Between 20, the world would get ten Fast and Furious films. I could live in a speculative future like this one. In the year 2025, ads will run for Fast & Furious 17.
Timehop, an app that revisits social media moments from our past, gave its users a preview of the future. Take for example the best selling book, Turning the Tables: The Rick Story by Rick. The design is cute and the idea is weird, but what I adore is the surge of fan art. The nominees include Mop, Rick, Deborah, and Wretched Tooth. Tumblr is allowing its users to vote for their preferred lizard leader. "A" for delivering an axe with a parachute.
Google Express delivers an axe by parachute I distrust the entirety of March, knowing that just like Christmas, the celebration of April Fools' Day will creep earlier and earlier into the year. As Gizmodo noted at the time, "what justifies its $27,500 price tag is a housing made from a solid piece of 4.5-billion-year-old moon rock, collected from our lunar neighbor back in 1974 by the Soviet’s Luna probe." Gizmodo quickly updated their post, noting the watch's status as a goof. To crush the will of internet writers across the globe, the Moon Watch was announced yesterday - which was not April Fools' Day. Moon Watch fools internet because internet desperately wants Moon Watch
"Tracks kitty's physiological patterns to learn more about kitty's likes, dislikes, and things it doesn't know how to tell you."."We created this toy to make sure that cats will always be mentally and emotionally stimulated." The features available in the vibrator designer's cat toy line fall on the right side of cheeky word play. "I’ve heard one too many stories about kitties becoming easily bored with cat toys," says Lioness CEO Liz Klinger. Grade: A- Vibrator company pivots to smart cat toys A copy of Dark Souls 3 is also an acceptable gift.
This is the danger of a good April Fools' joke: I'm now disappointed Dark Souls 3: The Movie isn't a real thing. What's my favorite, you ask? The Flavor of the Day Desktop Calendar, pictured above, of course!ĭark Souls 3: The Movie breaks hearts of hopeful fans This year, ThinkGeek's promoting the SpaceX Vertical Landing Mentos & Diet Coke Rocket, a Star Trek White Noise Sleep Machine, a Useless Light Switch, the VR Sensory Immersion Generator, an Attack on Titan Colossal Titan Lawn Ornament, Magic: The Gathering - Travel Edition, a Plumbus from Rick and Morty, and role-playing drinking game. ThinkGeek's April Fools' gags are typically thoughtfully conceived faux-products, some of which become real products once enough fans offer enough money. ThinkGeek announces April Fools’ Day product line-up
Feel free to lend a hand in the comments. In an effort to maintain my optimism on this unholy holiday, I've ranked the internet's April Fools' pranks from best to worst. Pepsi 1893? That can't be a thing! And yet, it is. April Fools' Day brand activations have become so powerful that real announcements will be mistaken for lame gags simply because of their vicinity in time. We know the whoopee cushion is on our metaphorical office chair, and yet we sit nonetheless. "Look," says the April Fools' gag, fretted over by a billion dollar publicly traded entity, "we can have fun, too!"Īnd the April Fools' publicity stunt works. I imagine April Fools' Day is like a pagan festival for publicists, copywriters, and junior marketing directors, who on the first of April get to ignore their bosses and put that MBA in Creative Writing to good use. You get the sense, on April Fools' Day, that a certain set of people really love their job. I agree the annual day of pranks and goofs has become a shallow excuse for brands to cloyingly plea for our attention, but sometimes that desperation can transcend into genuine humor.