I’ve come to really hate April Fool’s Day. I never used to care. As a kid, April Fools pranks were annoying things like locking doors, tying shoe laces together, and nonsense like that. Things that might be annoying, or even amounting to physical assault, but ultimately nothing that toyed with my feelings.
In the age of the Internet, though, all April Fools Day pranks are are people just very lazily trying to get me excited for things, and that feels so, so, so much more malicious than anything the schoolyard bullies ever did.People and vectors I rely upon for information just become really sloppily unreliable for a full day out of the year, while they smugly pat themselves on their own backs for engaging in some social ritual I (apparently mistakenly) thought we’d all outgrown by the time we were 10.
I also dislike all the stupid advertising that people post. “-brand- is doing such a funny april fools thing!”
So i like to keep this guy around
a few years ago every april fool’s thing on the internet was like this. it was maddening. thankfully at least the places i frequent have realised that pissing off your audience is not the way to go. saw a piece today about using healing crystals to overclock your pc, which was fun. not plausible enough to convince anyone, enough effort to see that someone had fun doing it.
lime! Yes! This is the kind of thing I’d be OK with. Unfortunately, I’m seeing people on social media just post about highly anticipated rumours being announced by companies and whatnot, which serves no purpose other than to get people who haven’t looked at the calendar excited about something they’ve been quietly hoping for for a long time, and it just seems to mean and unkind.
honestly, i just vote with my attention. if that’s what they think is worth my time, i just remove them from my feed. it applies all year.
Yeah the internet april fools stuff kind of died with COVID. I really enjoyed Blizzard’s stuff of the 2010s though.
My SO and I just call it “Useless Internet Day”, where there’s no point going online or reading the news because half of it is made up. Actually in reality it’s like 3-4 days, because sometimes things stick around in the feed/get reposted by people who fell for it etc.
Where I come from and where I live, April’s fool pranks are exclusively about taping paper fishes to people’s backs, usually stealthily. I always loved it - short term and fun for everyone.
I have also always hated April Fools. It’s a mean-spirited and malicious tradition that is built on shaming people for trusting others and almost always comes down to having fun at other people’s expense.
Yeah, it’s especially annoying when I find a video that seems interesting only to find out it was posted on April 1st 2 years ago, getting “fooled” in the middle of October.
I live in Japan (UTC+9) and we don’t really do pranks here for the most part (google and some other tech companies at least used to do it here, but I’m never looking at their websites anymore to know).
What happens is websites and creators I like start doing weird shit either late on the 1st or sometime on the 2nd my time and I never remember that it’s April Fools’ Day and end up confused and annoyed.
Same here. It’s just “big fucking liar day” to me.
It was always an excuse to just be cruel where I am, especially to trusting people, then laughing at them being trusting.
Them they’d be so fucking pissed when I no longer trusted them! Man! Who’d have thought that could happen!!
I just take it as an opportunity to skip the internet for a day. If it unintentionally forces you to take a break and touch grass, well that’s a good thing.
If this post had turned into the Undertaker copypasta you could’ve won the day.
I get where you are coming from, though
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Have a nice day!
This is one of those things that I thankfully don’t have to experience except for the Internet. With any luck I won’t interact with anyone else today other than over the phone. And my wife is not a fan of pranks either.
Thought this was unpopular opinion. I am autistic and i love april fools(from gaming updates)
Yeah I hate it too, its childish and annoying
Never did appreciate it… but now that I live near a local restaurant that has “Poisson d’Avril” sales (April fools in French), I enjoy fish a lot more in April!!
