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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thought this was unpopular opinion. I am autistic and i love april fools(from gaming updates)

If this post had turned into the Undertaker copypasta you could’ve won the day.

I get where you are coming from, though

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.

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!!

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.

IT'S JUST A PRANK, BRO!