Sometimes, people can be so mean online. Other times, though? They’re genuinely great, nice people.
We’re seeing the latter show out in the HBO Test email fiasco. Lots of HBO Max subscribers took to the internet to figure out if anyone else had been sent a random test e-mail from the service.
The e-mail was empty and it looked sort of like it was a potential phishing attempt which, obviously, can be pretty dangerous.
No one quite knew what was going on. The email only said it was an “integration test email #1” and that the template was used for integration tests only.
Yeah, no idea what that means.
Integration Test Email #1.
Anyone else get this from HBO Max đ§ pic.twitter.com/NuYAVvKjnI
— Eduardo Cuevas (@EduardoCuevas) June 18, 2021
Turns out we were never supposed to see this. This was an e-mail accidentally sent to subscribers from HBO Max. And, funnily enough, it was because of an intern.
We mistakenly sent out an empty test email to a portion of our HBO Max mailing list this evening. We apologize for the inconvenience, and as the jokes pile in, yes, it was the intern. No, really. And weâre helping them through it. â¤ď¸
— HBOMaxHelp (@HBOMaxHelp) June 18, 2021
Whew boy. We all know how this usually goes. People never miss a chance to pile on someone’s mistake â especially when they’re an intern.
People love to make fun of bad tweets by saying the intern sent them. Which, by the way, is completely messed up and disrespectful to interns who are only trying to make a way in their respective industries.
But…that’s not what happened here. It’s not even close! People on the internet were actually nice!
They sent lots of tweets about mistakes they’ve previously made and sent words of encouragement to the intern. It was pretty awesome.