According to Wikipedia:
April 1st is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1.
So why in the hell are we spreading foolish propaganda 7-10 days before the day? I have seen blog posts all week where commenters say, “is this an early April Fools Joke?” and the authors of the blogs admit it’s a joke and everyone has a laugh. NO THAT’S NOT HOW APRIL FOOLS DAY WORKS! April Fools Day is on April 1st and doesn’t fall on any other day. If it’s March 24th, that’s not the day that you post jokes. If you think it’s funny to trick your readers then go fucking trick your readers ON APRIL FOOLS DAY!
Let’s break this down for a moment. Imagine it’s October 15th and a kid in a Dracula costume knocks on your door and asks for candy; are you going to laugh or are you going to go, “oh it all makes sense because it’s October it must be halloween.” NO THE KID IS DUMB AND NEEDS TO GET HIS DATES RIGHT! That’s how you handle that. Or your wife freaks out because you didn’t get her a valentines day card on January 28th. OF COURSE YOU DIDN’T CAUSE VALENTINES DAY IS 2 WEEKS AWAY!
If someone in congress or Wikipedia wants to agree that it should be March-April Fools 2 Week Extravaganza and make it a law then I’ll be totally fine with this dimwitted holiday but until then, you’re all a bunch of idiots who can’t read a freaking calendar.
AND ANOTHER THING! If you are a company that makes real money and employs real people for which you pay then you aren’t allowed to make April Fools Jokes. YOU JUST CAN’T! Google, your stupidity on April 1st should be illegal. I honestly think stockholders should sue you for posting joke products on that day because your fake announcements are misleading and it’s the equivalent of lying about your earnings or lying about layoffs. People should be fired for lying at a publicly traded company.
Since this kind of joking has been going on for years now even by large companies like CNN, Google and Microsoft, I understand and my solution is to just turn of RSS, Twitter and my Cell Phone on April 1st because I know that everything is complete bullshit. However, what’s really pissing me off is this complete childish bullshit is leaking out into March and it’s wrong. I trust things that are posted on blogs with over 1 million monthly page views. I trust announcements from publicly traded companies and I understand that 4/1 isn’t the day to trust anyone but now that the last 2 weeks in March is full of lies, I don’t know who to trust.
One final thing. If you are going to do a “March-April Fools 2 Week Extravaganza” please have the fucking courtesy of putting up a blog post telling your readers what was actually fake and what was real over the past 2 weeks. Be responsible to your readers, advertisers and investors.
Thanks for reading.
I agree, though I do think it’s okay for companies like Google to do April Fools jokes, as long as it’s clear that 99% of people will understand that it’s a joke.
For example, this is okay: http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
While this is definitely not: http://www.google.com/romance/
I agree, though I do think it's okay for companies like Google to do April Fools jokes, as long as it's clear that 99% of people will understand that it's a joke.
For example, this is okay: http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
While this is definitely not: http://www.google.com/romance/