Your Guide To Every April Fools’ Day Prank On The Internet
It’s the first of April and NOTHING is safe. Here’s a guide to help you figure what is real and what is pure hogwash. Together, we can get through this.
3. YouTube reaveals it was actually just a contest to find the best video and is finally shutting down.
10. Justin Bieber fans are spending the day mimicking everything Justin says and does online.
11. And One Directioners are going to break up with the band.
12. Twitter is going to ban vowels and charge you $5 to use them again.
14. And Hulu is only advertising fake shows like Rural Juror, Itchy And Scratchy, or Inspector Spacetime
Via hulu.com
15. The Guardian released a new product that lets readers see only liberal or conservative augmented realities.
Via telegraph.co.uk
16. The Telegraph releases on article about a new “Lights Tzar.”
Via telegraph.co.uk
19. If you go to Digg and use the Konami code (up up, down down, left, right, left, right, B, A) the site will Rickroll you.
23. DeviantArt releases DeviantHEART, the online dating site for artists.
Via deviantart.com
31. The Whole Foods’ Cattle Cam, which lets you watch what you eat eat.
38. WNYC has peep-vision, which is activated when you type peep on the homepage.
Via wnyc.org
41. Astronaut Chris Hadfield posted this photo of “space debris” to his Twitter.
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