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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. - 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. ------- 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. ------- 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 ------- Thoughts? Complaints? Not a robot? If some aspect of April Foolery was missed in this news post, please tell us @comments. Happy April 2nd! User Comments (13)
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