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Happy April Fools! Oldest Fansite Prank. Did anyone fall for it...? If anyone fell for it, I'm sorry...!! I thought to use the oldest fan site prank, that every other fan site must've used at least once for April Fools Day. I really didn't think anyone would fall for it. Generally, April 1st is the date where a million fan sites will suddenly announced, "I'm shutting this site down 'cuz...."
- 1.) I'm getting sued.
- 2.) Too much pressure.
- 3.) No Time. etc.
Two years ago, BoAJjang announced that they were closing because someone offered to buy them out for $50,000. Of course that turned out to be an April Fools prank. But it succeeded in tricking everyone, which proved that it was a good prank. ^__^ I hope everyone had a chance to witness other fun April Fools pranks! Its one of my favorite days in the year, so I usually visit lots of fan sites, hoping to witness a few jokes. Here are some other pranks that were pulled this year:
+ GMAIL - Announced a new feature for it's users to send mail by turning back time. Of course in reality, that would NOT be cool...!! But its pretty great that Gmail had a sense of humor, and was scaring their users with it.
+ YOUTUBE - When you accessed their site, it looked perfectly normal. But if you clicked on ANY of the Feature Videos, it linked you to a Rick Roll video.
+ Bleach DB Fansub Group - Released an 799MB video of a "Bleach" movie on torrent. Hundreds of downloads later, it was discovered that the "Bleach" video was actually a Giants' baseball game.
+ BreatheHeavy.com - World's largest Britney Spears fan site, all of a sudden announced that it was closing down, because a certain secret was accidentally leaked. Unfortunately for BreatheHeavy, after they said it was an April Fools joke, their visitors viciously cussed them out BIG time. Tsk tsk.
+ Erika-Sawajiri.net - Announced that Erika has decided to retire. April Fools!
+ Urei Kagrra - Screwed up it's layout and made it looked like it was hacked and destroyed. This one fool'd a lot of people.
+ GENVID - Stole the Official Sailor Moon web site, translated it into english, and announced that Sailor Moon is being re-licensed in the US again (Which of course is a lie). And after the pretty flash sequence... You were directed to a Rick Roll video.
+ UVERWORLD.org - Had this little script on their front page, making the visitor think that they were getting hacked, when accessing their front page.
^__^ Anyhow, I hope you all had fun this year, and don't get too mad at all the webmasters pulling their pranks. See you next April Fools Day! Same time same place. LOL Just kiddin' of course. Check back later this week for an update! -muah!- Happy April Fools Day!!
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