YouTube视频网站早早玩起了愚人节恶作剧。该网站*了一条假消息，宣布将在凌晨关闭网站。
April Fool's day is arriving early for YouTube. The site teases the fake news that it will shut down at midnight.YouTube视频网站早早玩起了愚人节恶作剧。该网站*了一条假消息，宣布将在凌晨关闭网站。
In a video uploaded on the site on Sunday, the company teases the fake news that it will be shutting down at midnight so that its tech team can comb through every clip to pick the best video in the world。周日该网站上传了一个视频，表示因为技术团队要梳理人们上传的每个视频片段，只为挑选出*上*好的视频，所以网站会在凌晨关闭。
"30,000 technicians" will sift through all the clips, and a winner "will be announced when the website goes back online in 2023," states an actor playing a YouTube competition director. 由一名演员扮演的YouTube竞赛主管表示，“三万”名技术人员将筛选所有的视频，网站将在2023年重新开启使用，届时会宣布冠军得主。
YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar makes an appearance in the clip. Internet celebrity Antoine Dodson also goes along with the prank, quipping: "I encourage everybody to watch as many videos as possible before YouTube deletes everything tonight."YouTube 网站的CEO萨拉·卡曼加也在视频中出现，网络红人安托万·多德森也参与此次恶搞，还开玩笑说：“我鼓励大家能看多少视频就能快去看吧，过了今晚他们会把所有的视频都删掉啦。”
YouTube deemed the prank clip part of a yearly tradition and also created a fake blog post touting the closure of the site. 这个恶搞视频是YouTube 网站今年的的愚人节恶作剧的一部分，他们还建了一个假的博客，宣布网站将关闭的消息。
"April Fools’ Day is a big part of YouTube’s culture," a company spokesperson stated. "Each year, we enjoy finding ways to celebrate our community’s creativity."一位公司发言人表示：“庆祝4月1日愚人节是我们YouTube的文化之一，每年我们都会用各种方式来庆祝我们这个社区的创造性。”
