An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- March 27, 2024
- March 26, 2024
- March 25, 2024
- March 24, 2024
- March 23, 2024
- March 22, 2024
- March 21, 2024
March 31, 2020 03:24 pm
Photo by Brooke Palmer / Warner Bros. Entertainment
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21201179/april-fools-day-2020-is-canceled
April fools day is canceled, you monsters
Photo by Brooke Palmer / Warner Bros. Entertainment
For nearly two decades, brands around the world have gathered each year to celebrate two occasions: the anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks, and April fools’ day. They’re like holidays for the most cringeworthy and deplorable content imaginable, and no natural or human disaster has been able to interrupt them — until now.
Google, which typically spends about 40-percent of its yearly budget on April fools’ pranks across its portfolio of products, wisely opted out this year. According to an email obtained by Business Insider, Google will “take the year off from that tradition out of respect for all those fighting the Covid-19 pandemic.” Thanks, Google.
Unfortunately, some brands lack the self-awareness or plain sense...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21201179/april-fools-day-2020-is-canceled
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article
The Verge
The Verge is an ambitious multimedia effort founded in 2011More About this Source Visit The Verge