Thing about April Fool's Day is, a lot of it was media-driven, and that only worked when people thought the media was generally trustworthy. "Here's one day a year when you can't believe what you read!!!" no longer lands quite the same
Plus! That "hilarious" April Fool's Day story, which would previously have been wrapping fish and chips on April 2nd, now lives forever in news organisations' online archives, creating something of a headache for them