The only thing that's going to happen on that day is people are going to freak out as much as they did on Y2K, that stupid "the hadron collider's gonna make a black hole and suck up the world!" ordeal, and about any date that had 666 in it. People like to be scared, if you believe the world is going to end, do whatever you think you need to do, I'll be doing other things.
This is entirely untrue
It has been stated in previous posts that they might have just become lazy or bored.