What are we about to do right now? We are
going to look back at this year's best and absolutely worst corporate April Fools pranks. I'm recording this on April 1st, and currently I
don't know who to trust. It's that time of year where companies are getting brave by finally
being relatable to normal people by lying on the internet. So before we get into that, this
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smile for the camera works. On the one hand, we have brands doing their corporate nonsense as
always. And on the other hand, we have everyone on the internet just never knowing what to believe.
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for us this year, but I'm going to be honest, I'm not in the mood. First we have the Monoprice
sit squat desk. What? It's a desk on the floor. They just remove the lower part of
a desk and they're pretending like they're selling it. Imagine writing in the
death note on your Monoprice sit squat desk. Next, we have this Sinjin Horse, a company
focused on technology for autonomous vehicles. Introducing Sinjin Horse. Sinjin
Horse unifies stereoscopic perception. It's just a horse.
And maximum speeds of 55 miles- Wait, why are the horses pretty though?
Sinjin Horse is built with revolutionary perception capabilities.
I think Sinjin should get credit for this. I think the horses should get
credit. Next we have the Porsche patina paint. Porsche, every car has been individualized.
So we use oxidation processes for the paint. Rusty, you might call it. Look, today we reveal
a very special car and a very special offer. So ugly. Oh my gosh. It looks like my dad's
old car that had this exact rust pattern. Okay, fine. That was good. The Aspen Snowmass Apres
skis, I'm assuming. These cost $4,000 apparently. Aspen Snowmass is proud to introduce
the world's first apres skis, a sophisticated sidecut with an exquisite finish.
Why are they barefoot on skis? I don't like it. We have the Fluidmaster Emergency Wiping Rock.
Ew, that's nasty. But then again, y'all remember when COVID first started and we were out of
toilet paper? I'm just saying, it may have come in handy. Meatball of the Month Club, a meatball
at your doorstep every month. The love meatball, the football meatball, the red, white and blue
meatball. Okay, that just looks scary. Oh look, they have vegan options. I understand that this
is a joke, but if you could stop by Firehouse and pick up a box from them, I would opt into
it. Jack Link's jerky cologne. This is nasty. The commercial was funny, a little bit. Next
we have Lego smart breaks. Never step on a Lego break again. They know that there's no
greater pain than life than stepping on Legos. Get ready for a new experience. Oh, wait, make
that real. Okay. Good job, Lego. Good job, Lego. And next we have the Canadian Space Agency Mars
Surprise. While traveling on the surface of Mars, the Perseverance rover found the place where
all the missing socks from the dryer end up. Ha. Our missing socks wound up on Mars. I think
it's finally time y'all stop blaming your dryers and get on my level. Bud Light
seltzer pizza variety pack. This is pizza-flavored beer. Why are so many of these
pranks just nasty? Anchovy beer, extra cheese beer. I keep saying beer, but it's seltzers.
That's nasty though. This is disgusting. Razor Rapunzel Chroma Hair Dye.
For context, I am a huge Razer fan. Not getting any stream viewers? Time to glow up
with the all new Razer Rapunzel Chroma Hair Dye. It's kind of sick.
All possible and just three- Ew, it looks gross. Why is this funny to me?
Glow up with the Razer Rapunzel Chroma Hair Dye. That was funny. And more importantly,
I would use it. New Egg Hydrator PC. To bridge the gap between home computer and smart
appliance. The New Egg Hydrator, where it's one part media center, one part grape dispenser.
Did they put so much work into an April Fools ad? We're getting to some of the
weirder ones here. V by Velveeta Skincare. Immerse yourself in the serenity of
smoothness. Now in skincare. V by Velveeta. The thought of having it anywhere near my face is
just disgusting. And yet, somehow I'm okay with ingesting it. Next we have Blue Kazoo, 100,000
piece, all blue jigsaw puzzle. But why is it kind of aesthetic? Satechi Cybermouse. This
design works a lot better for a mouse than it does for a car. It's a good render. Good
job to the artist. TaskRabbit TaskRabbits. Customers can relax and play with the bunny
while the Tasker focuses on the job at hand. Right, y'all can they even hire a narrator?
That was a good one. That was cute. I still think they should have hired
a narrator. Next we have the Duolingo Roll. Turn your bathroom into a classroom.
No ads, no interruptions. Unironically, this one's pretty good. Surfshark for
Windows 95. This is already my aesthetic. Welcome the long awaited Surfshark
for Windows 95. It's blazing fast. Oh my gosh. The dial up internet. I'm
a big appreciator of this ad right here. Green Giant cauliflower. No. Chosen
Foods Guacpaste, a guacamole toothpaste made with hand-scooped Hass avocados. Bra,
it looks so bad on the toothbrush itself. The TubbyCoin. Teletubbies came forward and said
that they were releasing a new cryptocurrency called TubbyCoin. I don't know who
the heck designed this for them, but they did a fantastic job. The image that they
used to promote this before they, quote unquote, dropped it was so unreasonably funny to
me. Who on the marketing team was like, "We're just going to do the glowing eyes meme."
We have to end it with the Tearless. But before that, I went into to get into some
April Fools pranks that have gone wrong. So the first one we have, it's just Google not
doing one at all. Google cancels April Fools the second year in a row. They didn't want
to get destroyed by the New Egg Hydrator PC. The one was not from a brand. April Fools
tweet lands Clark County woman in jail. She went on Twitter and said, "Active shooter at
International and Springfield. Be safe Everyone." Not that this would really ever be funny,
but especially in the wake of mass shooting after mass shooting, this is so dangerous.
So as you may have noticed, Volkswagen was conspicuously absent from the list of April Fools
pranks, and that was because theirs were terrible. Volkswagen of America lied about rebranding to
Volkswagen and in an effort to draw attention to the loan electric vehicles currently selling in
the US, then published a press release on Tuesday saying the change was a public declaration of the
company's future forward investment in e-mobility. Why are we acting like any of these companies
care about the environment? I think it's time for us to do the tier list. This first one we have
is the Teletubbies coin. I'm going to be honest, I think it's S tier. Next we have the TaskRabbits.
I'm going to go ahead and put this one in B. I'm not even asking. The little desk, I
was so disappointed. We just created a whole new level of bad specifically for the
desk meme. Next we have the Sinjin horses, fine. We'll do S. The rusty Porsche cars, really
good production value, but the joke itself wasn't that funny to me. I agree with the C. The apres
skis. I don't think they deserve an F, I just hate the concepts so much. I don't even need to
ask. The emergency wiping rock can go in F, right? Meatball of the Month Club, I'm going to go ahead
and go with an A. I would want this to exist in real life. The beef jerky cologne. I'm going
to give it a B. That's pretty high. I hate the idea so much, but I love the ad for it. Smart
Legos. This is A tier because it was relatable, it was funny. The special effects were fantastic.
The Canadian Space Agency with the missing socks on Mars, I'm going to put it in C because it
wasn't terrible and it wasn't that funny either. The Bud Light pizza-flavored seltzer, I'm
going to put it in D it wasn't terrible or low effort. It was just nasty. Razer
Rapunzel hair dye. It has to go in S because I completely forgot they had the meme section.
So this is the official 2021 April Fools tier list. So I guess my main opinion on this is
this year's April Fools pranks were surprisingly not awful, but after living through an entire
year, that felt like an April Fools prank, they weren't that impactful. I'll be here all week,
folks, at 2:00 PM central time. If it's Monday, Wednesday, Friday, that means I'm uploading a new
video here. If it's Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, that means I'm going live over on Twitch.
Basically what I'm saying is I'll see you tomorrow. Unless of course, tomorrow is Sunday, in
which case just watch this video again. Okay, bye
