A year ago, Google’s incredibly thorough April Fools’ 2013 prank would have easily won the title of awesomest April Fools’ prank ever. But today? Maybe not.
This year’s prank is a video talking about how today, 8 years from the launch of YouTube, YouTube will no longer be accepting videos:
Short and long of it:
- It’s been 8 years with an average of 70 hours of video uploaded each minute (~560 years of footage in all, for those wondering)
- YouTube is/was one big contest to find the best video ever
- Tonight at midnight (April 1st, 2013) YouTube will accept videos no more
- Site will be back online in 2023 showing only the one, winning video