Google launches worst corporate April Fools joke ever, quickly takes it down

For April Fools, Google rearranged Gmail's UI to replace the normal send button with one that attaches a Minions(TM) Mic Drop GIF animation to outgoing email.

Today, Gmail is making it easier to have the last word on any email with Mic Drop. Simply reply to any email using the new Send + Mic Drop button. Everyone will get your message, but thats the last youll ever hear about it. Yes, even if folks try to respond, you wont see it, Google explained when it launched the button on April 1.

Unfortunately, this resulted in things like this:https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/715752594551869440

Google quickly realized what it had done and turned it off

Well, it looks like we pranked ourselves this year. Due to a bug, the MicDrop feature inadvertently caused more headaches than laughs. Were truly sorry. The feature has been turned off. If you are still seeing it, please reload your Gmail page.

but not before a fair heap of mistakenly-dropped mics had piled up, along with the mic droppers' anguished complaints, on the internet.

A good reminder that email is not what Gmail is for.