TR(ol)L: New Kids on the Block, Total Request Live and the Chain Letter That Changed the Internet | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00 If you think about it, voting "Hangin' Tough" on the countdown was like the first Rick Roll of all time.

00:06 Right? It was like, "Let's take this song that we think is cheesy and cool in an ironic way,

00:12 and let's see if it actually makes it on the countdown."

00:15 [Music]

00:35 Where's the letter?

00:37 [Music]

00:48 Hello all. This is a chain letter that I am starting. Hear me out.

00:52 There's nothing I loathe more than chain letters.

00:54 Well, except for the teenage obsession and recent success of such male quintuplet vocal acts as

01:01 The Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, 98 Degrees, and 5. The idea struck me like a truck while I was watching TRL yesterday.

01:09 TRL, for those of you who don't know, is the abbreviation for the showcase of Carson Daly witticisms

01:14 that is Total Request Live on MTV. MTV itself being an abbreviation for music television. He's done his research.

01:21 Here's what we all must pull together and do.

01:25 Send this email to as many people as possible. The message is simple. On March 10, 1999,

01:31 everyone who has received this email will get online and before the airing of Total Request Live,

01:36 cast their vote for the New Kids on the Block epic music video, "Hangin' Tough."

01:41 You in turn will not reap, that's misspelled, lifelong rewards and benefits if you do,

01:45 but you will laugh your ass off if it works.

01:48 It is the ultimate insult to popular culture. We can make this happen.

01:53 And there it is.

01:56 [music]