Google Stops Mic Drop April Fool Joke

Could Google have outfooled themselves this April Fool? Perhaps. Remember their April Fool’s joke of the Gmail Mic Drop that allowed you to send an email to someone, and then not giving that person a chance to reply as you have the last word? Well, it seems that their April Fool Joke has backfired on them, as Gmail Mic Drop has resulted in a whole lot of stress and tears compared to laughter, as users have enabled the prank by accident – especially where serious emails are concerned.

The way Google implemented the Mic Drop feature was rather haphazard, where the button was placed on every user’s compose window, which made it a whole lot easier for someone to hit it by accident. For instance, someone posted on the Gmail help forum, “Thanks to Mic Drop I just lost my job. I am a writer and had a deadline to meet. I sent my articles to my boss and never heard back from her. I inadvertently sent the email using the ‘Mic Drop’ send button. There were corrections that needed to be made on my articles and I never received her replies. My boss took offence 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). I just woke up to a very angry voicemail from her which is how I found out about this ‘hilarious’ prank.”

Hence, Google has stopped the Gmail Mic Drop prank in order to avoid any further heartache on the user’s part.

Edwin Kee
Categories: Computers
Tags: april fool, Google