{"id":559056,"date":"2026-04-01T22:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559056\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T22:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:47:11","slug":"april-fools-day-2026-the-best-and-cringiest-pranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559056\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fools\u2019 Day 2026: the best and cringiest pranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Welcome to the worst day on the internet! As Chaim Gartenberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/4\/1\/22359046\/april-fools-day-brands-pr-bad-stop\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pointed out<\/a> years ago, brands and a holiday dedicated to hoaxes are rarely a winning combo. If you\u2019re a company with any kind of social media, internet, or AI chatbot presence in 2026, you really, truly only have four options on April Fools\u2019 Day:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">If you see anything that particularly sticks out for good, bad, or just unusual reasons, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/a\/tip-us-secure-contact-email\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">send it to us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the worst day on the internet! As Chaim Gartenberg pointed out years ago, brands and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,3,172,247923],"class_list":["post-559056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-tldr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}