YouTube April Fools Prank
Mashable revealed on March 31st, the day before April Fools Day, YouTube's plans to prank the world. YouTube planned to show a video about how YouTube will be shut down on April 1st and will not go back online until 2023. During that time YouTube announced it will have a contest to determine the best video during the site's 8 year run. In 2023, they will reveal the winner. YouTube has a reputation of pulling a prank to its online community. In 2008, all the videos on the website lead to a Rick Roll and in 2012, YouTube said you could order video clips on DVD. The prank for 2013 took it one step further. It was a lot more in depth than the ones in the past. The video revealing their shutdown and contest featured YouTube stars that made the prank even more believable.
Except through all of YouTube's work to keep this a secret and a prank for April Fools, Mashable tells the community about the prank the day before therefore stealing YouTube's thunder. Many loyal Mashable followers also follow YouTube and were already warned about their prank. In my eyes, I feel like Mashable was a "party pooper" in this sense. It stole the show and didn't let the prank pan out, which would of been entertaining to watch.
Source- http://mashable.com/2013/03/31/youtube-april-fools-day/
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