April, April: Ideas for pranks via WhatsApp and Co.

• You can also send your friends to April via WhatsApp.
• You can use various tools for this.
• We have collected some ideas for pranks for you.

You want to prank your friends on April 1st, but you have no ideas? Then we will help you. It doesn’t always take days of planning for a successful April Fool’s joke, many jokes can also be implemented quickly – for example via WhatsApp or Facebook.

How about a classic, for example: the popular rickrolling, in which you forward your conversation partner to the music video of “Never Gonna Give You Up” via a manipulated link?

Here are a few more online April Fools joke ideas to try:

• For example, you can fake a WhatsApp chat history and pretend, for example, that you are pregnant or that you are chatting with a celebrity.
• Or commission a celebrity to deliver a joke message to your friends via video via cameo or shoutout.
• Some messengers on computers or smartphones use moving dots in the message field to indicate that the other person is typing. If you want, you can take advantage of this on April 1st. Because there are numerous GIF files with exactly these moving dots on the Internet. If you send these, the recipient may be waiting in vain for a message that you are not actually writing.
• Use social networks! For example, you can change your relationship status on Facebook and confuse your friends. Congratulations on a wedding that didn’t take place make for a lot of fun on your wall.
• With the Zoom Escaper tool, you can only fake noise in a video conference and send the other participants into April.
• Another idea for an April Fool’s joke can be a special zoom background that you return to your video chat. Alternatively, adjust your voice with these tools.
• The April Fool’s joke of signing up friends for strange e-mail newsletters can also be implemented remotely. From the aviation association to the ferret club, there are countless organizations on the Internet that the victims of your prank will certainly have nothing to do with. The more unexpected the thematic orientation of the newsletter, for which you simply register your acquaintances, the more surprised they are likely to be.
• Or send out a few flat jokes, they always come off well.

Where does the custom of April 1 come from?

But why are we playing pranks on April 1st? The origin of the custom has not been finally clarified. One possible theory goes back to 1564. At that time, the French king Charles IX carried out a calendar reform; he moved New Year’s Day from April 1st to January 1st. Nevertheless, there were people who, partly out of ignorance, continued to celebrate the New Year at the end of March. These are then popularly referred to as April Fools.

Another possible explanation also comes from France. In the early 17th century, King Henry IV is said to have received an invitation to a tête-à-tête on April 1st from a simple commoner girl. The king was not averse to the young lady and accepted the proposed meeting at a secluded pleasure palace. His unknown young lady was not waiting for him there, but his entire court, including his wife. She is said to have thanked him for accepting her invitation to the “Fool’s Ball”.

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