I’ve come to really hate April Fool’s Day. I never used to care. As a kid, April Fools pranks were annoying things like locking doors, tying shoe laces together, and nonsense like that. Things that might be annoying, or even amounting to physical assault, but ultimately nothing that toyed with my feelings.
In the age of the Internet, though, all April Fools Day pranks are are people just very lazily trying to get me excited for things, and that feels so, so, so much more malicious than anything the schoolyard bullies ever did.People and vectors I rely upon for information just become really sloppily unreliable for a full day out of the year, while they smugly pat themselves on their own backs for engaging in some social ritual I (apparently mistakenly) thought we’d all outgrown by the time we were 10.
lime! Yes! This is the kind of thing I’d be OK with. Unfortunately, I’m seeing people on social media just post about highly anticipated rumours being announced by companies and whatnot, which serves no purpose other than to get people who haven’t looked at the calendar excited about something they’ve been quietly hoping for for a long time, and it just seems to mean and unkind.
honestly, i just vote with my attention. if that’s what they think is worth my time, i just remove them from my feed. it applies all year.