YouTube Announces That It Has Been An 8-Year Contest, Will Shut Down On April 1

Oh, gosh, please No. Please dont post this influx of April 1st gags. It is a total waste of time and makes HackerNews unusable.

The money Google spends on bad April fools jokes could have been spent to keep Google Reader up another year.

so now April fools comes on March 31st, just like Christmas season starts in October?

"While your work's finished, ours is just beginning. It's gonna be an exciting decade."<p>The vid ends with understatement.

<i>goes to short Google's stock just in case anyone believes it</i>

What's funny about this 4-1 gag is that YouTube has never been profitable and shutting it down would be a reasonable, if short-term, business decision.