In the past two weeks, over half a million people have pushed a button on Reddit that does one thing: Reset a timer. The timer counts down from 60. "But what happens when it reaches zero?!" you ask.

Perhaps it is easier to explain The Button by explaining what it is not. The Button is not a thing that makes sense, nor is it a thing with any particular objective or rule set. It is not a game, and ...

Social media news aggregation site has an interesting relationship with April Fools day. So when today the site posted to its blog announcing of all things a button, it caught the Internet’s attention ...

Reddit is a strange and often beautiful place. Part content-sharing board, part meme factory, part social community, the site has an outsize effect on mainstream Internet news and culture. Subscribe ...

On April Fools' Day this year, a mysterious button popped up on Reddit, inviting members of the social media sharing site to press it. The Button is little more than a grey box with a timer next to it ...

Reddit's April Fools' Day joke, known as The Button, is several days old, and yet people can't seem to stop toying with it. More than half a million people have played a game that's more like a social ...

It was created on April 1 for April Fools' Day. There is a timer that counts down from 60 seconds, and pressing the button resets the timer. The button can only be pressed only one time by a Reddit ...

Rather than do something big and elaborate for April Fools' Day, Reddit did something altogether more insidious for its annual prank: The Button, a social experiment that calls for every one of the ...

Why does The Button exist? Why do people care so much? Why is it taking over the Internet? Why is society so fascinated that they can't wait to press it? Should we be worried about this? Should we ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Reddit staff announced the appearance of the button at 9AM ET on April Fool’s Day. Users could head to the ...