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hey what is up guys I'm Kay PhD here and you know today is today is April 1st 2013 which means of course you guys know it is April Fool's Day that being said try not to at least for the next 24 hours try not to take anything you see on the Internet sort of headlines or product announcements too seriously but that being said the Internet's usually a pretty fun place on April Fool's Day so without any further ado we're going to go ahead and count down the top five companies that have been doing a pretty awesome job with their April Fools pranks for the last couple of years a lot of these are internet-based companies but they're all tech related companies so uh let me further ado let's go ahead and check those out starting with five number five is reddit on April 1st 2010 reddit made everyone on the site and administrator which means everyone had the ability to edit post titles to upload things as much as they want and to ban users which of course sent the entire site into deep and utter chaos but I think for April Fool's Day that was actually a pretty hilarious idea but even more fun on April 1st 2011 instead of being able to gift other users reddit gold you could only gift other users reddit mold now what reddit mold did if you were gifted reddit mold it would slowly one by one take away the amount of characters you had to comment on at post so you were unable to at first use the letter e and then the letter B and then the letter F and as you got more and more reddit mold gifted to you you would be slowly reduced until the last three letters you had or MP and H to leave all your comments on reddit and hilarity ensued number four is actually Toshiba now they haven't been all that great in the past but one of the most recent ones in fact last year in 2012 was pretty hilarious and they basically put out this video saying hey you know what Apple is dominating the tablet game and we know that we recognize that but you know what all tablets out there are pretty much the same everyone is using rectangles every tablet is a rectangle so they put out this really dedicated spoof video introducing three new tablets a circular tablet a heart shaped tablet and a rhombus I think my favorite was definitely the rhombus the rhombus shaped tablet out of all the shapes they could have picked to introduce as a comedic sketch that one was pretty funny so Toshiba gets props at number four for their awkward shaped tablet number three is YouTube you probably saw this one coming but every year on April Fool's Day YouTube has some of the geekiest April Fool's Day pranks so for example in 2011 YouTube on every single video put a 1911 button to celebrate their 100th anniversary not really but they put a 1911 button on every video where if you clicked it it would add is sort of a yellowish and graininess to give every video on YouTube and antique look and it worked for every single video which actually takes a lot more effort than you might think in 2010 it was even more geeky below the 1080p button below the 720p button below the 480p button and below the 240 P button there was a text P button which would display every video on YouTube if you clicked it in a SC IR art a si art which is actually a really difficult feat to accomplish but they said they had a whole page dedicated to how it increases the literacy of YouTube users but it was hilarious and yeah it was actually really technically complicated to pull off but it worked and every single video could be played as moving text on the screen this year on YouTube the prank isn't quite as geeky for April Fool's Day but it is still pretty funny they're going to be shutting down YouTube and for the next 10 years picking a video that wins a video that wins all of YouTube it's pretty hilarious you should watch the video down below I'll have all the pranks down below the like button on this video that I'm referring to during the course of this video so you can check them out and relive them they're all below and they're pretty funny so check them all out number two is adblock a lot of people on the web use an ad blocker especially adblock adblock plus is one of the most popular things on the web so they tend to have a lot of power on the web because a lot of people rely on their service for a streamlined smooth clean internet with no ads that being said on April 1st last year they're replaced every ad that would have been blocked on the internet with a picture of a cat that's what they did and that was probably the best thing they could have ever done because the internet needs more cats well done and number one you probably saw this one coming also it is got a long history of April Fool's Day pranks on the intern Google they're basically the masters of this stuff Google's April Fool's Day hoaxes go as far back as the year 2000 where they introduced a new product called mental plex which convinced users to stare at a spiraling circle in the middle of your screen and think of what they wanted to Google search which was sort of the beginning of a tradition of a lot of geeky and well done and well produced and funny and hilarious April Fool's Day pranks in the past few years Google's April Fool's Day stuff has gotten more and more dedicated and hilarious and well produced in 2008 they launched 14 hoaxes one of which was called Gmail time which allowed you to timestamp your emails whenever you wanted to basically in the future or the past or whenever you want in 2010 Google changed their name to Topeka in honor of the city that also temporarily changed their name to Google in 2011 there was the legendary Gmail motion which allowed users to supposedly compose their emails by flailing their body pots around moving around and basically using a body language form of sign language to create the emails that you want to send that was probably the best thing Google's done a long time it was funny the video was funny the concept was funny it was hilarious and it was a really well done video to send a message lick a stamp and place it down Google is always doing something neat for April Fool's Day this year so far what I've seen is Google knows which is going to allow you to smell what you want to search if you search for a lemon you get to click the send button and smell your monitor and smell lemons and they also introduced a new product called Google treasure map so if you go to Google Maps today it's going to look a lot like a treasure map and it's an old style and I don't think there's actually treasure on it but I bet someone's going to find some Easter Egg where you actually find some sort of neat stuff in there so go ahead and check it out like I said all the links are down below either way thank you for watching this quick video and hey enjoy the Internet today guys today is a pretty good day to just not take things seriously and laugh at some headlines that you'd usually only see in the onion either way if you see anything else that's awesome definitely leave it in a comment section below I'll be updating the description below the like button with all the new things that we find together over the course of these next 24 hours so it'll be sort of an archive of the best internet hoaxes that happened today either way like I said thanks for watching and I'll talk to you guys in the next video you