In a three-minute clip posted on the video-sharing site today, YouTube announced that it had been nothing but a worldwide competition to find the best video in the world, and now it’s going to shut down for a decade while a team of judges sift through all the videos and select the winner. YouTube would bestow the victor with a $500 prize and feature only that winning video on the site when it reopens in 2023.

Google went a step further by actually incorporating its hoax product onto the face of its search engine. Google Nose, "The new scentsation in search" “leverages new and existing technologies to offer the sharpest olfactory experience available” via SMELLCD™ 1.8+ high-resolution for exact and controlled smells. Good news: horse manure (yummm), spring morning and wet dog are all available! Meanwhile, SafeSearch will keep users away from unwarranted smells.

“Twttr” announced last night that unless you’re a premium user, you need to keep vowels away from your tweets because if you don’t, Twitter will cost you $5 a month from now onwards. Who needs vowels anyway? Ask a teenager and they’ll tell you how expendable and overrated they’ve become. That’s why Twitter decided to do its older generation users a favor and bring them up to standard, explaining “We’re doing this because we believe that by eliminating vowels, we’ll encourage a more efficient and “dense” form of communication.” Y hv nthng t wrry bt f y cn ndrstnd ths sntnc!