If you’re online at all in 2026, you know it can feel like April Fools’ Day every day. You’ve almost certainly come across videos and content, often created with AI, and had to stop and ask yourself if what you’re looking at is true or made up.. Some are obvious. You mean, there aren’t really beds made of kittens, cotton candy and rubies? And I wasn’t really offered a job guarding a spooky funeral home where I might hear tapping coming from the morgue freezer at 3 a.m.? (Both of these are TikTok videos, and the AI is scarily good — and also just scary.). As brands roll out their April Fools’ Day jokes for this year, I keep thinking that in an AI-heavy world, the jokes seem less surprising, the faked-up art less novel. Here are some highlights from this year’s list of April 1 corporate and tech jokes.. Dyson beauty tools for pets. PSA: Do not use a styling tool, especially a heated one, on your poor pets. That said, this April Fools’ Day prank promoting a fictional Dyson Air Wrap for pets is pretty cute. That horse, cat and dog look pretty elegant with their new curls. There’s a fun YouTube Short, too.. PlayStation Project Playmo. Why have your own fun when you can outsource it? IGN created an April Fools’ Day prank involving a fake PlayStation controller dubbed Project Playmo with Al Copilot. The joke is that it can not only play games for you, but will override your wishes and do a lot of embarrassing or dumb things, like change your online ID to something humiliating or play back your Voice Chat recordings at the worst possible times.. Snap gets Real. Snapchat’s April 1 prank was a dig at competing companies that also deliver short videos. James Martin/CNET. Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, poked fun at Instagram Reels and TikTok with a joke video announcing that it is renaming Snapchat’s Spotlight feed to “Reals.” Co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel pops up in a social-media video where he describes “Reals” as a place where “real people share real moments. Really.” It’s a pointed reference to the fact that Snap originally popularized vertical short-form content with Stories long before many of its competitors copied the format.. Fortnite: Big heads and llama riding. Here’s an April Fools’ prank that’s more than a joke, it’s real — but only temporary. Fortnite players can try out a 24-hour-only April Fools’ Day game update that throws some truly wacky changes into the popular game. Players get enormous heads, can ride on other players’ shoulders, can use finger guns that go “pew, pew,” make a splat sound when landing after a fall, and, perhaps best of all, rideable llamas have appeared.. Warhammer: The Musical. Hey, if Broadway can make a musical about Alexander Hamilton, or a bunch of cats, surely they can make one about the Warhammer universe? That’s the joke behind this trailer for The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical, the April 1 joke from Games Workshop, creator of the popular game world. The 2.5-minute trailer, with impress
