Pornhub scares everyone to death with its terrifying April Fools' Day prank

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Pornhub scares everyone to death with its terrifying April Fools' Day prank
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Pornhub just took five years off a lot of people's lives.

The porn site played a pretty mean and also hilarious April Fools' Day joke on its users.

Anyone who clicked on a Pornhub video on Saturday got this message:

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How kind of them! "No need to manually share your video to your friends and family ever again."

Of course, the "thanks for sharing" feature was a joke, which another message told users after they clicked "Thanks Pornhub!" or "WTF, reverse this now!"

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April Fools!!

[H/T Daily Dot]

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Emma Hinchliffe

Emma Hinchliffe is a business reporter at Mashable. Before joining Mashable, she covered business and metro news at the Houston Chronicle.

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