Stacey Cornelius 🇨🇦Someone suggested not pulling any April Fool's pranks this year and I think we all need to get on board with that.
Because, you know, all this.
Larry@StaceyCornelius
When The Onion produces stories more believable than the New York Times?
When The Onion produces stories more believable than the New York Times?
@quoidian Fair point.
Assimilateborg@StaceyCornelius @quoidian a german satirical paper has the tradition to only produce real news stories on 1st of April. And it's so amazingly good.
@assimilateborg Oh that's brilliant.
Khleedril@StaceyCornelius Crap, you had me thinking it was April already.
@khleedril It’s coming fast
Sharp Cheddar Goblin@StaceyCornelius Agreed. I've been boycotting April Fool's Day for quite a few years now.
Von Xylofon@StaceyCornelius Let's all pretend everything is back to normal for one day. As a prank. A cruel one, at that.
@vonxylofon Ugh, you nailed it, my friend.
Dudula the Dud@StaceyCornelius I hate pranks at any time of year, but yes, I agree: You want to prank people in THIS world?!
me·ta·phil, der@StaceyCornelius … or if we could at least agree on not electing April Fools jokes as state leaders, you know, that'd be something
@metaphil I'd be on board with that.
Janus@StaceyCornelius I already had to verify the news yesterday to see whether they've pulled April Fool's early. But: no, it was an official announcement by the US government.
Jenny (cozy node) 
@StaceyCornelius If the Horrors are what it takes to finally convince people to stop being assholes and posting fake news on April 1st, it still will not have been worth it but I won't be complaining.
Comfortably Numb@StaceyCornelius April Fool's sucked in the best of times, now it would suck 10 times more.
Dark Matter Zine@StaceyCornelius Josh Johnson and the guy who hosts the daily show podcast chatted about that and about how April Fools is just fraught now. TBH I tend to think of April fools as being quite nasty, mean spirited. But my fave pranks: an Aussie radio show asked ppl to cut a bit of their lawn & leave it out the front for collection to take to the Antarctic to create a footy field; Princess Di’s very public super weird birthing event so weird that I thought WTF until I remembered it was April Fools
@DarkMatterZine The one prank I really enjoy has been going on for years, on the CBC Radio show As It Happens.
They always have one fake story on April 1. Their writers are fantastic, so it's extra fun trying to figure out which one is the prank story.
One year it was the announcement of a $3 coin. Some listeners fell for it. There were irate emails.
I dislike mean-spirited pranks, but the patchwork footy field is pretty fun.
@StaceyCornelius yes, me too. I like the fun ones though.
tripleman, a 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪@StaceyCornelius The orange shitbag will kick the bucket on April One sending waves of IS THIS TRUE OR NOT crashing around like a tsunami in a fjord.
Moe Lassus@StaceyCornelius I’ve ignored April Fools Day since 2016 when we were hit with the worst April Fools joke in recent history.
Carolyn@StaceyCornelius The line is so blurred between satire and reality, that it would’ve too easy to believe something.
Laura@StaceyCornelius My blog has a very tame, traditional prank that I do every year. Not going to stop now because of some old men's whims, not even indirectly.
@landelare The great thing about those is it's a treat for your readers and they look forward to it! A great way to approach it imho
Tubemeister@StaceyCornelius
April Fools is trust nothing on the internet day.
Every day is trust nothing on the internet day…
April Fools is trust nothing on the internet day.
Every day is trust nothing on the internet day…
Muro deGrizecoUnderstood.
For Halloween, we do a bit of decorating, dress in costumes, hand out candy to kids.
I told my youngest,
"We try to mindful of the tone, not be super grim or really scary. Times like now are already really scary and super grim, and we don't want to add to that."
@murodegrizeco That's really good.
luca@StaceyCornelius There's no April Fool's stranger than everyday's news. Real and fake, of course.
Maybe someone should inform me when we're *out* of an April Fool's.
Maybe someone should inform me when we're *out* of an April Fool's.
Drew 🇵🇭 ♾️@StaceyCornelius April Fool's has been ongoing for the last couple of years.
Court Cantrell does not comply@StaceyCornelius Count me in. I'm not a fan of pranks anyway, and never pull them. There's something in pranks that is meant to elevate the prankster at the expense of the victim's sense of safety and well-being. Anytime I've been on the receiving end of a prank, I've gotten the distinct message that the prankster wanted me to feel small.
Chris Mackay 🇨🇦@StaceyCornelius April Fool’s Day online hasn’t been fun for close to 30 years.
@tantramar I wouldn’t mind being Rickrolled tbh
aburka 🫣@StaceyCornelius I was thinking about writing a long post on my company's slack about how everyone knows I've been the holdout AI critic but I've finally seen the light and I'm drinking jet fuel etc etc April fools
The Crafty Miss@StaceyCornelius Allowable pranks are exclusively:
- Sending a photo of the dog in the driver's seat and pranking them that Fido took your keys for a roadtrip
- Pretending a cardboard box is haunted but actually there's a cat inside
- olden style food that looks like a different food but is still delicious
- heading to work/school/etc but you turn a different way en route. when they say 'hey, this is the wrong way' you reveal you're all got the day off for something delightful instead
@StaceyCornelius Replacing April Fool's Day with April Delights Day