Rick Astley: A Remastered Video of ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ Freaks Fans Out
A 4K version of the ’80s Rick Astley hit, “Never Gonna Give You Up” is freaking people out. The iconic original video, which came out in 1987, features the then-21-year-old, red-headed Rick Astley in a warehouse belting the jam out in his signature deep voice. The 4K version showcases just how low-budget looking it is, causing varying reactions online.
This new video isn’t an official remaster from Astley or his record label. It was made by YouTube user Revideo using AI-powered tools Topaz Video Enhance AI, which — as Uproxx reports — upscales video resolution without losing visual clarity, and RIFE (Real-Time Intermediate Flow Estimation for Video Frame Interpolation), which generates new video frames that go between existing ones to increase the video’s framerate.
https://youtu.be/2ocykBzWDiM
The video for “Never Gonna Give You Up” started a phenomenon called “Rickrolling”, which is a bait-and-switch prank involving posting a hyperlink that is supposedly relevant to the topic at hand in an online discussion, but re-directs the viewer to the music video of “Never Gonna Give You Up”.
Here as some of the mixed reviews:
https://twitter.com/ddalgitokki29/status/1362348800702963716?s=20
when i saw rick astley trending i thought something bad happened, instead it’s just twitter rickrolling itself in 4k pic.twitter.com/d25dpaZNtI
— infinity (@infinity_mcyt) February 18, 2021
https://twitter.com/CraigStevenHil2/status/1362397460434280448?s=20
https://twitter.com/SirPauer/status/1362335683302608897?s=20
My kids reacting to Rick Astley in high def is like when I realized the 1950s were actually in color
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) February 18, 2021
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