In our post-ironic digital age, an unfortunate, but previously predicted, issue had finally come to pass: April Fools' Day is no longer funny, unexpected, and creative. Every year it is the same song and dance. Creators decide to do something "out of left field" only for it to fall flat as they no longer have the unclipped nads to do anything different; businesses change a logo or styling slightly and drive a single committee-generated joke into the ground; Minecraft gets a significant update that shows how unbelievably lazy and terrible Mojang truly is the rest of the year. The examples could go on and on, but three is plenty and enough to look at this "tradition" as something so unbelievably bastardized that shifting the status quo is no longer optional. Here is what I suggest we need to do:
1. We need to approach April 1st as a day of extreme sincerity and hate against the boring participants that completely inverses the expected insincerity and finally gives punch back to the day.
2. We need to delay overwhelmingly foolish antics to May 2nd, as according to this article, is a contested TRUE date for the fools.
3. We need to reinvent the wheel so hard on that day that everything that came before would be deemed the boring act that it is, and people would need to keep up or else they'll be left behind.
In due time, this holiday could be rejuvenated with the same vigor it once had so long ago if enough people simply followed these three steps.
