A few April Fools have caught the spotlight today. One of the companies that unexpectedly joined the joke spree was the BBC's popular children's show Teletubbies , which aired in the '90s . Of course, the message was meaningful, as there was some truth under the joke.
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On March 31, the show's Twitter account posted the following image:
Following this, the children's show launched a fictional cryptocurrency called "TubbyCoin" using the power of "HugTech". WildBrain Labs has developed "HugTech" and uses "cryptographology" to share "Big Hugs" via the tradable TubbyCoins.
To "mine" TubbyCoin, anyone interested can share Big Hugs! Before long, most of the crypto Twitter started using the #TubbyCoin hashtag to share Big Hugs.
Michael Riley, owner of Teletubbies and Chief Brand Officer at WildBrain, stressed that TubbyCoin is not a cryptocurrency, but “WildBrain donating to charities is not a joke”.
The charity will help children get the "help they need in these difficult times." The company will "donate $ 5,000 to the Kids Help Phone" and add one dollar to its donations for each TubbyCoin "up to $ 10,000 in total" shared on social media.
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Some lesser-known jokes have garnered a lot of attention as an XRP analyst on Twitter solved a slightly more obvious joke today. Here is a tweet that Elon Musk joined Ripple as a board member and included an image of Musk with other Ripple executives:
↘️Elon Musk extended his support to Dogecoin [DOGE] today (again), and the tweet broke a resistance, causing a flurry of trading activity in Dogecoin, which rose from $ 0.0540 to $ 0.066. The tweet may not be an April fool; but it has had a good day on the meme-coin price charts.
"SpaceX will put a real Dogecoin on the real moon," Musk tweeted. Said.
However, not all jokes were clear, as with the e-commerce site Flipkart in India, which said on March 31 it would accept Bitcoin as a form of payment. The next day, the company announced that the tweet was an April 1 joke.
Considering that crypto-Twitter has attracted many mainstream companies lately, one wonders why this is thought to be funny.
One organization even predicted that the company would eventually accept Bitcoin one day:
By the way, another noteworthy tweet belonged to Peter Schiff. Bitcoin adversary and gold advocate admitted that all previous criticisms of crypto were false:
But given the fact that many companies are joking around on social media today, it seems certain that Schiff didn't really mean what he said