No, it's not true. Because if I'm gonna be absolutely honest, I was paid a chunk of money to do a commercial for Virgin, and also I rickrolled the Macy's Day Parade and they paid me a chunk of money for that. I've never even tried to find out what was actually made from the YouTube hits - I've never really thought about it. I don't really care. More @Wikipedia
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