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Corporate takeover of April Fools' Day is such a stupid fucking aspect of modern society.

Pranks are at their best when they punch up, subversively point out the irrationality of existing power structures, or when they have no larger agenda or point. When they give you a moment to remember how absurd everything really is when you think about it.

Treating 4/1 as an excuse for PR departments to find a clever way to push their message just makes me sad.

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The only joke I was surprised and chuckled at was the stackoverflow limiting the amount of copy paste. I was annoyed for few seconds and then laughed out loud.

The rest of the jokes are obnoxious, trite, wannabe bandwagons. Maybe it's time corporates ease down on this worn out tradition?

Czech Mapy.cz (part of a big corporation for cz scale) also has a good one (almost) every year. This year they restricted you from browsing more than 10 km from your location and the map went blank after 9 PM, according to current covid restrictions here. Obviously, there was a simple way to escape it.

I dunno... Gmail was a pretty good April Fools.

As was Apple Computer.

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