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Google closes YouTube for 10 years – shocking statement from founders
01 April, 2013
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Sensational information was spread in social network: YouTube, the most popular video sharing site in the world, will close on Monday, April 1. The Web site explained that YouTube started as a competition and the portal is now deciding the winner of that alleged contest as part of the closing down.
Before you panic, consider the following. Monday is April 1, more known as April Fools' Day and YouTube has a tradition of pulling such pranks every year since 2008.
In one of the articles it is mentioned that "The platform launched eight years ago, and some of us have gotten so distracted by YouTube videos that we've forgotten that the whole thing is actually a competition. Or, YouTube never actually mentioned that it is a competition. Either way, that competition, called YouTube, is coming to a close."
Although a check with Wikipedia on the history of the establishment of the site based on a competition showed no such entry, the International Business reports.
The following were YouTube's yearly April Fools' pranks:
2008 - It redirected all videos on the main page to Rick Astley's music video Never Gonne Give You Up, and called the prank Rickrolling.
2009 - Whenever users click a video on the main page, the whole page turns upside down, which YouTube explained was a new layout.
2010 - All colours in videos were translated to random upper cases by YouTube's temporary relief of a TEXTp mode. The portal then claimed it was necessary to cut bandwidth cost by $1 per second.
2011 - Though established only in 2005, the site claimed to be celebrating its 100th anniversary with a 1911 button and it show several sepia-toned silent videos that were common in the early 1990s, including Flugelhorn Feline which is a parody of Keyboard Cat.
2012 - When users clicked the image of a DVD beside the YouTube logo, it opens to a video about The YouTube Collection which provided an option to order every YouTube video on DVD, videocassette, Laserdisc or Betamax tape for home delivery.
2013 – The joke is more than obvious – shutting down until 2023.
Happy April Fools' Day.

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