The first known instance of a rickroll occurred in May 2007 on \ / v \ / , 4chan 's video game board , where a link to the Rick Astley video was claimed to be a mirror of the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV ( which was unavailable due to heavy traffic ) .
The first instance of rickrolling happened in May 2007 on the 4chan video game board , where a link to the video was said to be a copy of the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV .