April Fools ’ trick are normally a bit of harmless fun . But that does n’t seem to have been the character for one of Google ’s latest japery .
The cyberspace giant is known for its legion annual April Fools ’ jokes , but one seems to have fail spectacularly this twelvemonth . They decided to set up a “ drop cloth mic ” push button on Gmail that would send recipients of the e-mail an invigorate gif of a Minion character “ dropping a mic , ” ending the email yarn and block any future emails in the concatenation .
thing seem to have take a turn for the speculative , though , as incognizant users who click the clit – next to the normal “ send ” button – find that what were imagine to be serious emails became mocking replies .
“ Thanks to Mic Drop I just lost my job , ” say one drug user on Google’sGmail Help Forum . “ I am a author and had a deadline to foregather . I send off my article to my knob and never hear back from her . I inadvertently send the email using the ' Mic Drop ' send clit .
“ I just woke up to a very tempestuous voicemail from her which is how I line up out about this ‘ hilarious ’ joke . ”
The orange button appeared next to the regular profane " send " button . Google
Other user reported similarly awkward instances , where what should have been professional emails were anything but . Google , realizing their error , has now removed the “ drop mic ” button from Google .
“ Well , it looks like we pranked ourselves this year , ” they save in ablog post . “ Due to a bug , the Mic Drop lineament inadvertently get more concern than laughs . We ’re truly dark . The feature has been turned off . If you are still seeing it , please reload your Gmail page . ”
It just extend to show that , while April Fools ’ is normally all fun and game , things can occasionally not go to programme . permit ’s just go for no one has pass the last few decades render in vain to growspaghetti tree .
- drops mic *
