Gee, April Fools Day sure is irritating on the internet.

So, along with stupid cat captions and getting people to watch a Rick Astley video unwittingly, the collective comedic genius of the internet has decided that April 1st is the day when you get a bit retarded.

Reddit re-CSS’d their front page so it looked like Digg. The Guardian announced that they would be replacing their printed version and syndicating all articles through Twitter from now on, and YouTube hilariously displayed some of their videos… UPSIDE DOWN! I mean, can you imagine? I know, right? HILARIOUS! HA! AHA! AHA! HA! HA!

While the entire internet may be LOLing their podgy, acne-ridden little faces off, it’s just getting a little tiresome here. Once again, it’s the internet’s greatest hobby: taking something reasonably funny and squeezing every little drop of humour out of it through constant repetition. I remember 3 or so years ago, a few sites engaged in a bit of April Fool’s tomfoolery, but it’s now got to the point where people are building site directories listing all the ‘jokes’ sites are coming up with for April 1st.

Or maybe I’m just being a miserable sad sack. To be fair, I like jokes as much as anybody else. I just always thought jokes were meant to be funny.

Take a look at April Fool’s Day On The Web for a big list of how all your favourite sites displayed their supreme lack of sense of humour today.