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... do people think Rickrolling is about not liking the song?
It's the punchline to successful trolling. It's the reveal, after you've been wound-up by some bullshit story, and clicked expecting an article or news footage or whatever. It's the opaque version of a shittymorph story that ends with the Undertaker throwing Mankind onto a table nineteen feet below. The tension, the emotional investment, gets yanked out from under you. It's the comedy version of a jump scare.
But this being the internet, a lot of people Did Not Get It, and thought the entire gag was the mild annoyance of unexpected exposure to some above-average pop hit.