Any good April Fools jokes out there?
Any good April Fools jokes out there?
Are there any good April Fools jokes today? For example, a few years ago Google announced a sewage based ISP (i.e. flush some fiber optic cable down the toilet and they would fish it out and connect it).
The only one I have come across is IGN article about the Nintendo Virtual Boy Pro.
For an IRL example... I explained April Fools Day to my 4 year old kid this morning for the first time. His first instinct was to wrap a piece of Lego in foil and have me write CHOC on it, then leave it outside the bedroom door for my wife (who was having a lie in). I think he gets it!
57He's been holding on to that prank for 4 years
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Last year, the Flying subreddit (a subredit for pilots, both hobbyists and professional ones) had a mod post about changing focus to the more numerous group: The passengers, giving the impression that they pivoted to travel blogging. Due to timezones, the april fools aspect wasn't immediately clear, so the outrage was enormous.
48My son (5 y/o) walked into my office and said “dad! I brought you something”. I assumed it was a piece of Easter candy because he had a hand behind his back. I asked him what did he have.
He turned around, let out a huge fart, and said “Fooled you!” Then he put on his cowboy hat and walked out of the room.
Yep, gottem.
46Aha, Billy The Skid
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Google Japan always pulls a joke about how they've developed a new better Google Japanese Keyboard.
So far there's been a spoon you bend to different angles to select characters, and a giant keyboard key you wear as a hat and use by reaching up and spinning it to point in the cardinal direction of a given character, and then enter it by pressing the single giant key-hat thing.
It's especially funny with Google being such a massive monolithic company, and there's the Japanese branch just doing their own thing.
I also participate in the Titanfall modding scene, and each year for April fools the Northstar master server displays everything in uwu language.
36Thank you for sharing!! All of those Gboard videos are absolute gold lmfao
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I think The Lockpicking Lawyer (YouTuber)has consistently put out good April's fools videos. I do have a sophomoric sense of humor though, and they are all based on innuendo.
29Context: BBC broadcast this on April 1st, 1957. A lot of people fell for it, seeking advice on growing spaghetti trees on their own. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax
25At the time spaghetti was relatively unknown in the UK, so many British people were unaware that it is made from wheat flour and water.
Spaghetti was unknown in the UK in 1957? My spaghetti history is woefully inadequate. The American school system failed me.
9The real prank was the American education system all along 🥲
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Now I Know?
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The StreetComplete app for Open Street Map had its map cursor being a Nyan cat with a rainbow trail behind it.
22A few Lemmy communities had at least an April Fool's Day joke or two from the mods. Unpopular Opinions is "Popular Opinions" today lol.
I do remember getting annoyed when Slashdot posted everything in ROT-13 on AFD several years back lol.
16I find it nuts when people do an april fool's joke that could actually be a thing. Like turning the Switch into a Google Cardboard style VR device.
15The annual chance to soft announce the stupid ideas that may be crazy enough to work with plausible deniability.
17There used to be a fun store called Think Geek that would announce a bunch of new products on April 1st. Some were clearly impossible, some they were actually planning to launch (usually more mundane stuff like shirts), some were things that were more “this is a joke but if enough people like it/express interest we’ll see if we can actually manufacture it/license the IP.” I liked the site and realized only a few months ago that I hadn’t seen anything from them in a long time. They were independent, then bought by the parent company of Slashdot but kept operating largely as normal, then were eventually sold to Hot Topic and I think that’s when it kind of went away. Looks like their site now redirects to GameStop.
8I was familiar. I even have some stuff still; shirts and desk toys. At one point they sold an external PC bay drive made by Thermaltake that was a literal cupholder/ashtray with a car style cigarette lighter that, supposedly, was functional. I never actually plugged it in though (put it in my PC, but didn't plug the lighter into the molex connector).
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Sadly I feel like this tradition is drying up more and more each year. I remember like 10-15 years ago tons of sites did really big things for the day. I honestly forgot today was April 1st until I saw this post. I miss it.
14Some absolute lunatic on Sysadmin made a joke about Broadcom purchasing Veeam.
No one should ever joke about being purchased by Broadcom after what they are doing to VMware.
13The folks over at !lightnovels@ani.social have been weighing books all day which has been fun :P
13Satisfactory's developer Coffee Stain Studio made a Satisfactory Direct video
It's under two minutes so it has a pretty good joke/time ratio
12My kids mom made him a "cake". It was actually meat loaf with dyed pink mashed potatoes instead of frosting.
8Yes, I've been known to partake in some. Was sitting in the front seat of a bus, and the buses have a rule where, at all the train tracks, they're supposed to briefly stop and open the bus doors to see if they hear any train coming before closing the door and driving onward again. The bus had stopped to do just that, and at that very moment, I played a train sound effect I had ready on my phone. The bus driver looks around and is weirded out by the "seeming invisible train".
7savagegeese (car youtube) put out an outstanding and genuinely hilarious video about a convertible Nissan SUV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6vprgDHFw0
520 minutes is way too long for a joke video.
2worth it tho
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Windows is very clean and performs very well
1stab a child
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