@adeptomega Same. I miss the wacky stuff where the mold got broken for a day. I get why it upsets people, but I wish it were a thing still. :/
@Soreth @adeptomega I miss the weird and bizarre hijinx, but at the same time, I don't miss the ways in which some people faked tragedy as an attempt at "shock humor." I've had my fill of couples "teasing" friends with mock break-up posts, straight people faking coming out, celebrity fake deaths, not-really-lost jobs, and the like.
I value the spirit of whimsy, but I ran into a lot of people who couldn't be trusted with it, and it left me sour on the whole affair as it's practised in the main.
@Soreth @adeptomega At its heart, it's that inability to spot what's going to go wrong -- the awareness that I can't hold the world's context in my head -- that keeps April Fool's from being fun for me. I'm constantly aware that I can't know if what I'm doing is about to hurt someone, and I've already hurt people trusting something would be seen as a prank and finding out others didn't spot the satire. And... I get burned a lot not being able to spot satire. So, a day dedicated to satire... no.
@Soreth @adeptomega And to be sure, I brought it on myself. I once changed my species in a therian IRC community on April Fool's Day and claimed it had been a religious visitation. A lot of people took it _really_ badly and told me I'd betrayed their trust because they believed me, and finding out it had been an April Fool's Prank made them doubt their faith, and my sincerity. I don't think I was "shitty," but I had no idea how to judge what "shitty" was.