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> I have a sense of humor. Really I do. The problem is that very few of the jokes that any of these companies pull are even a little humorous. There have been a few funny/clever ones, but they're the 1%.
Are you sure? I think you're taking yourself and the internet a little too seriously. If the jokes aren't funny don't laugh and don't click. If it really bugs you go ahead and spend a day without reading news on the internet, you'll survive, I promise.
April Fools is interesting on the internet because attention is rewarded and that encourages companies to put real effort into silliness. It's okay to be silly sometimes, it's actually important. The fact of that a company like Google still has a sense of humor about itself renews my faith in them a little bit.
Look at Blizzard's April fools:
http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/games/outcasts/
The credit card slots in the controller to make for easier microtransactions. With the new business models they're using for Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm it's actually pretty funny. The fact that they're acknowledging it softens me to them even just a little bit.
Some of us look forward to April Fools on the internet, maybe the jokes are lame but the effort makes the event interesting.
"Hate April Fools? Consider taking a 24 hour offline holiday instead of telling everyone over and over how much you hate April Fools."
[I'm going to take his advice and get off HN for the rest of the day.]
This is the second post about how people don't like April Fools Day. Are we replacing the actual April Fool jokes with posts moaning about them? I'm not sure that's much of an improvement.
> I have a sense of humor. Really I do. The problem is that very few of the jokes that any of these companies pull are even a little humorous. There have been a few funny/clever ones, but they're the 1%.
"I have a sense of humor. Really I do." Are you sure? I think you're taking yourself and the internet a little too seriously. If the jokes aren't funny don't laugh and don't click. If it really bugs you go ahead and spend a day without reading news on the internet, you'll survive, I promise. April Fools is interesting on the internet because attention is rewarded and that encourages companies to put real effort into…
I agree with this entirely, but I think the argument here is that none of these corporate April Fool's jokes are silly, or funny, or clever, or interesting. They're the minimum effort to justify being a "gag" in order to farm page hits. Honestly, when was the last April Fool's prank that "got you" or made you laugh?
But there are unicorns on Stack Overflow.
Then they ruined it with their stream of fake shitty joke news.
I think next year I'm going to take the advice posted by someone else here and just take April 1 off. I'll just spend the day playing games or something else away from anything other people are doing.