you're not even in the room when it goes off.
The rubber ducky (for the truly committed)
If you own a USB Rubber Ducky — one of those little gadgets that acts like a keyboard and types out whatever it's told — you can automate the whole thing. The idea is simple: point your ducky at rickroll.uk/watch so it opens the page, wait a couple of seconds for it to load, and have it press Enter. Because our video page treats any keypress as “yes please, sound and fullscreen,” that single Enter forces the video full screen with the audio on. Plug it into a friend's unlocked laptop while they grab a coffee, and by the time they're back, they've been rickrolled with zero clicks on their part.
A few golden rules
These are just examples, and they're meant purely for good-natured fun. A rickroll should leave everyone laughing, so keep it kind: only pull the physical-access tricks on people who'll find it funny, only on machines you're actually allowed to touch, and never anywhere it could cause real disruption — not on someone's work presentation two minutes before they go on stage, not on kit that isn't yours to mess with. Get consent where it matters, read the room, and don't be the person who turns a harmless gag into an actual problem. Done right, a rickroll is the friendliest prank there is. Keep it that way.