General advice for April Fools Jokes
So, here’s some general advice for April Fools jokes that will make people (other than you) laugh, rather than pissing people off.
For next April Fool’s day, you’ve got one whole year to plan your next joke. Take the time to make the joke clever, rather than crass and mean-spirited. For example, take cues from what Funimation did (fake kickstarted board game tie-in to one of their shows), the TWIT Network did (rebranding the TWiT Network twitter account as TechTV), and of course, the frequently awesome jokes pulled off by ThinkGeek, Google, and, this year, Tumblr itself.