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Google Cancels April Fools Pranks A Second Time, Due To COVID-19 Crisis

by Temiloluwa Kolapo
April 1, 2021
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Google Cancels April Fools Pranks A Second Time, Due To COVID-19 Crisis

Google has cancelled its April Fools’ day pranks this year due to the ongoing pandemic.

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The company confirmed its plans to not indulge in any jokes this year and instead focus its efforts on the fight against the pandemic. This is the second year that Google has cancelled its prank plans. The tech giant is famous for its elaborate pranks on this day. In the recent years, it had announced fake plans for a Mars settlement, and introduced a human-animal translation app as part of its usual annual April Fools’ Day jokes.


This became a bit of a trend for all tech firms, but in 2020, most took a step back, recognising how the COVID pandemic required a more serious mindset. One year later, this message seems to have stuck, and we’ve seen relatively few companies try and cash-in on jokes during a deadly pandemic.

Business Insider reports that Googleexecutives sent out an internal email to managers earlier in March asking them to ‘pause the jokes’ in light of the disruption caused by COVID-19 in the past year. Google has decided to stop its April Fools pranks for second year in a row due to the hardships that people have had to face during the lockdowns and the pandemic-scare.

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Google’s VP of global marketing, Marvin Chow, in his email said, “As you will remember, last year we made the decision to pause our longstanding Google tradition of celebrating April Fools’ Day, out of respect for all those fighting COVID-19. With much of the world still grappling with serious challenges, we feel we should again pause the jokes for April Fools’ Day this year. Like we did last year, we should continue to find appropriate ways to bring moments of joy to our users throughout the year (e.g. Doodles, easter eggs, etc.).”

An official statement from Google was also shared by The Verge. “In 2020, we made the decision to pause our longstanding Google tradition of celebrating April Fools’ Day, out of respect for all those fighting COVID-19. With much of the world still grappling with serious challenges, we will again pause the jokes for April Fools’ Day in 2021,” the statement reads.


While Google is choosing to be sensitive to the ongoing global scenario and the looming coronavirus second wave that seems to be worse than the initial one, some companies in India are still choosing to post jokes and pretend to be completely oblivious to the disruptions in the outside world. Flipkart announced that it is now accepting Bitcoin as an official mode of payment inside the app and asked all users to update immediately.



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