Fool Me Once

Last week marked the end of the beginning of April, a month with the audacity to call us fools at the get go. For many of us, it ends with a total solar eclipse.

No one really knows how the tradition of April Fool’s Day began centuries ago, or what prompted it, or how it came to be. But it be. Overtime, the 1st of April became a day for the media, fast food chains, and popular brands, to put on their trickster hats and amuse their social media fan base.

On Monday, Dunkin’ announced a fake name change, while Krispy Kreme said they would glaze their donuts with anything the customer brings. Smoothie King raked in plenty of likes for their Air-Wan Smoothie post with only one ingredient, air. Scotch, known for their tape, introduced a Scotch Whiskey. Many more brands followed suite by announcing fake product launches on April 1st, showing off their playful side.

But not all jokes are funny, and some of them can go awfully wrong. I remember the time when my brother and his friends played a joke in our neighborhood by hanging a dressed-up dummy on a tree. Let’s just say that it was not well received.

In 2018, when Elon Musk announced a Tesla bankrupt…