Bad news, guys. YouTube is shutting down.

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 was a competition. Either way, that competition, called YouTube, is coming to a close.

To decide who has made the best YouTube video of all time, the company has put together an expert panel of judges, replete with film critics, prolific YouTube commenters, and YouTube celebrities including Charlie from “Charlie bit my Finger” and Antoine Dodson of “Antoine Dodson News Blooper (Original).”

YouTube has over 30,000 technicians working tirelessly to narrow down all the YouTube submissions that have come in over the past eight years. The judges will then spend the next decade discussing which video should ultimately win.

Tomorrow, at midnight, the site will be shut down and all of its content will be permanently deleted. YouTube won’t be ressurected until 2023, at which point the only video on the site will be the winner of this competition. That said, the winner won’t be chosen for another decade, but you can watch the first 12 hours of judging live-streamed from YouTube’s L.A. offices tomorrow.

Source: http://www.technologyavenue.com.ng/2013/03/bad-news-youtube-is-shutting-down-on-april-1/

This is preposterous

Sounds more like an April fool.

lol... I've got another version, but this cool too!.

Lordave: Sounds more like an April fool.

solid april fool

Sounds like when i was still in school and a girl, my hostel mate ran out of her room very early in the morning screaming fire! Fire!! We ran out carrying buckets of water to put out the fire! Next thing was april fool. Jeez!! I was angry and felt stupid. How could I have forgotten today is april 1st.
Some guys got angry too and wanted to punish her by pouring water on her rug, but they didn't.