Emperor's New Groove Rickroll Twist Meme
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Overview
This is a 4-panel edited meme using scenes from Disney's The Emperor's New Groove. The first panel shows an anxious animated character telling a crowned chief, "My chief we've been tricked". The second panel features the chief with a confused expression asking, "How so?". The third panel cuts to Kuzco, the film's main character, with a wide, mischievous grin revealing, "This meme is a rickroll". The fourth panel shows the chief with a shocked, horrified expression reacting to the reveal. The joke is a meta subversion of the classic rickroll prank, where the meme openly admits it's a rickroll instead of hiding the prank.
Origin notes
This meme is a remix/edited version of scenes from Disney's 2000 animated film The Emperor's New Groove. Custom dialogue text was added to original animated screenshots to create a rickroll-themed joke. Rickroll memes originated from Rick Astley's 1987 song "Never Gonna Give You Up", where users are tricked into viewing the song's video. This specific remix is commonly shared on meme-focused platforms like Reddit (r/memes, r/dankmemes), Twitter/X, and TikTok, as part of the ongoing, long-standing rickroll internet culture.
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