Gmail's 'Mic Drop' prank backfires in a mortifying way, gets pulled
 

Gmail's 'Mic Drop' prank backfires in a mortifying way, gets pulled
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Google is a pretty important company, offering pretty important services to a lot of people. So, messing with core functionality of one of their key services, Gmail, just for an April Fools' laugh is out of the question, right?

Wrong.

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On Friday, Google quickly pulled the Gmail Mic Drop feature, which added a "send and mic drop" button to Gmail, allowing users to add a GIF of a Minion dropping a microphone to their emails.*

The problem with Mic Drop is that a lot of people inadvertently added the animated little guy to serious emails (see one particularly nasty example, below)
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