Here are all of the lamest brand attempts at April Fools’ Day 2022

99 per cent of the time people on this silly floating rock are cynical and as miserable as sin. But on April 1st, every year like clockwork, we become a thousand times worse. One of life’s most basic tules is to never trust anything you read on the internet, which sometimes can be hard unless you’r reading any of these tragic April Fools’ day 2022 pranks from big brands and publishers.

You’d think all of these huge companies would have the ability to come up with a slightly feasible idea to catch people out. But alas, it seems anyone with a blue tick has completely forgotten about their ability to trick and fool. Here are the absolute lamest attempts by brands and publishers to fool people for this year’s April Fools

Rylexa

Don’t get me wrong, Rylan is an icon but is the best Amazon could do? Basically the prank is that Rylan is the new voice of Alexa and it’s now called “Rylexa”. Quite cringe if you ask me.

Ant and Dec

So we all remember last year when the famous duo swapped their names around to be Dec and Ant. Well now their new prank is that they’ve joined Crypto and launched “Toon Coin”.

McDonald’s

McDonald’s actually flopped today and failed to give us sceptics a mere crumb. The official McDonald’s UK account tweeted this morning: “Okay we’ve got to tell you. We had an April Fools ready – a hybrid Big Mac Breakfast McMuffin but it looked too good and our boss was worried you’d all try and order it.”

So instead of pranking us all, they’ve got 99p Big Macs in the McDonald’s app today. A very disappointing and shameful effort from Ronald.

A statue of Piers Morgan is coming to Trafalgar Square

The Sun smacked all their heads together for this year’s April Fools’ day and the outcome was photoshopping a statue of Piers Morgan – frightful, I know. Not only that but it’s a 10ft statue and they’ve even gone to the extent of naming Piers an “anti-woke warrior”.

The Sun even quoted a “leftie art critic” who apparently urged millennials to pul down the “tribute to white male privilege”.

Subway are releasing oil diffusers

Only 21 likes on this tweet? Come on Subway, get your shit together.

Walkers’ ‘Sandwich crisps’

I would buy ten thousand packets. This is a lame prank because the sting was too hard when we all clocked it wasn’t real.

AnnSummers have invented a ‘Clit-Bit’

“When you accidentally put on your Clit-Bit instead of your fitness watch before a run.” AnnSummers, please have some decorum. Our mothers use Twitter!!!

Related stories recommended by this writer:

• Molly-Mae confirmed to replace Lord Sugar as the new host of The Apprentice

• Umm, Shake has been announced as the new host of Love Is Blind on Netflix?!

• Meet the uni student who’s written her law dissertation on Clueless