Google Inc on Thursday cancelled April Fool’s Day for the
second time in a row due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to Business Insider, Google executives sent out an
internal email to managers earlier in March asking them to ‘pause the jokes' in
light of the disruption caused by COVID-19 in the past year. Google has decided
to stop its April Fools pranks for second year in a row due to the hardships
that people have had to face during the lockdowns and the pandemic-scare.
Google's VP of global marketing, Marvin Chow, in his email
said, “As you will remember, last year we made the decision to pause our
longstanding Google tradition of celebrating April Fools' Day, out of respect
for all those fighting COVID-19. With much of the world still grappling with
serious challenges, we feel we should again pause the jokes for April Fools'
Day this year. Like we did last year, we should continue to find appropriate
ways to bring moments of joy to our users throughout the year (e.g. Doodles,
easter eggs, etc.).”
An official statement from Google was also shared by The
Verge. “In 2020, we made the decision to pause our longstanding Google
tradition of celebrating April Fools' Day, out of respect for all those
fighting COVID-19. With much of the world still grappling with serious
challenges, we will again pause the jokes for April Fools' Day in 2021,” the
statement reads.
While Google is choosing to be sensitive to the ongoing
global scenario and the looming coronavirus second wave that seems to be worse
than the initial one, some companies in India are still choosing to post jokes
and pretend to be completely oblivious to the disruptions in the outside world.
Flipkart announced that it is now accepting Bitcoin as an official mode of
payment inside the app and asked all users to update immediately.
Realme also played an elaborate prank by teasing multiple
Meow-branded products, including the Meow Book, a 100-inch Meow TV, Meow AI
Speaker, and even Meow VR Glasses. However, in its recent tweet it said that
this may be an April Fools prank, and nothing else.
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