Your 2016 April Fool’s Day Prank Spoiler

Today’s April Fool’s Day. Which means you have two choices: you can either bemoan the fact that the day is now devoted to competitive corporate silliness and the word “prank” has become meaningless, or you can make fun of those very pranks with us. Join me as we ruin everyone’s fun with our annual prank spoiler. Read more…

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Your 2016 April Fool’s Day Prank Spoiler

Google launches worst corporate April Fools joke ever, quickly takes it down

For April Fools, Google rearranged Gmail’s UI to replace the normal send button with one that attaches a Minions(TM) Mic Drop GIF animation to outgoing email . “Today, Gmail is making it easier to have the last word on any email with Mic Drop. Simply reply to any email using the new ‘Send + Mic Drop’ button. Everyone will get your message, but that’s the last you’ll ever hear about it. Yes, even if folks try to respond, you won’t see it,” Google explained when it launched the button on April 1. Unfortunately, this resulted in things like this: https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/715752594551869440 Google quickly realized what it had done and turned it off… Well, it looks like we pranked ourselves this year.

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Google launches worst corporate April Fools joke ever, quickly takes it down