Those Videos were April Fool’s Day Jokes!
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Due to the overwhelming response to all the videos we uploaded on April 1st… I have decided to revert my decisions. Everything will go back to the way it was the day before APRIL FOOL’s day!
I still can’t believe how many people fell for all of them. The date is stamped onto each video we record and upload. I gotta tell you… I love that holiday. You know it will happen next year, as well. It’s funny how many people sent me emails begging me to not quit streaming, telling me they now hate me… it was insane!
I wasn’t really able to trick Ponzi this year. I did manage to put a icky-looking remote control spider in the middle of the kitchen floor. She didn’t really fall for it though, since the remote decided not to work. The worst prank I ever played would have to be the time I decided to use a mail-merge function in the Pirillo’s Picks. I moved the variable up to the top, instead of having it at the bottom. I said “The newsletter is getting too big. I’m going to have to unsubscribe ten people every day… until it’s down to a manageable size.”. I then used the new rule to add in nine fake email addresses, and number eight always showed up as the person’s email address who was reading the newsletter at the time. My list grew that day by over 20,000 people. I’m not kidding. That many people re-subscribed, thinking they had been unsubscribed! So, they pulled out another email address and subscribed again. It was funny, but people were seriously freaking out BIG time. I had to immediately send out an apology email.
Even though I love to play pranks, I really do try to make sure not to do them at other’s expense. I don’t mean to hurt anyone, or seriously anger them. I hope you all had fun along with me!
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42 Comments
Dimitry1996
April 3rd, 2008
at 9:35pm
thats one good good joke Chris. Next tie I’m marking my calendar!
Artanis227
April 3rd, 2008
at 9:38pm
I knew it was a prank, There is very little I believe on April 1. Pranks are fun, I do them, who dont!. I am amazed at how many people actually believed those videos… Apparently They have not herd of April Fools Day!
mypuffins
April 3rd, 2008
at 10:18pm
All’s I can say is, not funny. (said with scornful and pouty look on face) I fell for the iphone one and even had a few opinions of my own. lol
bobbo
April 4th, 2008
at 1:17am
Well good. I almost posted the old saying “Behind every great man is a woman telling him he is wrong.”
Very happy to find out you and Ponzi are getting along without major sacrifices having to be made===keep it up.
Charles
April 4th, 2008
at 6:46am
So wait… Gnomepal is REAL?
mark
April 4th, 2008
at 7:18am
arg….your “newsletter subscription” email hit my box on April 2nd…i clicked the links….i BELIEVED! then when i saw some of the other links…i finally “got it”. (especially after noting timestamp on the entry”..so tried to go back and add another comment about how this must be an april fools thing……but it blocked any further messages!! arg!!
Ennis Troy
April 4th, 2008
at 7:52am
You are bigger jerk then I thought
B.DeForde
April 4th, 2008
at 8:28am
Thats just what I figured! You little monkey, you! O well, got to have fun, right?
joelg88
April 4th, 2008
at 11:50am
Those were some nice joke chris. Looks April Fools is near the top of your favorite holidays. I cant believe so many people fell for the pranks. In chat people kept asking When is the Mac giveaway over and over. That was funny lol
felinoid
April 4th, 2008
at 12:34pm
For April Fools I posted a video (it’s still there) saying I won’t have time to make videos anymore due to my new job. All I did was relocate to a different desk in the same office building. Also people would show up in chat looking to get your mac and everyone would tell those people “it was a joke” and they’d insist it was for real so I (getting tired of it) said it was already won. It was late so I mean come on even if it was real it would have been given away already.
Liam Forkings
April 4th, 2008
at 12:53pm
Hi Chris,
I realy Thought you where telling the truth
masterraptor911
April 4th, 2008
at 2:10pm
Ahhh!!! That wasn’t funny. Watching these videos the day after april fools hindered the funny. I have to give it to you on that one though. Nicely done, nicely done.
ThievingSeven
April 4th, 2008
at 3:26pm
windows>mac
iphone sucks
psp>ds
super88cloud
April 4th, 2008
at 4:51pm
thats bullshit and u know it psp sucks balls
FrozenEclipse
April 4th, 2008
at 5:30pm
Shut up, you brain-dead dumbass.
BrandonN
April 4th, 2008
at 8:47pm
I was in the chat room during the spam of everyone thinking you were going to give away your mac pro and quit streaming. As many times I told them it was april fools they just kept on going. Why don’t people think about the date.
stryper2000
April 4th, 2008
at 9:22pm
I thought the Video/Chat switching was funny, and pretty much assumed all the other videos were pranks too
VistaUser
April 4th, 2008
at 11:18pm
Sometimes people just take things way too seriously. You just have to relaxed every once in a while…
Frost
April 4th, 2008
at 11:32pm
Ha, the one that got me was the “Chris is giving away a Mac Pro tonight”
I was a little shocked, considering how much he paid for it lol.
Anyways, April Fools days jokes are fun :) it’s the one day of the year I can prank everyone :D
Apptendo
April 5th, 2008
at 5:29am
You know that Nintendo saved the gaming industry and if Nintendo never existed There would be no PlayStation.
Luke Faulkner
April 5th, 2008
at 7:05am
I really believed the videos lol, i was upset when i saw them.
At least you are not leaving! makes me happy.
xXfalafelXx
April 5th, 2008
at 8:54am
bet you never have even touched a mac in your life
johnr325
April 5th, 2008
at 9:23am
so true to screens drives me insane…you need a console for web browsing…and ds games are like nitendo 64 enhansed…psp is more
ThievingSeven
April 5th, 2008
at 9:25am
You know that current nintendo sucks? DS and wii blow ****. I have used a mac.
chrissaboy
April 5th, 2008
at 10:28am
Sorry, but I prefer Sony’s PSP over Nintendo’s DS!
mxjf
April 5th, 2008
at 11:35am
hey, before commenting, go to chris’ blog, or even his site……al of his computers are macs you ******* ******……the laptop on his ******* desk is a MACBOOK PRO!
J4gg1T
April 5th, 2008
at 11:56am
i belive u mean:
windows=mac
iphone is not amazing, but a good phone
and psp
Apptendo
April 5th, 2008
at 2:14pm
You know that the DS and Wii are beating the sales of the PSP and PS3, and the iphone is an awesome phone.
ThievingSeven
April 5th, 2008
at 3:06pm
They still suck
yashatono
April 5th, 2008
at 7:31pm
i wasnt meaning software, but hardware. pc is way easier to max out. an apple computer cant be equally customisable…
yashatono
April 5th, 2008
at 7:42pm
bah, a company in my country made prank-comercial with “scientist” from france, england and japan. saying that the energi from one exploding star could be gathered into an antenna and that one single star could suply the whole earth with electricity for 5 years… you wouldnt believe what they went through to prank only the smallest of kids.. =_=
sbushfan11
April 6th, 2008
at 12:06am
I was expecting Chris’s gags because of all the ticks played all day in my household. It was fun to watch other people reactions when they were fooled by Chris’s tricks. I was surprised it took another video to explain the joke videos.
WillThePlank
April 6th, 2008
at 3:25am
you can customise a mac pro to hell … as equal if not better
dude0997
April 6th, 2008
at 11:32am
you hate psp ds sucks like hell
Error32
April 7th, 2008
at 9:13am
You all are dumb! (window users are)..
It was a joke that Chris did. It was a lot of fun watching all of you in chat saying did Chris switch back to windows? im not being mean or anything im just saying,next time don’t take it so Seriously! what ever happen to laughing on April fools? I guess, people don’t know how to do it anymore very sad.
I knew it was joke when i saw it. I laugh so hard that day. come on people
LAUGH.! :)
twitch6000
April 11th, 2008
at 3:35pm
I admit you almost got me until I seen on the video I seen april 1.
zippysky11
April 12th, 2008
at 3:17am
i just got a DS
gyzmopr
April 20th, 2008
at 2:35am
let me do you a favor:
windows != mac (you stand now corrected)
iphone is not only a phone, is a device with OS X and is more extensible as a device than Firefox as a browser. (just look at the ton of amounts of apps in youtube)
As a phone, iPhone sounds much clearer than a regular phone, (its speakerphone is amazing)
I could care less about PSP. spend less time gaming and learn outside windows
gyzmopr
April 20th, 2008
at 2:41am
For those of you who don’t know Dave, Dave began doin geek journaling right when Micro$oft took off in 95. he’s been pretty much watching technology evolving and was a huge Microsoft fan throughout 95 and on… he now enjoys Apple as a solution. He writes much better opinions to me than bought people from ZDNet. He knows tech.
R4d1anc3
May 3rd, 2008
at 3:25am
classical…
applaud!!!
siredline08
May 5th, 2008
at 11:10am
Damn Chris got me good i couldnt belive he would go back to vista after all that talk about mac but jokes on us!!
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