April Fools Day is the dumbest holiday in existence
The only person laughing is usually the person who made the joke and it’s generally just irritating to everyone else who just wants to get on with their day. I might feel differently if we like, got the day off work for April Fools Day I guess
everyone having fun
“Uh hi yeah actually this sucks”
gets downvoted
“Wtf guys what did I do?”
I absolutely loathe this day. Most of it is just dumb, silly and annoying. Especially when this dumb shit gets forced on you by companies whose marketing teams think they’re clever.
I also used to work at a radio/TV station where we covered pranks during april fools. That was a real eye-opener: there are waaaaay too many idiots out there who fall for jokes and take things at face value. Basically, they’re a cruel way to mess with vulnerable, gullible people.
Now, if someone wants to make a joke at their own expense, go for it. But don’t do it at the expense of others.
Bingo, on both accounts. April 1 is now a marketing tool for companies, and all of those are just annoying now (mostly because they’re so worried about the blowback they won’t do anything anyway)
And for the second, way too many people forget that jokes end with both parties laughing at the end. Maybe something missed something, or fell for something, but it should be small and lighthearted, not something where they actually feel embarrassment or anger afterwards. If only the joke teller is laughing, then it wasn’t funny.
Now lighthearted things where both people end up laughing? Have at it, it’s one day of lighthearted joking.
Don’t get me started on Christmas….
At our radio station, we start Christmas music on December 6th, right after the Dutch celebration of Sinterklaas. And like every other station out there, we play the same exact ten songs every hour until december 27th.
Most people probably aren’t really aware, but as a station you get sent a LOT of unsolicited music. Which also includes a ton of Christmas themed songs starting around June. Everyone wants to be the next Mariah Carey.
One year, our music programmers decide to get creative: “Everyone has the same playlist. Fuck that! We’ll play the Christmas songs nobody else plays!”
So they meticulously comb through that mountain of CD’s that we got throughout the year, digging up the proverbial diamonds in a pile of manure. And they put together a lovely playlist featuring unique, decent songs.
December 6th rolls around. 9 AM. It’s The Big Day. The new playlist goes live. By 9.15 the first calls come in. By 10 AM, the phone is red hot with calls. By 11 AM, someone phones in an honest-to-God death threat. The listeners aren’t having it; they want goddamn Mariah Carey or nothing at all. So by midday, the new playlist gets yanked and replaced by four-times-per-hour ‘All I want for Christmas is you’.
And since that year, we know better than to get creative around Christmas. Don’t fuck with Mariah Carey fans…
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Do you not normally work on April 1st if it doesn’t fall on a weekend or Easter Monday?
It’s absolutely gotten way worse the past 15 years or so.
As someone who works for a newspaper: the days leading up to and directly following april 1st tend to be very frustrating because of this.
Usually starting on the 30th, we get the first ‘funny’ press releases, with most showing up on the 31st. Which means you have to be extra careful not to use something that SEEMS plausible enough not to warrant extra suspicion on days other than april 1st.
As journalists, we’re perhaps more aware than most regarding potential pranks. We’re always taught to question sources. Which makes it all the more annoying that so many companies and organisations try to pull one over on us. Making reliable, accurate news is difficult enough as it is without all these fuckers trying to poison the well.
Basically, companies and organisations who do it usually get their press releases trashed for a month afterwards on principle. Waste my time? Welcome to the trash bin.
Most “pranks” are just a) terribly unfunny, b) actually bullying by another name, or c) both.
If we could just keep the rare good ones I’d be all for it, but alas!
Is the joke that it sits there loading forever, or are the privacy extensions in my browser breaking it?
(Either way, kinda disappointed that it isn’t a rickroll.)
Ditto.
I honestly didn’t realize yesterday was April Fools Day until I read this post a few minutes ago. I worked all day, and I’m a little sick, so I read a book, ate dinner, chatted with my partner, who never mentioned it, and I went to bed early.
I guess it just depends on where you live and who you’re around. And because I wasn’t on social media or Lemmy etc much yesterday, I just didn’t even notice.
It’s not a real holiday.
Christmas and Easter are more foolish.
It’s… not a holiday? It’s just a thing people did and sometimes still do.
You sound bitter. Sorry someone tried to have fun around you.
Nah man, keep in mind what people have considered jokes in the past x years. The “its only a prank” crowd in the past years have been absolutely atrocious. In fact they have not been jokes or pranks at all.
They have been things to totally humiliate the people. I have a feeling this is the kind of joke or prank that happened.
Even if its not the case, its totally possible the joke caused multiple people to laugh AT OP instead of WITH everyone.
A good prank gets the prankee to laugh along with everyone. For instance sending a singing telegram to someone would cause slight embarrassment, but would still be entertaining for everyone involved as long as they don’t work at a funeral home or something like that.
The dumbest ones are when they mess with someone’s car by covering it with something or filling it with something like plastic balls or whatever. That’s just mean and not creative.
Nah man, keep in mind what people have considered jokes in the past x years…
Such as? What April fools jokes are you talking about specifically?
I’m referencing and responding to the “sorry someone tried to have fun with you” comment.
If someone isn’t a fan of pranks or jokes it’s most likely the result of a bad prank/joke that was mean spirited. Jake Paul comes to mind.
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