It is not 1PM yet and I have already fallen for an April Fools' Day prank. I woke up, flipped open my still Netflix-warm laptop, scrolled Twitter dead-eyed and came upon news headline:"All Pennsylvania kids to repeat their current grade next year," above a photo of Pennsylvania's governor Tom Wolf.
What did I do? I called over my mother, a sixth grade public school teacher in central Pennsylvania, and said"Did you see this?""Oh my god," she said. We clicked and waited."APRIL FOOLS!" screams a winking, tongue-sticking out emoji on the web page, which, in that moment, appeared to me as the face of evil incarnate."299796 people got pranked too.
Maybe I should've noticed the"article" was from"Extra-times.com" but this information, which would disrupt my parents' lives and their workplace for the next few years, seemed more than believable. Feeding my mom fake news via a Twitter prank and getting laughed at by a winking emoji is obviously a small humiliation but it did make me sadder than I was before.
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