April Fools Day On The Internet - Eddache 

That one news prank about Americans not reading enough, once you know the context, is actually such a good prank and I love it. It acts as a classic April Fools prank while also providing some insight on how internet headlines are really the only thing that matter since no one reads the articles themselves.

This is why I like the Rick Roll. It's harmless, you get to listen to a good song, and everyone knows the punchline. Yeah, it's annoying, but it doesn't hurt anyone in any way.

My favorite April Fools prank was from [adult swim] in 2012. They began the night like previous years, beginning to play The Room. Then, about 30 seconds in they revealed TOM from Toonami and proceeded to play an entire night of classic Toonami anime and shows. When the word got out that Toonami was on, the viewership jumped from tens of thousands to millions. Seeing this response, Cartoon Network went on to actually bring Toonami back to air.

April fools trailers are always the ones that hurt the most, cause they are usually really well made

You wanna do an April Fools joke, just record a video of your son tumbling around on the floor. A Rik-Roll.

Whenever it’s April 1st I take everything I see online with a massive grain of salt

To me, April Fools pranks are like smacking a friend in the face with a cream pie. Maybe they'll laugh, maybe they'll get mad and maybe they'll get a strong allergic reaction because of an ingredient in the pie.

When I was about 10 years old, I found a news article about how the skeletal remains of a dragon had been discovered in a cave in England and, as child obsessed with dragons, I was so damn excited about it. I told anyone I could until I told an adult who had also seen the article and they told me it was an April Fools joke and I was SO crushed. I had seen it in the middle of May.

The Internet has made us all the fool.

Hearing an old timey British voice say “goofy ahh” is glorious

I feel the big underlying rule for April Fools should be the same for any prank. No one should get hurt. April Fools is probably my favorite holiday for the reason you mentioned. It's an excuse to do something different. My favorite youtubers make a video on something new, my friends reveal projects no one knew they were working on, games make gamemodes and events no one expected, and it gives me an excuse to to briefly disrupt my normal schedule with something chaotic. As long as we're all laughing together and no one is being hurt, bullied, or targeted I will always look forward to the April Fool.

I find April Fool's Day a bit tiresome, but I'm always impressed by the amount of work they put into the April Fool's versions of Minecraft.

"How are you supposed to do parody when everything is already ridiculous?" That's Poe's Law.

I like the end message. Too many people fall for stuff on the internet. I grew up with adults sarcastically saying “it’s on the internet so it must be true” and now the same people genuinely fall for that kind of stuff.

I think April Fools videos can be funny if they’re actually creative like Schaffrillas’ are, his Arcane review probably being one of his best April Fools videos if not the best

The kinds of April Fools that I like are when game companies actually release something as a playable joke. For example with Sega, which were 8-bit Bayonetta, Big's Big Fishing Adventure 3: Trial, and recently, The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog.

you know what I like, I like the April Fools jokes that are like a tradition, in the same format from year to year, like Minecraft’s April Fools updates. I like those, because it adds some goofy thing and sometimes even adds interesting concepts, such as new blocks like a power brick or stained glass, or whole new ways to play, like you can only carry one block at a time or slightly reimagined Minecraft as a 90s fps

I'm mildly sad Homestar Runner only got a brief mention. Their April Fools cartoons and site pranks were always a yearly treat back in the mid 2000s.

My favorite April Fool's joke was when Eddache gaslit me into thinking Home Alone was originally supposed to end with Kevin successfully killing Harry and Marv and ended up selling his story to become rich and famous, while his awful family was shunned for being so irresponsible and negligent. Good one mate, I'll get ya next time.

i think the best april fools prank is when something gets turned on its head instead of being a cheap trick. best example of that was the club penguin april fools parties where the entire island became this bizzare wonderland during those parties

The kind of april fool prank I can't stand is when some website or social network page or whatever claims that they're either closing down or shifting to a completely different thing. It's the exact same every year, it's kinda boring and sometimes you actually prefer the new fake argumentation than the old one.

when an april fool's joke is good, it's great, but when it's bad, it spirals out of control hella fast

Shoutout to RU-vidrs whose April Fool's Day videos are just out of the norm for their channel and something they still super care about. Unlike "I am Quitting?" video number 453 clouding my sub feed

Honestly Its more shocking when a RU-vidr makes a legit video for April fools day rather than prank .

The best April fools pranks are always the ones where you get something nice in the end. Homestar Runner having their classic April fools cartoons, adult swim doing toonami, it's playing with your expectations in a way that is delightful and surprising. It's the best when you think you're going to get something disappointing then you're giving something cool or fun instead. Making you look like an idiot is rude, completely uncalled for, but using the day to create something strange and beautiful or to make someone happy-- that's much more worth it for everyone.

I like the April Fools prank some RU-vidrs do. They take the time to make a video about something that is WILDLY outside of the scope of what their channel usually talks about, for example Big Yellow’s Insanaquarium video.

I love when April Fools day is an excuse to be weird and silly, but obviously fake. Last year's April Fools Day on youtube had some of my favourite pranks, with Dom Nobel doing an imaginary (and hilarious) Lost in Adaptation of the Room, with clever inside jokes to those who know about the production. Then Linkara posted a 100% serious Analogue Horror film called Winter of '83, catching everybody completely off guard! Plus the World of Warcraft April Fools patch notes are always hilarious. I think the phrase "Confuse, don't abuse" sums up the holiday nicely. Be silly, be weird, be funny, but don't do anything that can cause real-world harm.

I’m so happy to see someone bringing up how stressful April fools is for autistic people.

Some of my favorite April fools day jokes are the ones were someone takes a completely ridiculous idea, and then just treats it as seriously as possible.

I honestly believe that if you make an april fools video, about a day or two after, you should clearly label it as april fools, because it's annoying finding stuff months later that ends up being april fools

it sucks dealing with internet april fools when you're living in an early timezone before everyone else in the world. you'll get one or two jokes here or there, then when April 2nd arrives everyone else in the world has caught up and you're left sifting through piles of Jokes mixed in with actual news and information which is exhausting, and really dulls the fun creative pranks

my reason for hating April fools is that being Australian means its April 2nd for me when seemingly most of the internet starts to do it, like it still has the chance to be good i just dont like the ones when they trick people

Interestingly, Sega made an entirely brand new Sonic game just for April Fool's this year. It's a visual novel type game for free on Steam right now called "The Murder of Sonic The Hedgehog". It's actually decently long & very well made, ironically being one of the best Sonic spin-offs in the last decade I'd say.

You know it’s a good day when Eddache uploads

honestly I am autistic and I love aprils fools, and I think it is partially because I am so guillable. I have definitely had the same feeling where I got super excited about a new trailer or a thing happening... then it turned out I was tricked. But it reminds me to not take myself too seriously and then look back at whatever I fell for and see everything I missed. also googly eyes and comic sans is the peak of internet humour, I love it.

"Volkswagen in America" was founded in 1955 Volkswagen itself... Oh boy... as a German, I plead the Fifth.

The funniest April Fools Day prank of the internet has to be Cookie Clicker. Not because of any particular comedic value, but because of how the in-game seasons mechanics work, there's now just an in-game season that pretty much solely exists to do... nothing at all. Because changing it to be beneficial like every other season is would defeat the purpose of it being a prank. It's also, evidently, a NIGHTMARE for translators and modders, because it also changes a significant part of the game text. In short: the joke is exponentially more and more on the player the more technical they get, from minmaxxing to modding.

i dont mind april fool jokes that are incredibly harmless or overt- like just messing about without tricking or misleading people. themed accounts changing their names to literal meanings or entirely different themes. the collab works for just some goofs are also great. but yeah theres definitely something in people should actually read things and think criticaly

Only April Fools I dislike are things like RU-vid videos. Unless they are re-edited later to say up front that it was an April Fool's joke, then it can be very easy to miss that context if the video gets recommended to you several months after the fact.

April fools on the internet is especially great for Australians and New Zealanders who are always one day in front of the rest of the world

My favorite internet April fools joke was back in 2014 when Mojang, the developers of Minecraft, forced a resource pack into everyone's game that replaced all the game's sounds with a villager's voice that narrated everything, and all player skins were replaced with villagers. It was so funny going into servers that day and seeing everyone's reactions!

Sega is launching a free Sonic murder mystery game for April Fools Day. Not even the day yet and they've won.

Deviant Art switching up everyone's avatars was a lot of fun. Circles of friends could look around and see who was turned into what for the whole day. The Twilight Teams avatars is what I loved most. Some users, including myself, saved lots of those gifs for later. I remember there was even a Team Lady Gaga floating around in some places. A LOT of work was put into that Twilight prank. :3

April Fools day is both my favorite, and least favorite day on RU-vid. Least favorite because most of the videos in my subscriptions aren't worth watching because lol itsajoke. But then you get those special channels that take the day an opportunity to do something out of left field, but in a familiar way. Like FalseSwipeGaming talking about the "competitive history" of various joke Pokémon like Delibird, or Big Yellow, a channel mainly about competitive fighting games, deciding to talk about Insaniquarium because he likes the game.

13:31 Using Stańczyk to illustrate the problems caused by incessant light-heartedness hit deep. PS: For those not in the know, Stańczyk was a court jester, and this painting of him depicts him mourning the decisive defeats his country suffered as the court indulges in pleasures, uncaring of the gravity of situation.

My favorite April Fools Joke was for the Yakuza series. They uploaded a video saying that their next game would be a turn based RPG as a joke, but it turns out that people were really down for that idea. So, in response, the entire god damn series transitioned into a turn based RPG.

Probably one of the funniest things that come out of april fools is games actually making an effort and changing into a jokey mess.

I'm autistic and I love April Fool's because it'd so easy to look at the date and switch my brain from expecting the truth to expecting a prank. It gives me a day where I can be in on the joke. I also love when April Fool's is used as an excuse to just be weird and different, like with r/place. In general, if people participate with good nature, it's really fun.

My mother's birthday is April 1st so I inherited her disdain for the "holiday"

Fun fact: every year minecraft has done an April fools update, some examples include: adding ar headsets and other scifi stuff, making the villagers takeover the game, creating infinite dimensions, a parody of micro transactions back in 2010 (I believe it was 2010), and a parody of old shareware

Wokey Kong is one of the best things I’ve ever seen

April Fool’s Day can be a day where you can’t really trust anything, but it can also be a good excuse for some people and companies to do something weird and ridiculous that will hopefully not cause any actual harm.

When I was in college, I was writing a fanfiction that was basically a parody of those classic "Mac/PC" commercials, but with Pokémon and Digimon. One April Fool's Day, when Pokémon Black/White 2 had yet to be released, I dedicated one chapter to revealing a "plot synopsis" of the new games; I made it incredibly dark and gritty in a way that no Pokémon game had or would ever be before immediately revealing the joke. Between the comedic nature of the overall fanfic, the over-the-top dark tone of my synopsis, and the release date, I figured no one would take it too seriously. I got two comments that day telling me they thought it was real.

What I find annoying living in Australia where it’s less of a cultural phenomenon I see all these online April fools jokes on April 2nd, so if the prank is saying something close to reality I genuinely get confused/excited for the next 20 seconds until I realise it’s April fools in the rest of the world

Good time to watch this!

I miss when April fool's was just harmless fun like hiding a charger or making somone think they had food on their shirt or something

yo, let’s turn April Fools day into Earth day, but instead of being about spreading environmental awareness, it’ll be about misinformation awareness

I like how it’s possible that someone could say “I hate the minions because they made me lose my job” and it’s completely true

1:13 I hate how much that made me laugh

Anytime you see something newsworthy on March 31st-April 2nd, you just need to switch out your glasses for Skepticles. Afterwards, if there hasn't been a correction, then and only then, can you take it seriously. Thanks for the video, I didn't know about probably 80% of these April Fools Pranks!

My best April Fools Day prank happened a few years ago when I was a student. I set up a fake Gmail account and convinced a few of my friends they’d signed up to a subscription service to receive “exclusive images” of TV host Dale Winton in their inbox every day, for £8.99 a month (the “price of his shopping list”). They ratted me out fairly quickly. How we laughed, until Winton sadly died two weeks later. The two events are unrelated. RIP you bouncy bonus legend ❤

The best April fools prank I can think of is when someone asks me to put ice in their cup, I'll put in one instead of multiple. I haven't done it yet but this it took me a while to come up with this prank, I don't think it would have been done before

I really don't like April fools day I've always felt like pranks are just an excuse to be mean to others, then shame them for being upset A lot of the internet pranks are either just straight up lying and getting your hopes up (as mentioned in the video) or jumpscares. As an autistic person, I am easily fooled AND really sensitive to jumpscares. It doesn't help that those videos stick around forever too.. The only April fools videos I do accept are when people just take it as an excuse to make a really in depth video about something they're passionate about, but wouldn't fit their usual style of videos. Those are fun

Man, Colin's Bear Animation is a blast from the past!

As an asexual Pluto fan, I am a little confused as to why the asexual visibility and education network would report on Pluto being reclassified as a planet

You don't need to save me from Rick Rolls. I love being Rick Rolled. Never Gonna Give You Up is an eternal banger. It was all those Rick Rolls years ago that made me fall in love with the song, actually. The combination of the Mere Exposure Effect and the song actually being quite good made it so.

I really like that NPR April Fools. It exposes so many people who were fooled.

I really like april fools on Tumblr. The boops, thè crabs, the buttons... They all foster community and give everyone a fun day.

That thing about the fake Zelda Movie trailer really hits the nail on the head with the problem with the April Fools jokes. Adult Swim really knows how to do it

The channel Geography now has great April fools day videos where they make up a wakey country that doesn't exist & it kinda sounds real for some of them but as it goes on you'll usually realise its a joke but damn are they funny.

There's this Dutch Sonic RU-vidr I follow, Roger Van DerWeide, I look forward to his output on April's first

Ooh, eddie, sorry! Volkswagen OF AMERICA was formed in 1955.

I like how Strong Bad rather do old school irl pranks than general internet goofs

Thank you for mentioning the autism thing. The day is always weird for me because of that, and it’s on the very short list of things I don’t like about being autistic

I myself have autism and on April fools I genuinely believed an article that said Henry cavill was going to be in doctor who, had a good half an hour calming down and it was only up until watching this video that I went back to check and my mood kind of dampened.

I seen a video where they explained the reason they don’t like April fools is because they didn’t consent to be pranked. When you prank a friend you have an agreement that you’ll prank each other but on April fools anyone and everyone is willingly or not open to pranks. Which I thought was a good take. I go enjoy the silly one though like when RU-vid allowed Darude Sandstorm to be played on all videos or Razer announcing something silly.

When I was a kid, my mom only ever ‘pranked’ me once. She filled my school lunchbox with raw broccoli. The worst part is, I didn’t get it. I was just extremely confused, and because I had to eat something I just had lots of raw broccoli for lunch that day.

The reason I hate it is when companies announce services and products that are genuinely what people want, then pulling the rug out from under us *cough* Valve, Half-Life, the number 3 *cough*

y'all remember the ph prank? they said that they would automatically send friends and family your favorite videos

My least favorite part of April fools is that most people don't actually make jokes, they just lie, and then say April fools afterwards, expecting you to laugh.

The worst thing is timezones mean its on for 2 days. 1 day for all the australian april fools pranks, then another for the rest of the west to do it.

Can’t for every RU-vidr to talk about how they’re “quitting RU-vid” or releasing a video everyone wanted except it’s not that video tomorrow!

Whenever April Fools Day comes around, I always stay off of the internet and play some offline singleplayer games instead. Also, about r/place, it is true that the event in 2017 was just a fun event, but the 2022 event unintentionally became a prank when Reddit decided to wipe the canvas in the last hour, getting rid of days of everyone's hard work (probably because they found out streamers like XQC were using their audience to be toxic by targeting smaller factions to draw over tons of art). A year later, and a lot of people are still angry at Reddit for that decision.

Back in 2012, some people managed to gain access to the roblox admin panels and caused chaos to the site. Since it was April Fools when it happened, most thought it was a joke until the site had to be shut down. It was kinda genius to do that on April 1st of all days because others would think it was just a prank. But now the date goes down in roblox history.

Laura Kate Dale told my favorite April fools prank about that lyric that Nintendo put in Smash Bros when Joker was added. Absolutely hilarious 😂

While it was touched on in the video, my biggest problem with April Fools on the internet is that it is no longer condensed into just April 1st. The entire point of April Fools is that you aren't supposed to believe anything you're told on April 1st, and yet because of how algorithms work its not uncommon to be recommended the videos or articles days or months later, long after the joke's passed by. This year I only got one or two April Jokes articles in my recommended feed on the 1st, and yet every single one of them was a joke on the 3rd. Worse then that, I've often been recommended joke articles all the way in September or October. At that point it's no longer playing you for being naïve, it's just outright lying to you! And it's not like this is a problem that has to exist. Most of these websites have in-depth algorithms for detecting what content is in a piece of media and weather or not to recommend it for something. If RU-vid can smack a demonetization for saying "fuck" in a video, there's nothing stopping these sites from adding an "April Fools" tag that is automatically applied to content posted on the 1st, and then just blocking content with that tag on other days of the year. Make it an opt in function for those who aren't posting jokes if you have to. It would save so much headache.

My favourite April Fool's tradition is by a german RU-vidr called LooksLikeLink. Every year, he "releases" new Merch. We had Action Figures, music albums (dude can't sing at all), NFTs, a video game and more. This year, he released his "first" ASMR video. I love how he does it, making those announcement funny to watch even years later

The daftest thing about April Fools Day is that it is on the same bloody day every single year... and the fact that many people still accomplishes to get fooled by something on this date, just makes me want to move to another planet, preferably occupied with fever apes of lesser hair.

Thank you so much for discussing how April 1st is a minefield for us Autists. The amount of mean-spirited and deceptive "pranks" make me feel so dumb, especially when I try and cross reference something to check it's validity.

A bit of a mundane one, but I think my favorite online April Fool's internet moments were either the Box dimension from Club Penguin, and when Bulbapedia became Slowpedia.

This year was a good April Fools for Adult Swim. It seemed like they were gonna air season 2 of Smiling Friends, only for them to air episodes from season 1 remade with puppets instead, only for them to air the first episode of season 2 immediately after.

I have mixed feelings about April's Fools. There are pranks that I like (like having content with a clickbait title that reveal the punchline only when clicked, like the Rick Roll or that thing about reading), but I hate the pranks that misinform or make you genuinely believe in things that will never be real.

I fought in the Great War of r/place last year. I ended up uniting the TWEWY, Kid Icarus and Earthbound fandoms as one whole alliance. It was glorious

11:13 if you read it properly it says "In 1955 Volkswagen *of America* was founded in 1955"

Congrats for being on Nebula! Time to go rewatch all your videos over there!

I still single one of my favourite and I daresay the best April Fools pranks that I ever heard of was actually done by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Who on the day that the premiere of the second season of South Park was set to air decided instead to make an extra episode in the season in order to play an elaborate April Fool's joke as the first episode was set to be broadcast on April Fools. So instead of getting the conclusion to the two-part episode involving Cartman's parentage. Instead they did an entire half hour episode devoted to Terrance and Phillip in Universe standings for what critics were saying about South Park itself. And fans were super pissed about this

Honestly glad you thought to mention autistic people having more trouble discerning jokes from truth. The feeling of getting excited for something and then being disappointed it isn't real is quite unfortunate. I much prefer when people use April Fool's to do funny things rather than going "You thought this would be something cool but gotcha!"

The problem with living in a timezone that is a day ahead of so much of the world: You keep falling for April Fools jokes on the internet because for you it's NOT APRIL FOOLS ANYMORE!

This April Fools, a chatroom I normally visit decided to change their UI as a joke. However- it wasn't just a simple change, everything on the screen was spinning. The sprites, the text, the icons. Everything. I got extreme motion sickness from this, and complained to the moderators on the discord server. A couple of my friends and other people agreeded the prank was nauseating. But a handful of other people said: "What's the big deal, it's not that bad." I felt dizzy and sick. April fools can be fun, but not when people don't fully think the 'prank' through.

Dan Fornace got hit hard with this with his game Rivals of Aether. Every major announcement has happened on April 1st, and it makes it difficult for them to do April Fools jokes.