april fool

YouTube’s April Fool prank: ‘We are shutting down’

 

April Fool’s day has always been a favourite with Google. In past years they have used the day to give voice to some really outrageous ideas like Gmail Paper (which they claimed would allow users to add all their emails to a paper archive that Google would print on “96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum”) and offer fictitious job opportunities for a research center on the moon.

Reuters

And this year they have pulled out all the stops.
In an elaborately produced video featuring a number of YouTube stars like the (now grown up) brothers who starred in “Charlie bit my finger” and David – from “David after the dentist“, YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar said that “we started YouTube in 2005 as a contest with a simple goal: to find the best video in the world”, and that after eight years of ‘accepting submissions’ the site