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A brief summary of what occurred on April 1st 2014 for those of you who were not able to attend or fled in horror during the course of the day.

In the past, the IG had usually went with one giant interface screw of an April Fools prank and called it a day. Due to various factors, that didn't happen this year, which resulted in a mixture of various things initiated by both staff and nonstaff members. This led to a lot of variety in what you encountered, but also made it fun in a different way than past years. Thanks everyone!

Pranks that occurred:

- Gag featured content. The featured content was updated... with things that would normally not be in there without the use of drugs, and were poorly formatted in general. Given how well some of the featured content displays have turned out in the past, you may have thought this was real, so a doozy was put at the front to try and avoid that. Featured content pics: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

- Livio may/may not have been given an automatic script to spam the chatbox with every time new posts happened in the chatbox. How original. In his defense,
'Livio' said:
I am not a robot.
The jury is out; you decide. See what is left of the chatbox for evidence.

- Soccerboy suggesting inter-ducing the use of #hashtags on the Interguild. Likewise with the Goat Simulator, this is a brilliant idea that shouldn't have its innovation be held back by being taken seriously on a single day of the year. #injustice

- As a #response to the suggestion, around 2 PM EST, Canadianstickdeath came on and decided to spice things up by using censors to turn "#AprilFools" into an embedded 10 hour Rick Roll video, and kicked off its usage by posting it in the chatbox, marring it for the rest of the day. This caused everything from audio spam to minor lag issues.

- Said minor lag issues were maximized later in the evening when Livio's catchphrase was also censored into an embedded 10 hour Rick Roll, causing a hellish display such as



This caused large amounts of lag, suffering upon Bmwu's bandwidth, and many people to temporarily give up. This is the closest I will ever get to blowing up the site. Unfortunately, 2 minutes to midnight EST time, Livio changed this in a rare sign of sentience. #rekt

- Thomas, Jorster, and Darvince took on a Yimmy-like persona, having a different type of questionable grammar, challenging people to cave races, and Thomas made his own mock weekend update. It was actually kind of funny.

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Possible pranks that occurred:

- Thomas, Darvince, Bmwsu, and Yaya all switched their avatars to pictures of themselves IRL (SPOILERS: Thomas is a ginger). I prefer to remain a bumper of fists, but it is unknown whether everyone else will be keeping these or not, or maybe they were just a timely, coordinated coincidence. Thus making it a possible prank.  

-Thomas, Darvince, Jorster also gave themselves a new shiny, tribalistic signature. It also is unknown as to whether they will keep this. I (Yaya) also embraced my inner Spaniard.

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Not pranks in the slightest #seriousbusiness:

- CSD came on and posted in the chatbox. This is news.

- Jellsprout may/may not be a horse. More details to follow.

- Thomas came out as a supporter of homeschooling. It's not like it was much of a secret before, but we should embrace the courage he required to make this decision and support him every step of the way through his rough emergence. #itgetsbetter

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Thoughts? Complaints? Not a robot? If some aspect of April Foolery was missed in this news post, please tell us @comments. Happy April 2nd!
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Jorster
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Wednesday, April 2 2014, 1:04 am EST
mfw

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The whole clique did the Yimmy persona thing. It was largely Thomas though


Isa
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Wednesday, April 2 2014, 3:39 am EST
No. I'm an octopus.

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I for one heard multiple Rick Astleys upon opening IG and decided it was a good moment to take a one day break from IG.
Thomas
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Wednesday, April 2 2014, 4:11 am EST
the clique shall prevail

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something that was forgotten was that yimmy got positive karma for once
soccerboy13542
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Wednesday, April 2 2014, 6:32 pm EST
~*~Soccer~*~

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Wait! People thought my hashtag proposition was an April Fool's joke? #outrage #notcool


'Livio' said:
You know, I was thinking of getting an internship at Microsoft, but I'm not sure I want their lameness to rub off on me.
Neezles N HB
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Wednesday, April 2 2014, 8:20 pm EST

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Thomas is really hot in real life. -Madison
soccerboy13542
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Wednesday, April 2 2014, 8:27 pm EST
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I always forget that thomas is ginger.


'Livio' said:
You know, I was thinking of getting an internship at Microsoft, but I'm not sure I want their lameness to rub off on me.
Darvince
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Wednesday, April 2 2014, 9:37 pm EST
sea level change

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I am a robot.


"Time is a circuit, not a line; cybernetics instantiates templexity."

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Friday, April 4 2014, 4:58 pm EST
  

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Quote:
- Livio may/may not have been given an automatic script to spam the chatbox with every time new posts happened in the chatbox. How original.
This was most likely a relic of last year's prank. I'm not sure why it only says "I am a robot" now, but I know that Livio set the whole LivioBot script to run if either of the following are true:
-dando52 is online
-It is april first

I noticed throughout the year that if I logged onto D52 that Livio would always come on, and if I stayed on for too long he would post that message in the chatbox, leading me to believe that he never actually disabled that feature. I never really thought about the fact that it would run again the next April Fools day, though.



spooky secret
shos
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Saturday, April 5 2014, 12:28 pm EST
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I can't believe I missed april's fools here

on the bright side, I fooled my mother that I'm getting married, my gf's pregnant, and that I broke the fridge


Darvince
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Saturday, April 5 2014, 12:35 pm EST
sea level change

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Why didn't you try to convince her that YOU were pregnant?


"Time is a circuit, not a line; cybernetics instantiates templexity."

Isa
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Saturday, April 5 2014, 12:40 pm EST
No. I'm an octopus.

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because we've already done that
jellsprout
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Saturday, April 5 2014, 2:26 pm EST
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'shos' said:
I can't believe I missed april's fools here

on the bright side, I fooled my mother that I'm getting married, my gf's pregnant, and that I broke the fridge


Wow, that is pretty extreme. You must have really freaked her out when you said the fridge was broken.


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Yaya
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Saturday, April 5 2014, 6:07 pm EST

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Prediction: Jazz will come back April 1st 2015, crowning off a yearlong April Fools prank in the making.



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