The history of April Fool’s Day on reality blurred
Update: 2025-04-02
Description
Why I started publishing satirical stories on April Fool's Day, why I stopped for a few years, and why I continue to miss the early 2000s internet. Plus: two Netflix recommendations and a story about "how to survive anything."
Mentioned
- reality blurred April 1, 2001 and 2008
- Satire: ABC fires Ty Pennington, producer from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
- In Touch corrects the record about reality blurred’s April Fool’s Day Ty Pennington story
- My 2025 April Fool's Day stories: Don’t take this personal, but you will never be casted on reality TV and The Survivor 50 cast’s new big twist
- The Verge: April Fools’ Day 2025: the best and cringiest pranks
Recommendations
- Million Dollar Secret, Netflix (my review)
- The Residence, Netflix (based on The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House)
- J Wortham’s My 10-Day Crash Course on Surviving the Apocalypse and how to survive anything
Credits
- Andy Dehnart’s Reality Blurred is copyright 2025 by Reality Blurred LLC.
- Find me at realityblurred.com or andydehnart.com
- Our theme song is “Cheery Monday” by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under the Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 License.
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