I used to enjoy April Fools but I haven’t been able to for years and unfortunately find it a day of frustration now.

I just realized I didn’t encounter any tricks this year. I’m thinking part of that is I’m spending a lot of my time on services I host so less chances for others to add the tricks.

It feels like rain on my roof. April Fool’s disruptions happening outside of the space I’ve made while my life can continue as I like inside, undisrupted.

  • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    My favorite April Fool’s joke was convincing my then-elementary age kids that they missed April Fool’s Day. Somehow I managed to do this completely deadpan. Them coming home from school and immediately yelling “DAD YOU TRICKED US” was the icing on the cake. They’re teenagers now and still talk about it. Good times.

    Recently though, I’ve grown a distaste for AF jokes in general. I fell for two of them within 10 minutes of waking up. One was a youtube creator (miniminuteman’s “Atlantis” episode" that he’s actually been working on for months), and the other was a buddy of mine on a Discord we’re in telling us that he blew his engine in his only vehicle.

    To be fair though, in years past I would find a photo of a wrecked vehicle that matched one of mine, same year/make/model/color, and post it on social media captioned with something to the effect of “well that was short-lived” or “luckily it was just me” or whatever. The last time I did it was a few years ago, my wife (then girlfriend at the time) called me within 10 minutes of posting it, clearly panicked, and demanding to know if I was at the hospital 😂 I should have looped her in, in hindsight. But I don’t do it anymore anyway because 1) everyone caught on 😅 and 2) fuck Facebook.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    7 hours ago

    April Fools

    I’m not much for the standard April Fools pranks. They start put with humor, but will inevitably be taken to far as each person involved tries to one—up the other.

  • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    33·
    16 hours ago

    I fell for the AMD buying Intel one because it was so dry that it didn’t feel like a prank and I still follow hardware news because of said self hosting.

    • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
      7·
      13 hours ago

      I saw the James Bond new casting one and was skeptical, but also half believed. I was skeptical enough to Google for other sources and the joke was spoiled by the top result.

  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Yeah, feel the same, curated RSS feeds also contribute significantly.

    The amount of BS flying daily in the ‘media’ and with AI slop makes every day April Fool’s anyway. A constructed environment means the BS detector doesn’t have to be on 24/7, which becomes tiresome.