Worst April Fools' Day pranks

[maple22]

What do you think were the worst April Fools' Day pranks this year?

Some ones I found particularly bad:
- Build-a-Bear's Build-a-Bae dating app
- Elon Musk's rap
- the "Discocover Weekly" thing on Spotify
- McDonald's milkshake dipping sauces

 

[Antonio]

Bell Week #2

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

Bell Week #2

I'm looking into disabling my pm's for today.

 

[Paperboy012305]

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Animal Crossing Community. Anyone remember that terrible joke?

 

[cornimer]

I'm on a build a bear forum and they were sooo mad about the dating app lol

 

[Lady Timpani]

I'm on a build a bear forum and they were sooo mad about the dating app lol

I had no idea such a beast existed... this is amazing and adorable hahaha.

 

[LambdaDelta]

- McDonald's milkshake dipping sauces

this is one of the worst because it's not real, right?

 

[Wallows]

ACNL's servers being shut down

 

[AccfSally]

A fake tweet from Nintendo about Animal Crossing Switch that was going around on Tumblr.

 

[Paperboy012305]

A fake tweet from Nintendo about Animal Crossing Switch that was going around on Tumblr.

Welp, you got me. Nintendo didn’t tweet anything about AC Switch.

 

[red_odessa]

It wasn't a prank, at least I friggin hope not, but fate got me real good today. My letter confirming a doctors checkup got mixed up with a a disease diagnosis letter. So for about 3 hours today I was envisioning my life being completely different, like a before and after.

I was googling this serious disease and processing a lot until the doctor rings me pretty much saying "oops letters were mixed up sorry lol". It is so hilariously apt for April fools day, I can admit it's darkly funny.

 

[salty-]

3 groups I'm in on discord (including the bell tree's discord group) are all doing the icon with the red message symbol on it, it got me in the morning but now it's just bugging me because I hate seeing it there. One of the group's did the exact same thing last year too so I have a feeling this will be a yearly occurrence for them now.

 

[rianne]

For this year alone, I can think of a few:

• Justin & Hailey Bieber's pregnancy joke. Pretty tame and overdone
• Tokidoki's Cactus Bunny Treats announcement (they're obvs. edgy prickly Peeps)
• Tinder's height verification feature

And some on Snopes' lil curated list of their faves for this year's pranks.

 

[ali.di.magix]

The food companies like to go mad with their april fool's "creations". Although that Creme Egg flavoured mayonnaise by Heinz from last year, they've made it into an actual thing and it sounds rank. I still believe it is a joke