The World in Kids News: April Fools’ Day 2024
From Polandball Children's Television Network
Directed and edited by Shantleen Dhanoa
Context: This comic references four real life pranks pulled on April Fools’ Day 2024.
r/Corpoball
As part of April Fools’ Day, the official Polandball subreddit announced that they will be changing their content from satirical webcomics about national personifications in the form of anthropomorphic balls decorated with their national flags and white, pupilless eyes (with some exceptions), to satirical webcomics about famous media companies in the form of anthropomorphic balls decorated with the logos of their companies and white, pupilless eyes (with some exceptions; comics depicted YouTube as a brick similar to Kazakhstan). Since it was an April Fools’ Day joke, this change was only temporary, after a day or two, the r/Corpoball comics were removed (Companyballs is already a spin-off Countryballs).
Sand in the Wikipedia Sandbox!
This.
The Countryballs messing around in the sandbox desert was from the cartoonist's pure imagination.
The angry white ball with the W on it (in the bottom-right corner) represents the Wikipedia user Wesoree.
And in case you were wondering who was able to film the action depicted in this panel, it was PWA (a New Zealander YouTuber known for making 3D animations starring the Countryballs).
"Disney Plus announce Simpsons and Bluey Crossover Special"
Original Illustration used in Panel 4
https://www.reddit.com/r/bluey/comments/pmvot4/who_did_simpsons_x_bluey_better/
This is the title of a hoax article from the Australian podcast website Four Finger Discount.
The very short article features the title, a screenshot from The Simpsons episode So It's Come To This: A Simpsons Clip Show (S04E18; First aired on April 1st, 1993) with the Flanders family saying, "April Fool's!" and a disclaimer that the announcement was false, followed by an Easter greeting.
Yeah, we all had it coming!
Taragis Takoyaki's Failed Prank
In the Philippines, a Takoyaki store called Taragis posted a fake contest on social media that offered a prize for anyone who would tattoo the Taragis logo onto his or her forehead. A man looking for financial support for his children took the challenge. Taragis ended up rewarding their only contestant ₱100,000.
Taragis' owner later admitted that the April Fools’ prank was actually a staged publicity stunt and that the supposed victim was just a volunteer for the staged act.
Meaning that everybody got fooled on that day!
Here's a news article about the prank.