Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of Virgin, decided to play an April Fool's prank on his right-hand man, Ken Berry, in the 90s. Branson invited Berry and his girlfriend to dinner and planned to have a team steal everything from Berry's apartment while they were out. However, when Branson left the dinner briefly to answer a phone call (since there were no mobile phones in the 90s), Berry and his girlfriend unexpectedly left the restaurant, leaving Branson's prank to backfire.
1. The speaker starts by announcing that they are abandoning YouTube and planning to become a circus clown, a passion they've had their entire life. They were even hired by Cirque Du Soleil, but the audience doesn't believe them due to the April 1st prank .
2. The speaker is upset because the team trolled them on April 1st. The prank was released to members of Netolab and involved a meteor exploding the Earth if the viewer didn't subscribe to the channel .
3. The speaker shares a story from 2016 where Google inserted a gif of a Minion dropping a microphone into every email sent through Gmail on April 1st. This led to a scandal as many people, including the Kickstarter Co-Founder, received prank emails and took them seriously .
4. The speaker shares a story from 2014 about Angela Timmons, a woman who trolled her own daughter on April 1st by sending a message pretending there was a shooting at her college. The daughter called the police, thinking it was real, and the police arrived at the college to find nothing .
5. The speaker shares a story about Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin, who trolled his right-hand man, Ken Berry, by inviting him and his girlfriend to dinner and having their apartment robbed while they were out. When they returned home, they found their apartment robbed and Berry went to the police, leading to Branson's arrest .
6. The speaker shares a heavy story about Lin Senhao, who poisoned his roommate Huang Yang's water reservoir with a carcinogenic chemical compound on April 1st. Yang was hospitalized and passed away two weeks later due to the poisoning .
7. The speaker concludes by warning viewers to be careful with April 1st pranks and not to resort to violence or involve anything physical. They encourage viewers to make jokes at the joke level and not to involve themselves in crime or the police .