For the dreaded day of April 1, Google supposedly decided to play with its many users by adding a "Mic Drop" feature, according to Mashable. Next to the regular old "Send" button, a "Send + Mic Drop" button reportedly appeared in the hours preceding April Fool's Day. By pressing the new button, a GIF of one of those ubiquitous yellow Minions dropping a mic was automatically embedded into the email as it was sent out. 

Many people failed to see the humor in the prank, which sites like Tech Insider insist really happened before Google pulled it.

Complaints seemed to flood the Gmail Help Forum.

This mic drop is perhaps the most stupid thing you could possibly come up with. I have been interviewing with this company for 3 months now and mistakenly sent the email directly to guess who? The HR! Why would you do that? I so want this job; was due to start on Monday! 

How can I get rid of this new 'mic drop' feature? I can't seem to find anywhere in Settings to do this. 

By the early morning, Google took down the prank and apologized. "Well, it looks like we pranked ourselves this year," an update on the Gmail Blog post announcing the Mic Drop button read. "Due to a bug, the Mic Drop feature inadvertently caused more headaches than laughs."

However, there might be reason to believe that Google intentionally caused this whole fiasco, and that none of these horror stories of job loss actually occurred.

Did this even happen? Did Google REALLY release Mic Drop, or did they make it all up and THAT'S the joke? Google could have totally sent out a press release saying sorry for all the trouble, our bad (i.e. inventing it all). If Google really did release it, did people REALLY lose jobs, or are these claims themselves jokes, making Google thing that horrible things happened because of their feature?

In support of the idea that Google will come out tomorrow and announce the job-losing stories are fake, are the names of the people who submitted complaints on the Gmail Help Forum.

James Apple, Brooke McPhail, and Abdus Salam (a famous physicist who died 20-years-ago) are a few of the names attached to complaints.

So did any of this really happen? Hopefully not, because the idea that Google would choose to forcibly insert a Minion GIF into emails is too much to handle. 

Mic-dropping Minions unexpectedly appearing in emails isn't a prank, it's a cruelty.

In a new commercial for Apple Music, Taylor Swift takes on a treadmill​and loses. It's an interesting endorsement, since Swift and Apple have a complicated past. Swift famously wrote an open letter to Apple shaming them for not paying artists royalties during customers' free 90-day trial of Apple Music. They listened, and changed their policy. As a result of the change, Swift chose to stream her album 1989 exclusively on Apple Music. And now she happens to be their spokesperson, along with (probably) a stunt double:

Since she bent Apple to her will, maybe she could put in requests for everyone else while she's at it. Like some iPhones with screens stronger than egg shells or a decent maps app.

On Wednesday, superstar Ariana Grande said she wants male rappers and singers to stop using misogynist lyrics in their tracks as well as in real life, according to The Mirror. The 22-year-old singer reportedly insists that these musicians can do away with the tawdry trend. "Whether it’s the music industry or real-life we need to break the standard and it needs to go away soon," Grande said.

"When men talk about women in songs it’s like, 'Oh, hell yeah b******.' And if a girl makes a song about a break up then it’s like, 'Wow, I can’t believe she did that!'"

Ari apparently wants women to stand up for themselves and says publicly calling out the issue will help fix the problem.

"I love seeing women be more vocal about these things because it is the only thing that will make a change—being really honest and speaking up. It’s about being supportive of one another and keeping your friends close. Most of my friends are from home. They would kick my ass if I ever let anything go to my head," she said.

In case you forgot, she dated rapper Big Sean for eight months and worked with Chris Brown. Needless to say, both are known for using derogatory terms in their lyrics. The singer ended her relationship with Sean this past April and is currently dating dancer Ricky Alvarez. The singer will probably break up with her doctor, too:

Ari is working on her new album Dangerous Woman, dropping  on May 20. Take a look at her Dangerous Woman music video, below:

Ariana Grande: working hard to end sexism while conjuring up some hilarious hairdos.

April Fool's Day: an annual celebration of whimsy, inconvenience and straight-up confusion. If corporations are people, April 1st is the day on which they show that they are funny people, playing playful pranks on users and fans. Here are businesses' best bits on April Fool's Day, many of which you'll wish were real. 

1. Google Cardboard Plastic

"What's realer than real? Nothing."

Google showed an impressive capacity for self-parody when they lampooned the hype around virtual reality.

2. Timehop Future

The app that shows your past social media posts snuck in glimpses at your future, predicting a dystopian society of more Bieber and even more Fast and the Furious movies. 

3. Whole Foods Main Squeeze

Whole Foods pranked the health-conscious bourgeoisie with a pop-up on their website that they are launching a dating app. It's hard for singles with an appetite for $80 kumquats to find each other, so it's a shame that the Main Squeeze app is merely a prank.

4. Virgin Australia Kids Class

A special "kids class" on planes would be a dream come true for both children and adults, and it's a shame that it's a joke. Virgin Australia created an adorable video pitching a dream cabin for kids, featuring hopscotch rugs, seats for kickers, and a specialized menu of Teddy Bears. Alas, it's too good to be true. 

5. Spotify's Rickroll

 The music streaming service went for the old classic Rickroll meme, never giving you up or letting you down.

6. The Cornish Guardian's Shig

The paper of Cornwall, England, played with our hearts with a Photoshop rendering of the most adorable pet possible.

7. The French Police's Sniffer Cat

Cats fighting crime ended up being as real as Catwoman. Meanwhile, in the UK, police cats are a real possibility.

8. CornHub

It's hard to come up with a cornier joke than Pornhub changing their name to Cornhub for the day. Is it weird that we're turned on?

9. Groovy Maps

It's analog Google maps. So, maps.

10. OpenTable Taste

The restaurant app "launched" "lickable photos" to let you "taste" what's on the menu before you make a reservation. It would also make for a great low-calorie diet.

11. Gmail Mic Drop

A feature that would let Gmail users "drop the mic" and leave the email thread has already been dropped itself. A spokesperson has already issued the statement, “Due to a bug, the Mic Drop feature inadvertently caused more headaches than laughs. We’re truly sorry. The feature has been turned off.”

12. BBC Store Video

Joke's on them, because soon hipsters will be all about VHS tapes and real, live video stores.

13. Google Self-Driving Bike

Wow, imagine a vehicle that didn't require physical effort by humans to move. 

14. PETA's Penis Panic

For April Fool's—and also as a potential incentive to stop killing animals and eating them—People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals decided to hit carnivores where it hurts. While it's gross to think about baby penises, PETA said that eating chicken can make your baby son's dick remain a babydick. Ha ha?

15. YouTube SnoopaVision

"The ability to watch every video in 360 with Snoop Dogg" would make a better 4/20 prank.

16. Imgur for Pets

"Imgur for Pets" flips the script on viral images, putting humans in roles usually played by animals, like memes and reaction GIFs:

Happy April Fool's Day, everyone. Be careful out there.

17. Quilted Northern® Rustic Weave

This one hurts just thinking about it. Charming, woodchip-infused toilet paper that'll make for a literal pain in the ass. There are likely some hipsters out there disappointed in its prankness. 

Tom Hiddleston, a man with a buttocks ogled by many a perverted online admirer, delivered Chicago some pretty bad news meteorologically-speaking. Hiddleston's usually comfortable performing in front of a green screen, but here he stammers his way through the weather report as if he has no idea what a cloud does.

Likely part of a promotional tour for Hiddleston's Hank Williams biopic I Saw The Light, the "Loki" actor was recruited by a local news station to delight and subsequently terrify viewers by announcing that a huge storm front is coming to slam the Windy City.

Do you think Tom Hiddleston has what it takes to be a good weather boy?

CNN is reporting that a 59-year-old Florida-based radio host is suing actor William Shatner for $170 million, claiming that Shatner is his biological father. Peter Sloan, who now goes by Peter Shatner (cue eye roll), claims that his mother, Katherine Burt, had an affair with the Star Trek actor in 1956. Sloan, who was given up for adoption shorty after his birth, has been looking for his biological parents since the 1980s.

Thanks to Peter Shatner for coming in studio today! Do the right thing @WilliamShatnerpic.twitter.com/DFzPBaT4tk

— Mike Calta (@MrMikeCalta) March 30, 2016

According to his lawsuit, Sloan met Shatner in 1984 on the set of his television show T.J. Hooker, and Shatner verbally confirmed to Sloan that he is his father. When Sloan followed up via phone call days later, Shatner hung up the phone and tried to cease all contact with Sloan.

STILL TO COME: #PeterShatner claims @WilliamShatner is his dad and is suing for $170 Million - Peter will join us pic.twitter.com/W2SCdFnwwB

— KiSS 92.5 (@KiSS925) March 30, 2016

Obviously Sloan is looking for a Star Wars/Star Trek crossover moment and wants William Shatner to say, "Pete, I am your father," but the actor is refusing a DNA test. When people bring up Sloan to Shatner, things get as awkward as one of Shatner's Priceline commercials. This conversation is from an interview with Shatner on Bone Radio with Mike Calta, as it is described in Sloan's lawsuit.

Calta: There is a gentleman down here here who did like a pay your own radio show who is claiming to be your son, is that true?

Shatner: I knoww...

(Laughter from Calta and the studio)

Calta: Is he not your son, he kinda looks like you a little?

(3 second pause)

Shatner: Woa...everbody looks like me a little.

Sloan has done what any desperate person with Internet access would do and made a website to get his story heard. Petershatner.com features a gallery of images of Peter, a description of a film he is working on, and this poem he wrote: 

THE ROSES

Whilst I gazed upon the climbing rose bush

admiring the bountiful buds

I anticipated the lavish and copious bloom.

I thought it best

to trim here and there

the twisted, thorny and formidable heart

to improve upon what I saw in nature.

But after a day or two had passed

I noticed the wilting branches

the many buds that now

would never bloom

from the damage I had done.

And I thought it better

that I should have left well enough alone.

-Peter Shatner

Although Peter's Twitter, Instagram and IMDB pages have all been suspended, he does still have a YouTube account. He uploaded this video of his daughter, Ann, meeting Shatner at Comic Con in 2011, and titled it "Peter Shatner video of his father William Shatner saying goodbye to his granddaughter Ann." Creepy.

William Shatner and his team continue to deny that he is Sloan's father. Sloan is seeking $30 million in compensatory damages, $90 million in punitive damages and $50 million for pain and suffering on top of demanding a jury trial. He is definitely not a crazy person who is just coming after Shatner for his money. 

On Wednesday, Amber Rose released her app MuvaMoji, which is a lot like Kim Kardashian's Kimoji, except, you know, with Amber instead of Kim.

Kim Kardashian released a similar app in December 2015, and Kardashian fans are angry because they think Amber copied Kim's idea. Rose, who dated Kim's husband Kanye West from 2008 to 2010, probably couldn't care less what Kardashian fans think because, according to TMZ, she's already made $4 million off the app in the two days since it's been released.

Rose named the app "MuvaMoji" after a word she also has tattooed on her: "Muva," which is apparently slang for "mother" (she is one). The app currently has over 900 emoji and promises of new content every week.

There's even, for some reason, a Bill Cosby emoji.

And an emoji that seems like it might be a reference to her now infamous comment about Kanye's bedroom preferences.

And a "Free Kesha" one, too.

Haters gonna hate, but Amber Rose fans gonna buy.

For April Fool's Day, pro-independence group The Scottish Resistance announced that Scotland resident J.K. Rowling had joined their (small) ranks and was penning a book decrying the UK government. Previously, according to The Guardian, Rowling has deemed the Resistance "comedy geniuses," which would make her joining the group even more shocking than the announcement of an eighth Harry Potter book (in all truth, that wasn't too shocking of a revelation).

BREAKING NEWS

J K Rowling has joined The Scottish Resistance and has started her new book THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF WESTMONSTER

BuzzFeed drew Rowling's attention to the the Facebook post that Resistance founder James Scott created. 

Rowling, who ardently supports Scotland's place in the UK, was amused.

And because she's masterful at unexpected twists and turns, she one-upped her would-be prankster.

That's her, in a Scottish Resistance shirt, which she apparently sports as a joke. In short, don't bother pranking the woman who holds all the knowledge of the magical world. She is too powerful. 

In the The Tonight Show's latest "Hashtags" segment, Fallon shared some very hilarious tweets from parents regarding their very strange kids. Using #MyKidIsWeird, Fallon embraced the peculiar behavior of children everywhere. 

One of the greatest, saddest, most hilarious tweets Fallon shared in the video was: “One of the kids in my class came out of the bathroom and quietly said to himself, ‘Well that hurt…’”

That kid gets an A+ for being brutally honest.

Want more? Here are some of the weirdest things parents shared on Twitter that didn't make it on the show: 

Kids are the worstbest.

If you’re the kind of person who actually plays pranks on April Fool’s Day, leave your parents out of it. If they overreact and go crazy, you deserve it, because you are bad, the kind of kid who isn’t grateful for the phone they bought you that you used to record yourself pranking them.

1. Safety in numbers.

2. Pure energy.

3. Belting it out.

4. It's a smash.

5. Only slightly more healthy than actual Windex.

6. Drugs are bad. 

7. He don't lie, he don't lie, he don't lie… 

8. Cut it out.

9. Tattoo? You?

10. Weeding it out.

Between Easter, the Bernie Sanders Bird Incident, and Donald Trump's latest ramblings, it's been an even crazier week than normal. Tweeters weigh in on those stories, plus jokes about such eternal topics as toilet paper, apples, basketball hoops and more in the top 41 tweets of the week!

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British model Cara Delevingne took to Twitter on Thursday to set the record straight on her modeling career, depression, and future aspirations. In March, it seemed as though she was permanently quitting modeling. She cleared the air on that issue:

Delevingne has previously discussed her struggle with depression. She then said depression was to blame for much of her troubles while modeling, and was careful to be thankful for her successful career:

Better to be a supermodel that word-vomits instead of actually vomits. It seems like Delevinge is making strides to be the healthiest person as she can possibly be, and and her career shift towards acting (in addition to modeling) is also proving successful. She'll appear in Suicide Squad and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. 

In the meantime, if you want a real word vomit rant that holds nothing back, revisit some of Kanye's greatest hits.

A Canadian man named Angus Brian MacDonald succumbed to unnamed health issues last Friday, but at some point during his final days, MacDonald flexed a lifetime's worth of humor and wisdom. He crafted his very own obituary, ultimately proving that he didn't lose an ounce of character as he hopped on that last train to glory.

Angus Brian MacDonald, 1948—eternal Internet fandom.

Even without knowing him personally, it's easy to surmise the exact type of good-natured guy he was, just by the short autobiography he left before taking the big sleep.

His obituary, posted online to InMemoriam.CA, began by acknowledging that he is, in fact, dead.

So, the world doesn't have Angus MacDonald to kick around anymore. I'm gone! The devil finally called my name. The grim reaper came for me on Friday March 25, 2016. I bought the farm. I bit the dust. So I guess I'm off to the promised land eh? The promised land! Imagine!

MacDonald then reflected on how he'd lived his life, and usurped the Almighty to deliver eternal judgment upon himself.

So anyway, I think I was a pretty nice guy, despite being a former punk and despite what some people would say about me. What did they know about me anyway? I loved my family and cared for them through good times and bad; I did my best.

Fair enough! His final wishes were also quite humble.

I don't want a funeral. A funeral is a waste of harrrrrrd earned and harrrrrrd saved money that my family can use now. I was a very private person in life, so I don't want to end that life with people gawking at me while I lay in a coffin. I'm being cremated and my ashes are being scattered (somewhere). So instead of going to see the great creator, I will be going to see the great cremater.

MacDonald asked for any memorial donations to be made out to the Palliative Care Unit at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital, and signed out of this world with,"Happy trails! Love Angus B. MacDonald."

What a classy and graceful way to make an exit. Everyone should take a note from Angus' farewell and try not to be a huge bummer about dying.

You never quite know how someone—even someone you're close to—will respond to a surprise, let alone a prank. Probably not well. How well a person keeps it together, or, in these cases, totally loses it when pranked says a lot about them.

1. Cutting crew.

2. Just kickin' it.

3. In England they call water balloons "leaky jims," probably.

4. His hands are tied.

5. A huge reaction to a little fake spider.

6. A huge reaction to a huge but kind of lame fake spider.

7. Ya burnt.

8. Schrodinger's pregnancy prank.

9. Did you hear that?

10. Having a blast.

Just about everybody has run out of space on their phone at some point, what with all the music and texts and saved photos of Steve Buscemi.

Even when you remove stuff, there still seems to be a lot of space taken up that can't be accounted for. Luckily, Reddit user "eavesdroppingyou" posted a handy trick for freeing up space on your phone. It reads:

Not sure if this is well-known, might be but definitely some people don't know it.

I have an iPhone with 16 Gb so I'm always dealing with low storage. A trick I do to get back some storage is to try to "rent" a movie with a big file size (something like LOTR: two towers).

Just go to iTunes and search for the movie (with a bigger file size than what you have left on storage), click rent and soon you'll get the message saying you don't have enough storage and offers you to go to settings. Click that and magically you will get some storage back (probably it erases some useless data from different apps to try to download the movie).

Repeat the process 4-5 times and before you know it you recovered 1 to almost 2 Gb. Try it!

The only catch is you have to have very, very little storage left for this to work. Check your storage (Settings > General > Storage & iCloud), and make sure you've only got megabytes left.

Then open iTunes and find a really long movie, like Watchmen, Lord of the Rings, or Pearl Harbor.

Click the "Rent" button and you'll get a pop-up telling you: "cannot download." Click settings and, magically, you'll have a bit more space.

You can try it a few times in a row and see how much space you free up. Now you can go back to wasting space on your phone like usual.

After slamming Melbourne's The Duke of Wellington pub on Twitter for one of its meal offerings, journalist Adam Collins is in turn receiving a mix of supportively humorous tweets and cutting remarks. According to 9 News, Collins noticed that in addition to their house take on chicken parm, the pub menu includes a smaller version dubbed the Lady Parma.

While the manly version includes "ham, cheddar, coleslaw & chips" for $25 AUD, the feminine serving is "140 g chicken, ham, cheddar, house leaves & chips." It does cost less (it's $19 AUD), perhaps because women still earn less on average than men. ​This dish is clearly for ladies and not just any old woman, though, because normal women eat salad while ladies eat "house leaves" and never any more or less than 140 grams of chicken.

A number of people sided with Collins over the absurdity of the Lady Parma:

But others felt that Collins could have spent his energy on something other than indignantly tweeting:

No one, apparently, has noticed how odd it is that a meal dissimulating itself as a healthy version still comes with giant fries.

Is the Lady Parma version of the Duke Parma a slice of sexism?

Britney Spears's Instagram has been trending of late, mostly for her participation in the rich cultural tradition of bikini photos. Spears has raised the stakes this week with the only thing as exciting as a beautiful celebrity in a bikini—another beautiful celebrity's face.

Spears observed Throwback Thursday  on March 31 with a photo of herself and Leonardo DiCaprio, a reminder that the venerated Oscar-winning actor was likely a total douchebag in the early 2000s. Not only is he sporting a smug expression, but he's throwing up the West Coast hand sign while wearing a Boston Red Sox hat—an impressively ridiculous contradiction. 

This is the kind of photo that makes you wonder if the serial modelizer who won't date women over 25 is somehow secretly kind of a jerk.