April Fools' Day
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
2022
A system of emoticons was introduced were an user could click on emoticons on a post to 'witness them', to buy with points 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)
