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It's better to just ignore the whole thing. If a company/person/group decides to release something really cool on April 1, too bad... I won't be paying attention.
Not everyone can make a good joke. And those who are bad at making pranks are given the opportunity to stretch out beyond their comfort zone.
> It seems every single company and publication that communicates via the web has a corporate communications department or something that thinks it's a corporate priority to come out with something for April Fools. It's not really the lameness of April Fools Day, it's the lameness of internet businesses, social media marketing, or marketers and salesmen in general. They need to take over, trivialize, devaluate and de…
in hope to get some additional sales That's a copout, like blaming the legitimately elected political leaders in a democracy. _People_ do this to holidays and special events because they are easily impressed and inclined to follow social trends like lemmings. If people weren't so impressed by lameness, then the advertisers and marketers would attempt other ways to gather eyeballs. I shudder when I think of how unread…
There is alien life out there, organized into a federation. Their technology is so advanced to ours that remaining invisible to us is trivial. In order for our species to qualify for membership, we must first survive a series of evil pranks designed to kill or intellectually stultify us in the most darkly ironic way possible.
This is why we have automobiles, nuclear weapons, and April Fools.
And if you fall prey to a "prank" it's like, "wow you really got me great job" and that's it.
> It seems every single company and publication that communicates via the web has a corporate communications department or something that thinks it's a corporate priority to come out with something for April Fools. It's not really the lameness of April Fools Day, it's the lameness of internet businesses, social media marketing, or marketers and salesmen in general. They need to take over, trivialize, devaluate and de…
What's more lame, a business trying to attract attention to itself with humor, or a person trying to attract attention to himself or herself by loudly proclaiming how above it all they are?
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> It's okay to be silly sometimes, it's actually important. 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?
Blizzard's made me laugh. I think the Google Pokemon map was funny. The celebrity photobombs on the front page of Google. These are nerds making these not standup comedians. Pretty much every internet April Fools gag is funnier than SNL these days...
Don't forget to spend all day of the Super Bowl telling everyone on the Internet how you don't watch football.
You should realize that this is the internet, not America, and April's Fool is an American tradition.
April Fools' Day is amateur hour for people who aren't funny the other 364 days of the year. It's much like New Year's Eve for people who don't party or Valentine's Day for people who aren't romantic. They feel like they have to do this on this exact day, which of course leads to an embarrassing situation for everybody.
All of these holidays are also amateur hour for people who view themselves as intellectual social critics--people like the OP. I contend there are worse things that businesses can do with their time than think up bad jokes. Let's keep some perspective here, people.
1. Using "agile" as a noun.
2. Meetings.
3. Conflating http and CRUD with high tech.
No. We should have fun. This is geek humor, maybe some take it a bit too far, but still.