Welcome to the worst day on the internet! As Chaim Gartenberg pointed out years ago, brands and a holiday dedicated to hoaxes are rarely a winning combo. If you’re a company with any kind of social media presence in 2025, you really, truly only have four options on April Fools’ Day:
- Don’t do an April Fools’ joke. Put the time and energy into doing something productive that will materially benefit the world (or, less idealistically, your business) instead. Or just don’t do anything. Abstaining entirely would still be a net positive over the drain of resources and mental energy.
- Do an April Fools’ “joke,” but actually follow through on your stunt. This is arguably not a prank since you’ve actually created a video game skin or a real product that people can buy — but it doesn’t really hurt anyone.
- Do an April Fools’ joke, but be extremely clear from the start that this is a dumb joke and you have no intention of doing the thing that you are “humorously” pretending to do. Does this defeat the purpose of doing an April Fools’ joke because you’re not “fooling” anyone anymore? Absolutely. (Please see my first two points.)
- Lie to your customers, successfully tricking them into believing you are making some product, rebranding, or service you are not. By doing so, you will almost certainly annoy everyone once your deceit is made plain for the extremely small gain of pointless PR. The aphorism goes that there is no such thing as bad publicity; the seemingly endless line of companies willing to make fools out of themselves has proven this false time and time again.
So far, we’ve seen a couple of dating sim spinoffs, Razer’s translation headset, and a few other things, but we’ll keep the list updated here.
If you see anything that particularly sticks out for good, bad, or just unusual reasons, send it to us.
- There’s now a banana-shaped version of the Game Boy-inspired Arduboy.
Although it was announced on April 1st, Kevin Bates’ new Banana-Bit is not a prank. It’s an alternate version of the Arduboy featuring six capacitive buttons and three OLED screen sizes: 0.96, 1.3, and 2.42-inches.
It can play all the games currently available for the Arduboy platform, and is the first version of the handheld with a headphone jack. It’s available for preorder from $39 to $59, and expected to ship in May 2025.
- April Fools’ Day 2025: Anova’s oven affirmations.
“You’re not overcooked, you’re emotionally complex.”
- April Fools’ 2025: Concorde back in flight.
One of Flightradar’s most-tracked flights today was BAW999, which listed the retired supersonic jet as flying from London to New York. This, of course, was just too good to be true.
Image: Flightradar - OpenAI’s new voice mode is done with your shit.
The startup announced a new voice within ChatGPT that sounds really... annoyed? It’s named Monday, and OpenAI spokesperson Taya Christianson says it will be available to users through the end of April. When I tested it out, the voice sounded like a teenager you just woke up from a nap. Lots of exaggerated sighs and sarcastic quips.
“Why do you sound so pissy?” I asked. “Oh, I don’t know, maybe because it’s Monday, and here I am stuck explaining the obvious,” it responded.
- April Fools’ 2025: I got pranked into touching grass.
Dbrand released a new Touch Grass collection of skins for over 100 different devices for April Fools’ day and I tried them out. It’s not really a prank because these are a limited-edition skins that you can actually buy. The skins feel a bit like putting a softer type of Astroturf on your tech. This is a goofy bit of sensory overload, and to me, it counts as going outside.
- April Fools’ 2025: Cobra Commander crypto.
If you had any doubt where GI Joe’s antagonist would stand on the blockchain, Hasbro has repurposed this clip from S1E21, “Money to Burn.”
- April Fools’ 2025: Elgato’s Stream Deck Desk.
This not-real product has 1,262 customizable keys. As ridiculous as this is, I’m guessing that if it were an actual thing, someone would buy it.
- April Fools’ 2025: Figma’s new FigPals will follow your cursor.
They seem cute. But if you don’t like them, you can turn them off. And they’re only available this week.
- “Which one’s the Any Key?”
This would be a mildly funny April Fools’ Day gag if it were a fake product announcement. But CYL Any Keys is a real keycap set you can buy today. And it’s from GMK, so it’s a high-quality mildly funny April Fools’ Day gag, with doubleshot legends and support for mAny different keyboard layouts.
I’m holding out for MTNU Any Keys, though.
Photo: Novelkeys - April Fools’ 2025: Bluesky chops its character count.
Feeling like Bluesky posts are a little too long? The Twitter-like platform is cutting down allowable character counts, from 300 to... 299.
One day only.
Image: Bluesky April Fools’ 2025: Dbrand’s new skins let you ‘touch grass’ without the hassle of going outside
Dbrand’s Touch Grass collection is available for over 100 devices. Image: DbrandDbrand wants you to feel less guilty about having your face buried in a screen all day and not getting outside to ‘touch grass.’ The company’s latest collection of skins lets you wrap your gadgets in bright green artificial turf so you can touch grass whenever you want and no matter where you are.
The Touch Grass collection is available now through Dbrand’s website for more than 100 different devices with pricing similar to its other premium skins: $29.95 for smartphones, $49.95 for tablets, and $69.95 for laptops.
Read Article >- April Fools’ 2025: Duolingo’s five-year global cruise.
The cruise isn’t real, but Duolingo and Carnival made a fun video about it.
- April Fools’ 2025: The 3310 Overture.
Nokia’s iconic 3310 was first resurrected as a modern(ish) handset, and will now be immortalized by the UK’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Well, that may not be entirely true, but the Royal Albert Hall’s April Fools’ Day prank imagines a better world than this: one where classic ringtones get the full orchestral treatment, Snake II players are projected, and an organist creates a bit-crushed composition on a T9 keyboard.
April Fools’ 2025: Palworld and PUBG are getting dating sims
A screenshot from the Palworld dating sim, called Pal♡world! ~More Than Just Pals~. Image: PocketpairThe developers of Palworld and PUBG: Battlegrounds have announced details of dating simulators set in the universes of their respective games.
The Palworld dating sim, technically called Pal♡world! ~More Than Just Pals~, was actually announced ahead of April Fools’ Day last year. But yesterday, developer Pocketpair released a second trailer for the game and published an official Steam listing, so it seems like it’s a bit closer to actually releasing.
Read Article >- April Fools’ 2025: “Zoomer gibberish.”
Razer’s April Fools’ prank is the “Razer Skibidi” headset, which it says is “the world’s first AI-powered brainrot translator headset.” Razer even made a mock translator you can try on its website.
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