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Twenty Thousand Hertz

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Grand Theft Auto 4 - The Duck Roll

After the word filter was made, someone made an image of a duck on wheels. That image became like a popular gag on the site. People would do the whole hyperlink bait and switch where, oh, you think you're going to click something super interesting, but then you just get the picture of the duck roll. And so the final sort of piecing together, the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 4 being released, there was so much traffic on the site that it crashed. Someone on Forchan used that same method of the duck Roll by saying, oh, here's the link to the trailer, but it was Rick Astley's never going to give you up. Smugg

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