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On April 01 2009 08:41 infinity21 wrote:
You're completely missing the point. The reason why your joke wasn't funny is not because you fooled some people here completely here but because the joke was too forced. In order to construct a practical joke, you must let the idea flow. Especially for a day such as this where people are on guard, it is imperative that you strike with the utmost precision. You slipped up in numerous ways such as inserting pictures that aren't even linked in the article and editing pictures in Paint. Those were unnatural -- which will send warning signals to the wary.
Practical jokes must be meticulously crafted so that there are no visible holes in the story until you choose to reveal them to your victims. I suggest you try it on your friends more often to get a good feel for the construction and timing. By picking a story that's more than 3 months old, you have ensured that even the non-Korean reading folks will be able to break down your poorly constructed story.
There is no reason to try so hard to be funny. If an opportunity rises, then you should definitely jump on it. If there was a recent article that had pictures of some old guy in a suit or even no pictures, it would have been more convincing than inserting a picture of Jaedong and Fantasy. This shows that you didn't put yourself in the victim's shoes nor think this through. Skeptics will question why you decided to put in 2 pictures that aren't in the article and not put in the only picture that was in the article. As it is tradition to link all the pictures from an article in a translation, you made a grave mistake. In essence, your attitude towards this whole situation is utterly wrong. It's not "oh, it's April fools, I'm going to fool someone today no matter what!", it should be "I will do my best to commit the perfect crime but will not settle for anything less".
There's no class in fooling these hapless people who trust in everything they read on the internet. When you look back a year later, people will never go, "oh yeah, do you remember when motbob completely had us fooled for a whole day? that was hilarious". In a week, this thread will disappear into the depths of the TL database, never to be brought up again. You will never be known as 'that guy' who made the epic April Fools thread. I'm sorry I had to say it, but it's the truth.
You're completely missing the point. The reason why your joke wasn't funny is not because you fooled some people here completely here but because the joke was too forced. In order to construct a practical joke, you must let the idea flow. Especially for a day such as this where people are on guard, it is imperative that you strike with the utmost precision. You slipped up in numerous ways such as inserting pictures that aren't even linked in the article and editing pictures in Paint. Those were unnatural -- which will send warning signals to the wary.
Practical jokes must be meticulously crafted so that there are no visible holes in the story until you choose to reveal them to your victims. I suggest you try it on your friends more often to get a good feel for the construction and timing. By picking a story that's more than 3 months old, you have ensured that even the non-Korean reading folks will be able to break down your poorly constructed story.
There is no reason to try so hard to be funny. If an opportunity rises, then you should definitely jump on it. If there was a recent article that had pictures of some old guy in a suit or even no pictures, it would have been more convincing than inserting a picture of Jaedong and Fantasy. This shows that you didn't put yourself in the victim's shoes nor think this through. Skeptics will question why you decided to put in 2 pictures that aren't in the article and not put in the only picture that was in the article. As it is tradition to link all the pictures from an article in a translation, you made a grave mistake. In essence, your attitude towards this whole situation is utterly wrong. It's not "oh, it's April fools, I'm going to fool someone today no matter what!", it should be "I will do my best to commit the perfect crime but will not settle for anything less".
There's no class in fooling these hapless people who trust in everything they read on the internet. When you look back a year later, people will never go, "oh yeah, do you remember when motbob completely had us fooled for a whole day? that was hilarious". In a week, this thread will disappear into the depths of the TL database, never to be brought up again. You will never be known as 'that guy' who made the epic April Fools thread. I'm sorry I had to say it, but it's the truth.
You just wasted 4 paragraphs because no matter what I do, the first person who can speak Korean can just tell everyone I sourced a fake article.
