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Google Changes Favicon, World Explodes

Google has made a change to their search engine that has rippled throughout the world, causing panic and fear in the hearts of all, tearing apart economies and launching all-out nuclear war worldwide. What could they have done to cause such turmoil, you ask?

They changed their 1 KB, 16×16 pixel favicon.

Due to the sudden and unannounced change, people everywhere have been launched into a state of chaos, as they fear the worst.

“I thought it was spyware,” says one man from West Virginia. “I saw the new icon as I was purchasing movies online and thought they were going to steal my credit card information. So I grabbed my shotgun and mutilated my computer in hopes that my information would not get stolen.”

A woman in the UK hung herself when she thought that Google’s main page had been taken over by hackers. “I just don’t understand,” reports her husband, Barney. “She was always so….non-suicidal. Her suicide note simply said, ‘If Google has been taken over, our world will soon fall apart and I don’t want to be here when it does. Goodbye, world!’.”

A teenager was found dead with a cranial gunshot wound in Canada. Found near his body was a note that simply stated, “Google, my head asplode [sic].”

An elderly man in Brazil sold all of his possessions and retreated into a cave deep in the rain forest. When asked why he was doing so, he replied, “The new Google icon. It looks like an ‘8′, not so much like a ‘g’. My grandfather always told me to watch out for deception in the world and to flee at the first sign of suspicious behavior among world leaders. Plus, 8 is my least favorite number.”

These are just a few examples of all the chaos and destruction that has ensued. Loss of computer systems has occurred everywhere, including vital servers and routers that supply access to the Internet’s backbone.

As world leaders have discussed the ongoing panic and madness, war has broken out instead of compromise. The world’s most powerful weapons are being prepared and deployed, with at least 5 known strikes already occurring in various locations throughout the globe, with millions reported dead.

If you are reading this article unscathed, you are one of the lucky few who have escaped the turmoil.

Could this be the end of the world as we know it? And all this because of a favicon. Why, Google, why?

Tags: Google, favicon, icon