For an IRL example… I explained April Fools Day to my 4 year old kid this morning for the first time. His first instinct was to wrap a piece of Lego in foil and have me write CHOC on it, then leave it outside the bedroom door for my wife (who was having a lie in). I think he gets it!

Last year, the Flying subreddit (a subredit for pilots, both hobbyists and professional ones) had a mod post about changing focus to the more numerous group: The passengers, giving the impression that they pivoted to travel blogging. Due to timezones, the april fools aspect wasn’t immediately clear, so the outrage was enormous.

My son (5 y/o) walked into my office and said “dad! I brought you something”. I assumed it was a piece of Easter candy because he had a hand behind his back. I asked him what did he have.

He turned around, let out a huge fart, and said “Fooled you!” Then he put on his cowboy hat and walked out of the room.

Yep, gottem.

Google Japan always pulls a joke about how they’ve developed a new better Google Japanese Keyboard.

So far there’s been a spoon you bend to different angles to select characters, and a giant keyboard key you wear as a hat and use by reaching up and spinning it to point in the cardinal direction of a given character, and then enter it by pressing the single giant key-hat thing.

It’s especially funny with Google being such a massive monolithic company, and there’s the Japanese branch just doing their own thing.

I also participate in the Titanfall modding scene, and each year for April fools the Northstar master server displays everything in uwu language.

I think The Lockpicking Lawyer (YouTuber)has consistently put out good April’s fools videos. I do have a sophomoric sense of humor though, and they are all based on innuendo.