Reddit decided to infuritate its users with a dastardly simple prank for April Fools' Day.



No one knows what The Button is apart from the fact that they're not supposed to click it. It counts down from 60 seconds but annoyingly resets every time a user clicks it. Only Reddit users that were signed up before 1 April 2015 are able to press the button and they can only press it once.







Reddit explain the rules in a brief blog post on 1 April 2015.



Despite there seemingly being no discernible point or comedy value to be had, Reddit users dutily pressed the button over and over and over again. At the time of writing, 466, 700 had clicked the button, with the number continuing to rise with no sign of stopping.







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For the uninitiated, Reddit is widely known as the 'front page of the internet' and is a social networking and news site where registered users submit posts which are then voted up or down by other users.

April Fools' Day has been taken to new levels in 2015 as varying time zones combined with the internet mean that the hilarity lasts well beyond the day itself. While many jokes have been easy to spot due to their ludicrous nature, there have been numerous supposedly genuine stories that many still believe aren't actually real, such as Amazon's Dash buttons and the Hyperkin SmartBoy, which turns you iPhone into a GameBoy.





