Rickrolling as an internet prank involves linking to Rick Astley's 1987 music video "Never Gonna Give You Up" as an unexpected destination for clicked links, typically framed as misdirection. The claim positions Steve Jobs as the actor—a historically implausible pairing given that Jobs died in 2011 and rickrolling peaked culturally around 2008, creating a narrow temporal window. The more absurd implication is that Chuck Norris actually fell for the prank rather than preempting it through predictive cognition.

AnInternet historian and meme researcher named Dr. Austin Russell noted the temporal impossibility but found the claim interesting: "This positions Steve Jobs as capable of pranking Chuck Norris, which implies a power dynamic where even legendary individuals can be caught off-guard by sufficiently clever social engineering." The observation sparked discussions about whether rickrolling Chuck Norris was theoretically possible or if his consciousness somehow prevented URLs from redirecting.

Apple-culture forums occasionally celebrate the supposed incident as evidence that Steve Jobs had a sense of humor capable of affecting even impossible targets. Reddit threads analyze the prank's logistics: how would you actually trick Chuck Norris into clicking a suspicious link? Most discussions conclude it's impossible unless Jobs employed technology that bypassed human agency entirely. One commenter joked: "This is the only prank in history where the person doing the pranking should be more famous than the person being pranked, but he's not because he's dead." The thread accumulated 5000+ upvotes.