A rumor from a site called channel 45 news has been going around that minecraft’s servers will be shutting down later this year. The rumor has spread across the internet and with millions of fans and players all alike the rumor spread like wild fire.
This is indeed a prank and Minecrafts servers will NOT be shutting down, as the minecraft twitter account has anounced that this was a way out of hand hoax. If you follow the link to the website you will indeed see it was from a prank generator.
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