Yass… I woke up today and that’s the first thought that popped into my head. With clowns running the world and their demented jokes as reality… nothing is funny anymore.
Where I am, that day started 13 hours and 54 minutes ago … so far the news is indistinguishable from any fake or real news.
Alternatively April fools air raid sirens
I wonder what the white houses april fools joke will be. Probably something along the lines of “We’re sending humanitarian aid to Myanmar” or something tone-deaf like that
I got absolutely fooled by a tech YouTuber posting that Microsoft added OneDrive ads to the blue screen, so it felt good to get got for once.
However with real life news, I tend to agree with you. The distinction between satire and real life is getting ever more minuscule
It’s just not fun anymore.
It used to be kinda humorous in an irreverent way back in the 2000s when Google used April Fools to announce things like the Google Romance search engine, or a facility to archive all your Gmails on printed paper. It was tech making fun of itself.
But these days when the mask is fully off, and we recognise that big tech and social media has been one of the greatest problems the world has ever faced, we’re not laughing any longer.
I loved the time I tried to copy something on StackOverflow and a fake ad popped up for a SO-branded copy/paste device.
I mean, Google announcing a Möbius-shaped keyboard would still be a good April 1st joke, “obviously fake news” from a news source wouldn’t be because it’s not obvious, anymore.
April’s fools is a line break. It reminds people that things don’t have to be as they are, that they’re not on an inescapable path and they can choose to be different.
For one day a year you are made to look for deviations so you know that you can deviate if you want to. You have that option in spite of however many shackles may keep you bound to your route.
It’s not a holiday for the mean to be meaner, it’s a liberation day for the mind.
Yeah, I think the mean prank vibe sucks (obvs, ymmv) but the ‘fake news’ aspect was a positive. Like the original and sadly long lost art of og trolling, the purpose was to remind everyone that you cannot believe everything you read, and you should not suddly react to something just because you read it in a newspaper. If it sounds wild or incendiary, maybe check a couple of other sources before passing it on to friends and looking like a ‘fool’.
Unfortunately, we’ve past the stage where gentle friendly reminders of media literacy are likely to help. Most of us are all too aware we live in an age of misinformation (but don’t agree on what is ‘fake’) so it’s no longer funny.
You’ll love my comment from yesterday!
Tomorrow one is never going to be sure we aren’t in that Star Trek: TNG episode with the time loops (pick one, but you know the one) - but for news.
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i opened lemmy to this. april fools definitely cheered me up at least, lol :)
News sources shouldn’t be playing stupid April fools jokes. Everyone’s a fucking comedian. Certain people don’t get to make cute jokes, i don’t want that from my doctor either.
injects you with a mystery chemical
“Haha, you thought that was a vaccine? Nope! April Fools!”
“Trump does thing people generally agree on out of kindness of his heart”
Too easy
I wonder if AI companies basically disregard scraped data from 01/04 due to all the tomfoolery.
Today in headlines: Everything is normal. The USA is not the laughingstock of the world. Civil war is not imminent.
Haha! April Fools … yea that kind of sucks, let me try again.
Today in headlines: Elon Musk takes a sledgehammer to a Tesla showroom while screaming “I will fucking beat you to it you filthy terrorists!” … no, see, that could happen … I quit April Fools.
It’s a stupid concept anyway, it’s never been fun except to those few people who think pranks are awesome.
I remember once as a kid I moved to a school I really liked, the kids were nice, the teachers were cool and helpful and didn’t make me feel like an idiot, like I actually wanted to go to school, then April fools day comes along and my nan decided to call me and tell me the school had burnt down, this obviously made my 7 year old heart break and I started bawling worried I had to move back to the bad school, she had tried to say April fools but I threw the phone away so I didn’t hear it, she never April fools me again.
Fuck April fools day, some things deserve to die and be forgotten.
That’s a shit prank, and people like your nan don’t understand how pranks work.
A good prank should allow the subject to join in the fun. Some stuff came up this year, so my plans have to be delayed until next year, but I bought a vial of gallium that I’m planning on molding with a cast of one of our kitchen spoons.
So my wife will wake up and see that her coffee melted her spoon. Little miraculous and inexplicable moment in the morning.
(Gallium is non-toxic)
It might melt in her hand before it even makes it into the coffee
It’s melting point is 85F, but I’ve found it difficult to melt with body heat. Haven’t played with it out of the vial yet though. Maybe it’ll be easier when it’s thinner.
I absolutely love your spoon idea, but you are like the 1% of pranksters. I have never, ever witnessed or been subjected to a prank that lets the victim join in the fun. It’s always been solely fun at someone else’s expense, ending in laughing and/or pointing at someone.
People are pretty good at remembering the negatives and forgetting positives.
Maybe you just remember the mean ones.
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As with all things, some pranks are better than others.
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Your lifelong trauma from a prank gone wrong is delectable.
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Psychologically, these types of holidays are recommended because they break the monotonous delirium of daily droning. They force the brain to think and not just accept everything as it comes.
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Your nan’s hardcore. She may decide to haunt her place after passing, so keep some salt with you when you visit.
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