I’ve been playing the same game of Civ II for 10 years. Reddit user Lycerius had been playing the same game of Civilization II for 10 years (impressive!) just to see how far he could go, and he made it to the year 3991 AD. The Civilization series of video games lets you build an empire, starting in the year 4000 BC, and lets you see how long you can make that empire last (it can stretch far into the future). So far, the glitch has been acknowledged and "The Button" is still going strong. Most recently, a technical glitch did cause the button to reach zero faster, with nothing happening when it did. Users who press the button just after the clock resets get purple or blue flair, while those who wait for the counter to tick away get orange, yellow, or red flair. What makes it more interesting is that redditors who press the button at different times get different kinds of flair (badges that appear next to their username). If you have the option to press the button, you can only do it once. (I captured the GIF above, which just happened to reach "24 seconds," the lowest I've seen yet. What happens then? No one knows, except whoever put this together. There's a button on the left side (hence, "The Button"), and a 60-second counter on the right side and center.Įvery redditor who signed up before April 1, 2015, can press the button, which restarts the counter. So, if you visit the subreddit, this is what you'll see: The subreddit, r/TheButton, dropped on April Fool's day, and is pretty simple in its concept, but is extremely cunning in its ability drive Reddit users crazy.