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.

The button—an interchanging graphic with a padlock symbol on it—says that it allows users to press it but once. Pressing the button resets a 60 second timer, which also appeared with the button. As of the posting of this article, the button subreddit claims that over 310 thousand Redditors have participated in pressing the button.

It is currently unknown what happens when the timer runs down.

At the moment the button is being pressed so quickly that the timer never drops below 59 seconds. It resets every time the miliseconds drop to 59:00 and the “participants” metric jumps sometimes by over 10 each second. Occasionally, though, the timer has managed to drop to as low as 57 seconds.

Users who press the button currently receive a purple dot next to their name, when moused over it shows “60s.” Others have managed to get slightly lower second counts, presumably this number is set by the time shown on the timer. Users who have not pressed the botton receive a grey dot that simply reads “non presser.”

The subreddit’s participants have split themselves into two apparent camps: those who have pressed the button and those who are calling for the button not to be pressed. Others have also speculated that if it’s only possible to press the button once, this means that the number of potential button-pressers will reduce until eventually the sixty second timer is extinguished.

Of course, upon which time the population of Reddit will know exactly what happens when the timer runs out.

Hilariously, a Reddit user named thebutton, Rdditor for 3 years, appeared in the /r/thebutton subreddit to point out that the April Fools social experiment has led to a lot of notices involving thebutton’s username.

Past Reddit April Fools jokes

In 2013, Reddit posted a blog claiming to have bought Team Fortress 2, an extremely popular team-based first person shooter from Valve Corporation. To celebrate, users logging in during this time were assigned to a team: Orangered or Periwinkle.

Usernames received badges of the appropriate color and users were also given inventories of weapons that could be used on themselves or other users.

This event felt more-or-less like a social experiment as it split users into opposing teams and enabled them to interact with each other. Much in the same way the button asks users to interact with the site.

In 2014, Reddit announced the release of Heddit, a sort of gesture recognition product for browsing Reddit. Not quite the same nature as today’s or 2013’s April Fools offerings. Although, enabling Reddit cat mode by showing the webcam a cat is still one of the best things anyone can do for the Internet.