Longtime readers of PEDESTRIAN.TV – scratch that, basically anyone in our wonderful audience – will have noticed we’re partial to the occasional GIF. Perhaps we’re giving up a trade secret here, but our animated warchest is as deep as it is mind-boggling diverse.
While that’s all well and good, the feature also hilariously took the joke a step further by hiding all subsequent replies to the mic-dropped email. Oh, and the button to send one was situated riiight bloody next to the OG send button we all know and love.
The result was, in hindsight, expected – scores of hapless inbox warriors accidentally sent off vital communiques with the guilty GIF attached. And yeah, any replies were hidden in the aether. Behold, snapshots from the company’s own product forum:
“We realize many of you use Gmail for very important messages, and we are sorry if Mic Drop was in any way harmful to you… We love April Fools jokes at Google, and we regret that this joke missed the mark and disappointed you.”
The feature has obviously been nixed, but you know what? As far as semi-cruel pranks go, this one might have actually succeeded.
Source: The Age / Google.
Photo: Universal Pictures / Google Product Forums.
