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Google's long been known for its April Fool's hoaxes--from Google Paper, which purported to send you a printed archive of all your email, to Google Gulp, a fake beverage. On April 1, Google launched "Gmail Mic Drop," a feature which added a GIF of the Minion Emperor dropping a mic after your message, and then muted the thread so you wouldn't see any replies. But Google didn't just add this feature to Gmail. It replaced the "Send Archive" button with the Mic Drop button--which just said "Send " and an icon of a microphone. Thus, people's long-ingrained instincts to click the "Send Archive" button led them to "mic drop" instead.