Also it isn’t funny. Not in the “boo hoo that’s NOT FUNNY!” crybaby sense, but in the “99.999% of all standup comedy” sense. I’ve heard that in Foreign Lands you can’t pull a prank once the clock strikes noon, or else you are the April fool and presumably get put in a stock and pillory till sundown.
Yeah there’s not much jovial energy to go around either. Any time I see misinformation today I don’t go April Fools, I just try to ignore it and move on.
Lukewarm take: if the person being pranked doesn’t laugh during or immediately following the prank then it’s not a prank anymore, it’s just being mean to someone. Basically all the things “ruined” as pranks by the current situation fall under this, so it’s not really ruined at all.
Pranks also don’t work during periods of fascism … someone is liable to get arrested, beaten or taken away
This is basically the reason i picked my lemmy nom de plume. A sad small quip to remind myself and maybe others that they have made truth out of lies and lies out of truth.
Satire is getting really hard.
As an American I can say its actually gotten a lot easier, it’s all sad. Just sad all the time.
Ditto. If it’s not real right now, give it a week or so.
”Breaking news: Trump deported to Russia by the Trump administration”
It’s more like pranking your granny in the nursing home. Still plenty easy to do, but sad and cruel.
HEY GRANDMA! THIS ISN’T YOUR HOUSE!!!
HEY AMERICA! THIS ISN’T FASCISM! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!
This is very funny and also terribly sad
The Sarcasm Industry is on the verge of collapse … the last time that happened was in the 1930s
It’s a stretch, but i wonder if things like the onion, with us laughing at the insane stories has had any impact on the general reaction to what’s happening now. Like people don’t really care.
It’s not a stretch.
Q-Anon evolved from joking/trolling/shitposting/whatever_its_called on 4chan, some disinformation narratives share common roots with early internet satire.
I realise that’s not exactly what you meant, but I’m sure you see the common thread.
The Onion has instead switched to reporting real news.
I was thinking the same today: if the White House had fabricated an April Fool’s joke it would be unrecognizable - unless they developed a really black sense of humor and made a press release like “Trump tells SCOTUS to overturn immunity ruling”.
Incidentally, comedians all over the globe have been bitterly complaining about Trump stealing their show since 2016.
“Trump says he’s sorry and will resign effective immediately”
It has been stated that in these days of misinformation it is bad taste to publish April’s fools jokes.
I think it is more of a sign that citizens are terrible at distinguish between lies and facts, which is more depressing.Bro last night I was scrolling YouTube and I saw some 20 something dude with a toilet seat on his head just straight “skibidi dibidi dobidi doobidi” while bashing his head with toy school bus.
And there were like hundreds of people watching.
It was like an actual intergalactic TV channel from Rick and Morty.
Daria was on track.
That’s not funny, sad or weird
That’s a mental disorder
It’s April and we are all the fools.
It feels like there’s few pranks these days that don’t end up being cruel. We have enough horrifyingly outrageous things in the news, that is the prank is trying to make us think something horrible happened that didn’t, we sure don’t need that. On the other hand, if it’s trying to make us think that something good happened, but it didn’t, then that’s a really perverse cruelty.
It works if trying to pass off the prank as good news
Also there are so many satirical sites now, you can’t just look for Onion on the link anymore.
Not even that. Due to globalization you get warned beforehand by the East Asians, Middle East/Middle Asia and Africa/Europe.
