Every day I go 2 work at my office desk job, and waste 70-90% of the day reading blogs and websites. These websites construct my reality, even moreso than real people and events in my life. It’s great to read them and be connected to events that are happening every where and no where at the same time. I like feeling like I am a part of some sort of ‘movement’ that is led by a website.
But every now and then, I get bored reading the same websites. Maybe I can’t blame the websites; sometimes there is just no content to ‘spin’, so blogs have no memes to blog about, and must post unbuzzworthy bands + mediocre memes + irrelevant news ‘bits’ + unfunny viral videos starring moderately famous ppl.
April Fool’s Day seems like the ultimate solution to creating a more compelling internet. It eliminates days where there is nothing ‘bloggable’, so you can create stories + frame an engaging hyper-reality. Semi-plausible and implausible stories mashing up interesting humans, concepts, memes, and search terms seem more interesting than 95% of ‘real stuff’ that happens.
This April Fool’s Day I considered blogging about
- Ben Gibbard and Zooey Deschanel sex tape
- Ben Gibbard sex addiction
- Terrorist back pack bombed a Neon Indian Green Label Sound showcase
- the band GIRLS committed suicide with their cults
- Steve Aoki gets engaged
- Panda Bear calls Avey Tare a ‘little bitch’
- Pitchfork Media purchases HRO / GVB / the hype machine
- The creator of the hype machine gets sent to jail
- Justin Bieber raped by Ellen DeGeneres
- Uffie ‘tweets’ a nude picture of herself
- MGMT gets a 0.0 from Pitchfork Media
- James Murphy joins Grizzly Bear
- Edward Droste launches chillwave project
- Deakin spills ‘the dirt’ on the growing rift between AnCo and Panda Bear
- Obama was assassinated
- The Postal Service releases a new album
- Tiger Woods is HIV positive
- Balloon Boy sex tape
- Apple makes an iPhone
- McDonalds merges with Chili’s
April Fool’s Day seems like a great day for websites. Maybe it is the internet’s Super Bowl. Who can create the most ‘buzz’ about a prank / plausible story / something that ‘genuinely makes ppl confused.’ Which website can change the form and function of their website to ‘disorient’ their tribe of followers? Who is ‘creative’ enough to fool their users with class + legitimately ‘cleverness.’
April Fool’s Day may or may not have been created by God to occur on the internet. Wonder if April Fool’s Day is more or less ‘real’ than a regular day on the internet. Wonder why we ‘trust’ websites. Are blogs supposed 2 be authentic news sources, or are blogs more like bros who ‘have a personality.’ Some1 who we are cool with a little bit of silliness.
They say that ‘anything can happen’ on ‘any given day’ but I feel like April Fool’s Day is a day where interesting stuff happens. Unless ur site is ‘gay’ then u do a ‘gay prank’ or something.
Should all websites be required to ‘pull a prank’?
Do websites have a social responsibility to ‘play a joke’ on their readers?
Is the internet the ultimate breeding ground for perception altering pranks?
Which websites had ‘good’ / ‘gay’ pranks?
Do some websites ‘try too hard’ to form a viral meme on April Fool’s Day?
Do u ever get bored on the internet?
Is April Fool’s Day the most interesting day on the internet or the most annoying day on the internet?
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Yo, did google change it’s name to Kansas?
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can’t believe anco really ‘broke up’ 4 good this time
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//////////Reply by chong
//////////Posted April 3rd, 2010 at 2:23 pm
@flowers4alger-anon, long time bro
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//////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
//////////Posted April 4th, 2010 at 12:02 am
@chong, i kno right?! fckng h8 wrkng…
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hello?
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//////////Reply by HJ
//////////Posted April 4th, 2010 at 10:59 am
@carlwinslow, hey hows it goin?
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“with great power comes great responsibility”, carles. HRO is my “cnn”. I told approximately 47 of my friends about MGMT getting a 10 from p4k and now i am a veritable “laughing stock” in these alt circles.
you are now a man, no longer a boy. consider the “ethical implications”. consider the “collateral damage”. lead responsibly and BE the change you wish to see.
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//////////Reply by skibum
//////////Posted April 2nd, 2010 at 1:41 pm
@bro noir, lol good post bro noir
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//////////Reply by Chilladelphia
//////////Posted April 2nd, 2010 at 3:36 pm
@bro noir,
haha thank u 4 sharing :D [via sincerity]
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//////////Reply by jules
//////////Posted April 2nd, 2010 at 6:43 pm
@bro noir, damn, wish you were my grandpa so i could have such great wisdom bestowed upon me whenever i feel like visiting u in ur sweet floridian retirement home
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//////////Reply by Wildwood
//////////Posted April 2nd, 2010 at 10:10 pm
@bro noir, ur an idiot if you thought ‘Congrats’ could ever get anything even close to 10……..You deserve your shame.
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//////////Reply by Alex
//////////Posted April 3rd, 2010 at 3:08 am
@Wildwood, I dont know if you ‘get it’
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//////////Reply by Wildwood
//////////Posted April 3rd, 2010 at 8:42 am
@Alex, if your “music” has to be explained to someone in the music industry in order for them to “get it” then that means your music sucks……mad balls
//////////Reply by aunt jemima
//////////Posted April 3rd, 2010 at 1:07 pm
@Alex, the proof is in the pudding.
//////////Reply by skibum
//////////Posted April 4th, 2010 at 12:44 am
@Alex, lol bro noir was good but the ensuing thread was even better
CRLS, can you pretend to die and be reborn again like you did last Easter? The Alt Report and a post every 4 days is cool and all, but I miss your “Death gimmicks.” Or podcast. PLZ.
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ahahahah the best is the “Ballon Boy sex tape” ahaah
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//////////Reply by gay
//////////Posted April 4th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha
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anybody else gettin kinda tripped out by all these shaking MGMT heads?
hypnotizing…
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//////////Reply by Chilladelphia
//////////Posted April 2nd, 2010 at 3:38 pm
@AstroCandy,
*nods his head in agreement*
u know what else trips me out?
“You Oughta Know” by The Racists
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//////////Reply by HJ
//////////Posted April 4th, 2010 at 11:01 am
@Chilladelphia, luv dat tune
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i also work in an office and %90 percent of my time theft is spent viewing this site, way worth it
i luv u carles,
u made it bro, u really r ‘relevant’
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I also work in an office but unfortunately I have to do proper work all the time. Life is so unfair.
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My favorite part of this was getting into an unspoken fight with my best friend over the 10.0 given by Pitchfork, I said I hate Pitchfork, she said she didn’t. Tensions were high. Then I clicked on the link and it said “page not found.” I think she still owes me an apology.
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//////////Reply by Chilladelphia
//////////Posted April 2nd, 2010 at 3:39 pm
@panda scare, lol
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Hulu, the lamestream media’s hip tweenager, made a zany, viral vid for April Fools Day.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/139147/hulu-walkthrough-the-hulu-initiative-part-1-origins
and in other news
“Ben Gibbard and Zooey Deschanel sex tape”
<3 u CRLS
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all websites are required by law to make an “april foolz” story. see hrr 19.9879
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Was Barry Obama’s election an April Fools joke on every1 executed by the South? Did they trick us into having a socialist tyrant?
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//////////Reply by Wildwood
//////////Posted April 2nd, 2010 at 10:14 pm
@Abroham Lincoln, keep ur red state idiocy on Fox news.com please….no one here cares about your indoctrination.
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//////////Reply by Alex
//////////Posted April 3rd, 2010 at 3:09 am
@Wildwood, now I am sure you dont.
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//////////Reply by your bro
//////////Posted April 3rd, 2010 at 1:09 pm
@Wildwood, bro….forget it.
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Woah, woah, whaaat?
Steve Aoki’s NOT engaged?!
You got me CRLS!
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Glad carles didn’t try to pull any pranks
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//////////Reply by rachelzehava
//////////Posted April 4th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
@Anonymoose, the perfect 10 alt report coverage doesn’t count?
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H8 Topeka. So in-authentic. So glad Google’s back.
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best april fools joke= a hipster’s life…
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//////////Reply by gay
//////////Posted April 4th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
stop talking cunt
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CRLS! I am now confused as to what I can consider information and what to categories as ‘april fools’. Must admit I ate up the MGMT perfect 10 and now feel ‘miffed’, but Aokibro being engaged is true or false?? The photes seem too legit 2 be shooped [via intimate cuddle image]
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//////////Reply by FIO.
//////////Posted April 3rd, 2010 at 12:58 pm
@Selecta, exactly my point
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//////////Reply by chong
//////////Posted April 3rd, 2010 at 2:28 pm
@FIO., lol u ate it up and dumped it in your blog(aka the shitter)
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WHOA steve aoki not engaged? heeh??
and crls the 10.0 on pitchfork was probs the best internet april fools joke, way to be (probs because it is actually plausible with p4k trying to stay ‘relevant’)
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moot pranked 4chan by adding a ‘publish to facebook’ button. chaos broke loose as everyone started screaming about the death of /b/. but it’s still there so i’m not so sure it’s an april fools thing anymore.
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//////////Reply by rachelzehava
//////////Posted April 4th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
@Anonymous, hehehehehhehehehe you broke rules 1 and 2
chaos only broke loose among newfags, btw
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//////////Reply by Anonymous
//////////Posted April 4th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
@rachelzehava, in any case epic trollage by moot.
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get your iAprilFools app now!!!
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stuck on doom pt 3 by ccc
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hey bros
hows it going
we havent talked in a while
thought i should give u an update
here is whats new with me:
they upped my dose of antidepressants. still not really helping, i think.
my therapist is cool, but is having a baby soon? wtf.
but, she listens to the xx, so i feel like she rly ‘gets’ me.
i couldnt go to the tao lin workshop in kansas, even tho it was only like 3 hours away. i was so disappointed. i wanted to shake his hand and look him in the eye and say ‘hey’, and then look at the ground and quickly exit the room.
ive been doing things like drinking more coffee than i really want and convincing myself that i dont need to go to class.
i got drunk at a party and did a velociraptor impression. this girl thought it was sweet and is after my dick now. whatev.
also, i was at target and they had vegan shampoo and conditioner on the wrong shelf so the price said ‘$7.19′ when it was really $22 something for the shampoo and $16 something for the conditioner. i bought it and was like ‘it said they were on sale’ and pretended i didnt know what was up. i got a killer deal. i havent used them yet cause i still have a lot of shampoo and conditioner left in the bottle.
<3 u HRO
miss u so much
lets go get ice cream and listen to 'Son, Ambulance' and pretend we dont care about 'fucking anything' and then make a sweet ass spreadsheet that proves we dont care about 'fucking anything' and then we will take the batteries out of all the smoke alarms and unplug our computers and lie down and cry and wait for our phones to recharge and cut the legs off our jeans so we will fit in with the other alts and then we can go DJ a hair salon and i will tell you how much you mean to me
you mean so much to me
i love you
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//////////Reply by apreludes
//////////Posted April 4th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
@aw, fukk, do u have a blog
a tumblr
or something less relevant
anything
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your last tweet was shit shut the fuck up
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i just wanna curl up in you and chill
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