April Fools' Day: Difference between revisions
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A rake button gets added in every post, '''/qb/- Quebec''' is created, a counter on how many canadians there are on a given board shows up (some speculate this number was autogenerated), and flags were removed from every board that had them. An user could click on the rake to report canadians to 'deport' to '''/qb/''', although a warning before doing so warned that false reports will result in deportation as well. '''/qb/''' was a red board with no topic with every post having a canadian flag, that had the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRPGPAnPNa8 anthem of Canada] sounding in the background. | |||
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A system of emoticons was introduced were an user could click on emoticons on a post to 'witness them', to buy with points later. | A system of emoticons was introduced were an user could click on emoticons on a post to 'witness them', to buy with points given on random intervals later. | ||
===Soyjak Party=== | ===Soyjak Party=== | ||
Revision as of 12:31, 2 April 2022
April Fools' Day is an annual custom on April the 1st consisting of jokes and pranks. The jokes may be perpetrated by individuals as well as mass media and other actors.
April Fools' Day on imageboards
April Fools' jokes have been perpetrated by several imageboards, including 4chan and soyjak.party
4chan
2021
A rake button gets added in every post, /qb/- Quebec is created, a counter on how many canadians there are on a given board shows up (some speculate this number was autogenerated), and flags were removed from every board that had them. An user could click on the rake to report canadians to 'deport' to /qb/, although a warning before doing so warned that false reports will result in deportation as well. /qb/ was a red board with no topic with every post having a canadian flag, that had the anthem of Canada sounding in the background.
2022
A system of emoticons was introduced were an user could click on emoticons on a post to 'witness them', to buy with points given on random intervals later.
Soyjak Party
2021
A message was added on top of the website that read like the following:
Your IP ([Current IP Address]) has been logged by the FBI for browsing the following category: SUSPICIOUS WEBSITE - TERRORISM | For more info see: https://bit.ly/3duGBTs
The link lead to an image of Trollface.
2022
The joke consisted of the addition of a temporary word filter.[1] The following words were filtered:
soy = onions (in reference to the word filter on 4chan)
gem = coal
sharty = 4channel.org/qa/ (in reference to the now-deleted 4chan board)
bbc = bbcoal
bwc = bwchud
remilia = axe wound (in reference to a tripfag)
