April Fools Day, Fooling People

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By Jon May

Husky Herald Reporter

    April 1^st is a day that lets all pranksters run free. It lets them roam and place jokes on people as much as they want.

    On April 1^st 2014, YouTube; a popular website that lets you upload videos, decided it would be funny to pull a prank on the world. What prank? Well, by making up a fake trends video of 2014.

   These fake trends are either parodies made from actual trends that have occurred over the years, or just random trends that would never catch on. Or would they?

   These trends would include: Clocking, Kissing Dad, The Glub Glub Water dance song, Chicken High Five,

Flash Sobbing, and Guitar Tricking.

   I wanted to know what the student body thought of these fake or un-fake trends. “I thought that all of them were stupid, I don’t like when YouTube does their April fools jokes” said Paige Byrnaert (’14). “The only one that was actually worth my time was the Kissing Dad trend”

   YouTube isn’t the only big corporation to pull a spoof video this April fools. Another big company that  

pulled a joke video was Google.

   Every year Google takes one of their many features and adds a special feature that is so bizarre it drives people mad. “That’s awesome the way they created it, but as for it not being real that makes me angry” said Tom Coop (’14).

   This year they came up with the idea for a Google Maps spoof, involving catching Pokémon. They would have people, open up their Google maps application on their smart phone, and then Pokémon would show up. Then each person would move their Google map around the world until they caught every Pokémon.
   Reddit was another corporation to also pull pranks on the world. “It was fantastically stupid” said Brendan Maxwell (’14) a student who regularly uses Reddit.

   Reddit also decided they would play jokes on their subscribers by showing a new way to up vote, down vote, and scroll through their pages. “I wish they wouldn't play jokes like that, it would be cool if they were real.” Maxwell said.

   The question that still needs to be answered is if these supposedly “fake trends” will catch on or if these massive companies actually do have the capabilities to turn these virtual fake jokes into reality. I guess we will have to wait until next April fools to be posed by these same exact questions.