I’ll be blunt: I despise April 1st with the heat of a thousand suns, and I awake this morning relieved that it’s over for another year.
I don’t know the origins of April Fools’ Day. And while I could easily edumacate myself on it with 90 seconds of online research, my white-hot derision compels me not to.
Perhaps this makes me look and sound like the old man screaming at the kids near his lawn, but there’s nothing funny about a joke that we know is coming.
If we’re looking for pure comedy, the hackneyed, forced, derivative examples on display every April 1st will never qualify.
The journalist in me feels it degrades the craft. With legions of social-media-fed morons already casting doubt on the credibility of the entire industry, why on Earth would a legitimate business platform risk its brand integrity by sharing an obvious lie?
There’s enough misinformation floating around as it is that we hardly need a day dedicated to it in the name of so-called humour.
And the bullying-masked-as-a-joke vibe that dominates the day feels like everything our parents never wanted us to become as adults.
So please consider this photo of our dog, Calli, as something of a day-after palette cleanser. She isn’t trying to be anything she isn’t, nor is she attempting to force her humour on the rest of us.
She just…is. And the things that make her funny are the things that come naturally to her.
Thank you for attending my rage-induced TED Talk.
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