Everyone loves a great April Fools' gag, right? Ha, just kidding: that stuff is only funny if it happens to someone else, and we never laugh so much as we express relief that we weren't the diabolical prankster's victim... this time.

So give yourself a pat on the back if you didn't fall for these extremely mean jokes this year—you've earned it. And if you did get played for a sucker, well, start planning your elaborate revenge, because you've got 365 days to work on it.

First up, we have these fake cake pops, which hurt just to look at. It's a waste of chocolate and Brussels sprouts! You monster!

Next up, this bogus pop-up ad from Pornhub, which definitely caused a few heart attacks today. Death is never funny, guys.

The BBC ran a fake article reporting that the government had banned all internet for children under the age of 13, and parents got to fool their kids with it. Some of the little ones' reactions were... pained.

And here we have the ol' toothpaste Oreo trick. Arguably as bad as the cake pops. Besides, we're waiting for the 'All Stuf' version.

And let's not forget the "where were you at work today?" text. Truly awful.

A close relation: the "you have to repeat a year of school" text.

This sign and these shirts at Seattle-Tacoma airport are nothing short of savage. Am I the only one who lives in mortal fear of a real-life Home Alone 2 situation?

Then again, finding out that someone has installed Windows 98 on your Mac would definitely be worse than an accidental vacation.

Again, good job if you managed to avoid these vicious "jokes," and if not, better luck next time. Also, enjoy April 2, unofficially known as the Day of Rebuilding Shattered Trust. It's not as catchy as "April Fools' Day," but it's all too real.

Gilbert Baker, the man who once famously described himself as a "gay Betsy Ross" was found dead in his home on Friday in New York City. He was 65. Baker was a well-known gay rights activist, and most famous for hand-dyeing and sewing eight strips of colorful fabric together to create the first iteration of today's gay pride flag. That was in 1978 in San Francisco, when another famous gay rights activist and city supervisor, Harvey Milk (who was later assassinated), asked for Baker's help putting together a symbol for the movement, The New York Times reports.

Today, we mourn the loss of Baker, celebrate his vibrant life and remember the great additions he made to the gay community. Here are some of the tributes to Baker from fans, allies and celebrities from around the world.

I'm fine with the general distaste for April Fool's Day. It makes people live in more fear than they normally do, and that's no way to live! And when the cruel holiday falls on a Saturday, it can be even more confusing to the world. I have a hard enough time figuring out when to eat when I my every move is not being regulated by my corporate overlords. Figuring out how to prank just seems like a lot of extra mean-spirited effort. Needless to say, plenty of people have choice words for April Fool's Day and all of it's bad hijinks. Here are some of today's biggest haters with funny takes on why today sucks:

You might have seen the viral video called "Hi Stranger" floating around the internet this week. It's creepy yet soothing, and reminds me of what it would be like to pillow talk with a sociopath made of wax. If you haven't watched it yet, take two minutes to let it make you feel lots of weird things before I explain what's coming next:

Okay, so now that you're thoroughly uncomfortable (because yes, you've know ogled the butt cheeks of a little wax man, and that's just the truth), let's get to the parody. Friday, on The Late Showwith Stephen Colbert, Colbert brought up the video saying that it had the internet divided. "Some people find it really comforting, and others want to know if you can take out a restraining order against a cartoon."

And since some people said it was the creepiest video they've ever seen online, Colbert and his team decided to take that as a challenge. What's creepier than a wax man without a nose staring deep into your soul? Well, Trump in a thong, for one. Here's the Late Show's parody of the video that is supposedly even creepier than the original:

It's called, simply, "Place." And it's a blank canvas that internet forum Reddit gave its users to create with on Friday. Was it a strange April Fool's joke or a social experiment to see how quickly things devolved into penises and memes?

"There is an empty canvas," the description of the page reads. "You may place a tile upon it, but you must wait to place another. Individually you can create something. Together you can create something more."

At the time of publishing, 61.2K people are on the page, working away to attempt to build art with each other, or to selfishly destroy what others have created before them. Already today I saw Mona Lisa go from this:

To this:

Are humans inherently good or inherently bad? Are we altruists or individualists? Are we horny assholes or nice people? I think all the answers are probably inside "Place," if you care to stick around and watch humanity dissolve, and be reborn dozens of times over, in the form of cartoon characters, flags and Pink Floyd cover art.

At long last, Bob Dylan has finally accepted his Nobel prize. Months after the announcement he barely acknowledged, the ceremony in December which he didn't attend, the 75-year-old singer-songwriter received his award at a small gathering Saturday afternoon (April 1), Billboard reports. The venue for the intimate ceremony was the hotel next to the conference center where Dylan was playing later that night. (I'm sorry that is the saddest sentence I will write today.)

But apparently, the ceremony was exactly what Dylan wanted. Klas Ostergren, a member of the Swedish Academy, told the AP, "it went very well indeed." The only attendees were members of The Academy and one of Dylan's staff members, which was "in line with the singer's wishes."

When Dylan first ignored, then later refused, his invitation to attend the ceremony in Sweden and accept his prize, the Nobel committee’s chairman called him “impolite and arrogant," but it could be that Dylan is just a shy, awkward dude. Of course, he made the whole thing a bigger deal by refusing to act normally about the award, thereby creating more attention than he would have by simply attending. (But then we probably wouldn't have had that moving tribute by Patti Smith.)

The other thing people forget is that Dylan didn't ask for any of this. (Did you know in order to get the award money ($894,800) that goes along with the award, he has to give a lecture within 10 months of December 10, 2016?) And according to The Washington Post, when he first found out he won, Dylan said, "If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel Prize, I would have to think that I’d have about the same odds as standing on the moon." Fair, considering Dylan probably never thought of his work as "literature" before that. Later that night at his concert, Dylan made no mention of the award or the day's ceremony that had happened hours before, perhaps because he truly is a humble, strange guy.

Tina Fey boldly addressed white women and how they exercise their privilege while speaking at a benefit for the ACLU on Friday night called "Stand For Rights." While Fey may not be known for slamming the administration on Twitter, and generally keeps a pretty low profile, she has never been one to back down from a stance if she feels strongly about it. At the benefit, she challenged white women who might have voted for Trump to think about the world beyond their immediate lives, and asked them to consider how certain issues affect other people.

"A lot of this election was turned by white, college-educated women who now would maybe like to forget about this election and go back to watching HGTV," Fey said. But she wasn't trying to belittle them for their interest in bad television. She continued: "I would want to urge them to like, ‘You can’t look away,’ because it doesn’t affect you this minute, but it’s going to affect you eventually. Again, open two windows. Do watch HGTV. But … to not turn our attention away from what is happening."

While many of us are feeling the exhaust and burnout from the news cycle churn that seems to reveal Bad Thing after Bad Thing, Fey feels the solution is not to just give up and ignore it. For those of us who have the privilege of simply ignoring the bad news (unlike others who are more directly affected by it), it is all the more important for us to stay vigilant and vocal to defend the freedoms of others. Fey has even recommended books to read during the current Presidency, Vulturereports. And at the end of the interview, Fey made a final statement challenging herself to continue to take action and stay politically engaged: "I personally would like to make my own pledge to college-educated white women to not look away, not pretend that things that are happening now won’t eventually affect me if we don’t put a stop to it."

She's not saying you gotta stop with the HGTV. But maybe rotate some books on activism in there too.

Rachel Dolezal has a hard time stopping herself from saying inflammatory things. And she's never apologized for them. But in her CNN interview on Saturday, her interviewer, Michael Smerconish, practically indulges her in the line of thinking that is murky at best. After reading her memoir, Smerconish says of her story, "I was thinking Caitlyn Jenner as I was reading the book. Is there an analogous situation here?"

Dolezal is hesitant to draw direct parallels, noting that all aspects of our identity (these two being race and sexuality) are different. But she does say there are some similarities between their stories. "Well, I think a lot of people have drawn that parallel," she tells Smerconish. "And I want to be careful because certainly every category of our identity is, you know, with its own unique circumstances and challenges." She continues:

"But for sure, there is some similarity in terms of harmonizing the outer appearance with the inner feeling, in terms of, you know, stigmatized identities, some people will forever see me as my birth category and nothing further. And the same with Caitlyn.”

Dolezal's interview comes on the heels of the release of her memoir, In Full Color: Finding My Place In A Black And White World. Several weeks ago she made headlines for admitting she has been unable to get work since she was outed for her misrepresentation as a black woman in 2015 (while serving as a branch president for the NAACP). Whether or not the book deal and tour will give people more compassion for her story has yet to be seen, though Smerconish took a less than harsh approach with her, and even offered her a chance to more full explain what she means when she says she is black.

"Black is a culture, a philosophy, a political and social view," she tells Smerconish. "I believe that race is a social construct." You can watch the full interview here.

As an incredibly lazy person, I'm always on the lookout for news that supports the continuation of my sedentary lifestyle. So I'm very pleased to report that a study comparing bathing to exercise found they shared similar benefits.

Metabolic researchers at the U.K.’s Loughborough University were behind this experiment, in which the effects of a hot bath (or "passive heating") were compared to those of physical activity. What they found is that warm baths burn as many calories as a 30-minute walk—although not as many as riding a bike. And while they cautioned that exercise "still offers the greatest overall benefit to weight control and metabolic health," they noted that hot baths also help to combat chronic inflammation and dampen blood sugar spikes after meals.

All of which is to say: The next time you're lounging about in the tub, idly making castles out of the mountains of bubbles while you listen to your favorite Enya playlist, and someone impatiently knocks on the bathroom door, you're free to shout "Go away, I'm working out!" Because now the science has your back.

Some folks killed two birds with one stone on Saturday night, by going out dancing and doing it to promote climate justice, LGBT rights. And they did it in front of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's $5.5 million D.C. home in the exclusive Kalorama neighborhood.

Hundreds of protestors rallied together to "send the clear message that our climate and our communities matter," Fox News reports. Specifically, the protests were a reaction to the Trump administration's rollback of Obama's climate change policies. Unfortunately, it was likely that the protests fell on deaf ears, as The Daily Mailreports that Ivanka was last spotted on Friday night in New York City with her family.

Some of the neighbors, however, were home. And boy did one of them not appreciate the racket. One 82-year-old resident supposedly yelled at the crowd, "get out of here! I live here... Do you want to get your f---ing face hit?" In the video, you can hear one protestor say to the resident, "do you want to hit me man?" to which he replies, "I'd love to." While the video (which you can watch, courtesy of The Daily Mail, below), shows a heated exchange, police told WUSA that the protests ended peacefully. And the video of protestors dancing to KeSha's "Blow" looks like it was a pretty good time.

Last Sunday was Mother's Day in the U.K., and a creative ad agency that happens to be named Mother itself wanted to make a big, bouncy statement for the occasion. So they put a giant inflatable breast on top of a building in London's Shoreditch neighborhood.

While the massive mammary was certainly worth gawking at no matter the context, the agency explained that it was meant to highlight the stigma mothers feel about breastfeeding.

"It’s hard to believe that in 2017 U.K. mothers still feel watched and judged when feeding in public, by bottle or breast," the company wrote in a blog post. "This was our Mother’s Day project. A celebration of every woman’s right to decide how and where they feed their children without feeling guilty or embarrassed about their parenting choices." The building itself was plastered with signs bearing the hashtag #FreeTheFeed.

I personally have no issue with women feeding their infants wherever and however they want, but if it takes more public displays of enormous inflatable breasts to bring other people over to that point of view, well, I fully support that. Heck, bring a pair next time.

Al Gore is sick of your excuses.

The former vice president's 2006 documentary about climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, scared us silly with its dire predictions about the fate of our planet. More than a decade later, Gore sees reasons to be optimistic, thanks to a surge in renewable energy and environmental treaties like the Paris Agreement.

But, he says in the trailer for his follow-up film, An Inconvenient Sequel, it's not enough. We see him watching, with a mixture of anger and disbelief, clips of Donald Trump denying the realities of global warming and promising to demolish the EPA. "The next generation would be justified in looking back at us and asking, 'What were you thinking?!'" Gore yells to his own audience.

And, he adds in a defiant moment: "Don't let anybody tell you that we're gonna get on rocket ships and live on Mars. This is our home."

The film premieres on July 28, assuming Earth still exists then.

The thing about pranks is that usually they go wrong. And the following story is only further proof of that statement. The retelling, posted to Reddit's TIFU (Today I Fudged Up) page by user Bcox2294, serves as concrete evidence that April Fool's Day never works out well, it always ends up hurting people's feelings, and inevitably makes the prankster look like a jerk.

"Most April fool's day I don't do anything," the story opens, which is some obvious foreshadowing of bad ideas to come, if I've ever seen it. "But last night I was the last one in the office and decided to prank a few of my less techy coworkers." (The rest of the story is clearly the result of bad karma he receives for lording his supreme techy-ness over his coworkers.) Now, we get into what Bcox2294 does to supposedly prank his coworkers:

"The first thing I did was turn off auto sleep, then I pulled up a fake update website and full screened it so unless they pressed F11 they couldn't exit the browser. The last thing I decided to do was play Rick Astley's 'Never Going to Give You Up' in a new tab at low volume so it would just mildly disturb them. Now that the prank was set up I turned the video on loop and full screened the fake update, and then I went home."

Ah, the innocence and joy he must have felt as he headed home from the office filled with self-satisfaction over such a harmless prank! But when Bcox2294 headed into work the next morning, he was served a firsthand experience of Steinbeck's famous truism: "the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry." And go awry the did:

When I came in the next day I was excited to see how they would react but when I got to the office I didn't hear any Rick Astley, but I did see a few irritated coworkers.

Uh oh. Something clearly had gone wrong.

Apparently on the old office computers it had overheated from running all night and now the computers won't turn on. Now I owe several hundred dollars in computer repairs and I am probably the least favorite in the office :(

Man, all that for a little 'Never Gonna Give You Up' humor. (Though I am shocked their computers were so old and bad that it was only hundreds of dollars of damage, and not thousands.) This is why Never Prank (along with Never Tweet) is an edict we must all accept and live by. You can rarely prove it wrong, and when you have to eat crow, man it really takes away your appetite for pranking for a long, long time.

For a long time now we've all agreed that tossing a package onto someone's roof was the most unhelpful thing a delivery person could do. But it turns out that there's a worse place for your precious parcel to end up.

Sam Cooke of Manchester, U.K. was the victim this time around, and had the misfortune of being serviced by a Royal Mail carrier who tried just a little too hard to ensure delivery. Putting Cooke's package through his flat's only accessible open window, he dropped it right into the toilet.

That's quite a bull's-eye, not to mention a compelling argument for always keeping your toilet lid closed. But hey, at least the guy seemed embarrassed about it! Cooke followed up to say that the "postie" was coming by to apologize.

With a little luck, they'll become fast friends and have a good laugh about this. Because peeing in a mailbox for revenge could get a bit messy.

Much has been made this week of the fact that Vice President Mike Pence is too afraid of women to eat or drink in their presence unless he has his wife by his side. He claims it's a religious issue, but in reality, it seems more like an excuse to never hire them for positions of any importance in government.

Nonetheless, arch-conservatives have rushed to defend Pence's "values." One such commentator—Bryan Fischer, former Director of Issues Analysis for the American Family Association and current host of AFA talk radio program Focal Point—even suggested that the women in media roasting Pence for his creeping misogyny secretly want to marry a guy just like him.

Oh boy! Can't wait for all those snake-ladies to admit that he's right.

Whew. With not a single supportive answer here, it seems like Fischer may have finally learned his lesson about what America really believes in.

Ugh. Never mind.

Pro-wrestlers John Cena and Nikki Bella got engaged last night live during WrestleMania 33, and this isn't just a kayfabe-gagement— the couple has been together for over four years IRL.

Well you know what they say, the couple that wrestles together...

Cena popped the question to Bella after the couple (spoiler alert!) defeated The Miz and Maryse in a mixed tag team match on Sunday in Orlando.

Damn! Nikki better take that thing off before she wrestles or she'll do some real damage.

Of course, Nikki said yes and the two then smashed their impressively ripped bodies together for a long hug. It was definitely the second-most tear-jearking moment of the evening (#thankyoutaker). May their marriage be filled with hustle, loyalty and respect.

Who knows, maybe Cena and Bella will bring their wedding rings into the wrestling ring and have their wedding on Smackdown Live! Vince McMahon, will you be around to officiate?

Sunday was World Autism Awareness Day, and Paul Ryan saw the perfect opportunity to balance out his zeal for cutting Medicaid, a program that benefits people with autism. A handy blue pin! This makes up for everything, right?

Lauren Rabin, the founder of the Autism Family Center, gave a comprehensive review of how Paul Ryan's replacement for Obamacare would affect coverage for autism. Suffice to say, it's complicated—but the cuts to Medicaid, that Paul Ryan has said he "dreams" about—would have "serious consequences" for "low-income Americans" with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Rising costs for "people in need of constant care," like "those seeking treatment and therapies for ASD" would also hurt.

The Twitter reactions to Paul Ryan's hypocrisy were furious.

But it's perhaps this one specific interaction that's the most troubling for some:

Get educated, and don't rely on a pin for healthcare.

Paris Jackson, daughter of Michael Jackson, King of Pop, slammed a troll who attempted to body-shame her on Twitter, claiming she'd gained weight (since she was a child? Well, who hasn't, then?). According to Refinery29, Paris Jackson walked two red carpets this weekend, prompting some random stranger to tweet at her, "yes you have out [sic] on a little weight."

In response, Jackson tweeted, "fuck yeah I have," because what the hell, man?

And other people backed her up with tweets of their own, pointing out that they, too, have done that perfectly normal thing of gaining weight, too.

The original rando defended his tweet, which he (and no one else) apparently found funny. Ha. Ha.

Man, online trolls really are a very particular, sad kind of human. To body-shame someone, or to think talking about anyone's weight is "amusing," is the sign of a very sad sense of humor.

On Friday night in Santa Monica, CA, one of the great viral freakouts of all time was caught on camera. A couple were waiting to order at a takeout poke bowl restaurant when a total stranger saw them showing each other a small amount of affection, and immediately exploded into a supernova of slut-shaming rage. The boyfriend of the couple caught most of her rant on video and shared it to Reddit, where it went viral. Here's how he described the incident.

Last night my girlfriend of four years and I were waiting patiently for a lady to order her food at this restaurant in Santa Monica, and I had my arms around her from behind and maybe kissed her on the top of the head once or twice, but that was the extent of it.

Out of nowhere, the lady (who was finalizing her transaction) looks at us and exclaims emphatically how inappropriate PDA was and how uncomfortable it was making her. I thought she was joking because of how little we were actually making contact. I turned and kissed my girlfriend on the cheek and made a loud smack, and that’s where she really lost it. I immediately knew I had to get this on camera, so that’s about where the video picks up.

We tried to stay as calm as possible. I was trying not to engage as I knew this lady was clearly nuts, but when she started calling my girlfriend a slut, whore, etc, and when she stepped closer to her, that’s when I started getting angry. In retrospect, I’m proud that we didn’t sink to her level or anything like that, but wish I would’ve said some more clever remarks. Oh also, I fucked up by not filming in portrait mode – Sorry about that.

And here's the video. Warning: this will make you grind your teeth.

Of course, the commenters were all over this one. Everyone agreed on what the best moment was.

Think of this video the next time you and your significant other are about to get into some PDA. For the sake of decency, maintain at least three feet between you at all times. And wear rubber gloves.

Blake Shelton admits that his forearm tattoo might be the "crappiest tattoo not only in country music, but maybe the world," but his girlfriend Gwen Stefani's sons seem to approve of it. According to People, Stefani's kids, Kingston, 10, Zuma, 8, and 3-year-old Apollo emulated Blake Shelton's confusing arm tattoo by inking themselves in a much less permanent way— with Sharpie marker.

Stefani posted the adorable picture to Twitter account.

In case you couldn't tell (and many people can't), the tattoo is of deer tracks surrounded by barbed wire. In 2013, Blake Shelton told Access Hollywood that he designed the tattoo himself after a night of drinking, and confesses that fans confuse the ink with everything from coffee beans to lady bugs.

Let's just hope that the boys don't want to make the homage permanent when they turn 18.