YouTube Announces That It Has Been An 8-Year Contest, Will Shut Down On April 1

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/31/youtube-announces-that-it-has-been-an-8-year-contest-will-shut-down-on-april-1-to-determine-the-winner/

by derpenxyne • 13 years ago

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jason_slack4• 13 years ago

Oh, gosh, please No. Please dont post this influx of April 1st gags. It is a total waste of time and makes HackerNews unusable.

cnlwsu• 13 years ago

It may even overshadow the Rails or Java exploit of the week.

jason_slack4• 13 years ago

ha, ok, I can grant you that.

joshka2• 13 years ago

Jason, I might be a hn n00b comparatively, but I reckon go for it. If you can't have some fun one day a year, what good is living?

jason_slack4• 13 years ago

I just feel like so many other sites cover these April 1 jokes to where we could keep HN on task for its purpose.

And "some fun one day a year". I have fun everyday already. I dont need bogus news stories for me to let loose and enjoy life.

sp332• 13 years ago

Sometimes there is one or just a couple of threads made which say "post aprils fools here", which keeps the rest of the homepage clean.

vidarh• 13 years ago

It stopped being fun when the volume of them reached the kind of proportions that you can't avoid them anywhere. To me, this is the signal to not visit any "news" site for the following 24 hours.

zalew2• 13 years ago

so now April fools comes on March 31st, just like Christmas season starts in October?

joshka2• 13 years ago

It's currently April 1st for 1/12 of the earth's surface (approx).

zalew2• 13 years ago

Kiribati citizens must be damn excited google thought of them so soon.

btw there's a google maps layer if anyone is still amused by this stuff.

objclxt• 13 years ago

...it's April 1 for a decent chunk of the world right now, time zones and all...

xelipe• 13 years ago

The money Google spends on bad April fools jokes could have been spent to keep Google Reader up another year.

jason_slack4• 13 years ago

+1000. Well said.

chii• 13 years ago

but it wouldn't have gotten them the same publicity...

lnanek2• 13 years ago

goes to short Google's stock just in case anyone believes it

lutusp• 13 years ago

What's funny about this 4-1 gag is that YouTube has never been profitable and shutting it down would be a reasonable, if short-term, business decision.

nealabq• 13 years ago

"While your work's finished, ours is just beginning. It's gonna be an exciting decade."

The vid ends with understatement.

YouTube Announces That It Has Been An 8-Year Contest, Will Shut Down On April 1

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