I just woke up to a very angry voicemail from her which is how I found out about this ‘hilarious’ prank.” Gmail has more than a billion monthly active users, though the company says its Mic Drop prank affected only consumer accounts and not its customers who pay to use Google’s business suite. It also didnt allow you to view replies to your email. My boss took offense to the Mic Drop animation and assumed that I didn't reply to her because I thought her input was petty (hence the Mic Drop). Ap12:03 AM Google replaced its send and archive button with one that attached a gif of a minion dropping a mic. “There were corrections that needed to be made on my articles and I never received her replies. It was rare, but possible to press the regular Send button and still Mic Drop if you did the following: Opened a new compose window Pressed the Send & Mic Drop button. I inadvertently sent the email using the ‘Mic Drop’ send button,” one user wrote. I sent my articles to my boss and never heard back from her. I am a writer and had a deadline to meet. Some Gmail users, however, evidently did not realize what the button was for, and did not find its application humorous after they inadvertently inserted the mic drop GIF into business communications and other high-priority e-mails. Or maybe you just nailed it, and there’s nothing more to say (bam).” Or those times when someone’s seeking group approval, but your opinion is the only one that matters (amirite?). “Like those heated threads at work, when everyone’s wrong except you (obviously). “Email’s great, but sometimes you just wanna hit the eject button,” the company said in a blog post explaining the joke. Pressing the button would reply and archive an e-mail response-as per usual-but then, it would add a GIF of a Minion (from Universal's Despicable Me franchise) dropping a microphone. The prank was, in theory, simple enough: In Gmail, users would see a “Mic drop” button next to the “Reply” button, where the “Send and Archive” button usually is. On Friday, Google pulled its April Fools’ Day prank after it inadvertently backfired for some of its users. Even tech companies, never missing an opportunity for a timely joke, want to get in on the action. There’s no shortage of fake news stories. The worst day of the year to be on the Internet is, without a doubt, April Fools’ Day.
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