I've got to hand it to YouTube's engineers: Their April Fools tricks are a lot funnier than the lame fake news gags hackers and journalists type up on April 1. Last year, YouTube redirected visitors to a Rick Astley clip. This year, clicking on a front-page video takes users to an upside-down and backwards version of the clip. Even better: YouTube's instructions how to view the new layout (see below).
These pages obviously took a few work cycles to set up. They show that YouTube -- and its parent company Google -- still have that brash mischievous streak more typical of a startup than a multibillion dollar corporation. Try to imagine Microsoft pranking Silverlight users.
One of the transformed videos:
YouTube's instructions how to view the videos:
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Think you have enough windows open in that screenshot? And I see you like to utilize the quicklaunch quite a bit, too...
A good april fool's joke, nontheless.
gotta love that google team...'cause we all know google bought youtube and google owns blogger or blogspot
I wish I had seen this, I missed it, but thanks for taking the screenshot
Move to australia xD
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