Forums / Discussion / Meme Research

Have there been any websites on the Internet that have posted a joke articles, made pranks or have celebrated April Fools' Day in 2024?

Currently, it seems that the popularity of sites performing April Fools' pranks is dwindling. Any sources?

Okay. I found one. Dating sim Palworld trailer.

Mangadex is doing their usual fake ad shenanigans, albeit tamer than previous years' if I remember correctly. It's game devs and the like that are churning out the tomfoolery, with fake games, game modes, etc.

One prank I find noteworthy is this trailer

Because it really doesn't seem like a prank; it's an original IP, it has an art style that is very in line for Inti Creates, and it has what appears to be actual gameplay footage.

The video description itself explicitly mentions April Fools', so it's definitely not going to be a full-fledged game
BUT someone has pointed out that the characters are actually from Inti Creates' upcoming game, Card-en-Ciel, which is advertised as having (over?) 50 game worlds in its universe, so Divine Dynamo Flamefrit is probably one of those worlds. Was this all just one big promotional ploy for Card-en-Ciel?

all of 7tv's global emotes have turned into mspaint versions of themselves

Bulbapedia has been taken over by Larry, who has changed the color scheme to grayscale.

Rap Critic made a video where he reviews his infamous "Oh My God" song that went viral at the beginning of the year.

Temtem posted on their social media that update 1.7 will feature an arcade bar where games like Skyrim and Crema's own Immortal Redneck can be played.

VNDB has comments( well something from a chat thing I guess?) scrolling by your screen like on niconico videos.

IGN's annual April Fool's is an announcement for a "Virtual Boy Pro for Switch," a revival of Nintendo's most infamous game system as a VR/AR headset like the Apple Vision Pro:

CDPR announced a "floppy disk" version of Cyberpunk 2077, which comes on 97619 3.5 inch disketts:

And as an interesting bonus, I have something that at first SOUNDS like an April Fools joke, but nope it's 100% legit. Night Dive, the studio best known for their excellent remasters of many classic FPS games, just announced that the infamous 3DO and PS1 FPS "PO'ed" is getting a remaster for PC and all current consoles.

Techraptor did summary on what happens in video game world in April 1 2024.

Some points:

Epic posted on Bilibili it's acquiring Steam.

Deep Rock Galactic and real-life loot bug.

Powerwash Simulator has reversed, turning everything dirty.

Razer has announced Cthulhu Gaming Chair, "complete with "eight independent robotic arms" that "cater to your every want""

Guess I was wrong after all.

Pokemon Showdown’s sprites were changed to MS Paint meme versions.
Monstercat released a new song on their channel called Banana Song.
Adult Swim released puppet versions of Smiling Friends on their channel.
TF2 is doing its usual “convert everyone’s taunts into the laugh taunt”
All the Destiny 2 Leak discords were changed, either to have a perpetual “1 notification” as its picture, changing the discords layout or other things.
Warframes official discord got changed to be a Corpus discord.
Haven’t seen anything from Potato Custom MvM stuff but might be a new April fools day events.
NewGrounds hasn’t done anything which is surprising.

Rimworld is getting bought by Microsoft for 2,5 billion dollars

Content Warning released on steam
Parody of those youtuber multiplayer horror games
Discord has lootboxes now
GameXplain has a metroid prime trailer

4chan had a Yotsuba stock exchange.

Fimfiction had a story titled "This Story Will Explode in (insert timer here)," with the author updating the title every minute. The story is about various characters in Equestria realizing that their world is about to come to an end, only to find out that it was a false alarm.

Fanfic here

Derpibooru's April Fools 2024 was similar to April Fools 2015, where viewing certain images would cause the Desktop Pony versions of the characters to appear on screen. For example, an image with Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Derpy Hooves would have the pixellated versions of the three characters moving around on the screen. However, if an image had more than three characters appear in it, the website will spawn three random Desktop Pony versions of the characters in the image instead of all of the characters.

Arxiv has some April Fools' themed scientific papers Such as this one

"In Violation of the Prime Directive: Simulating detriments to Delta-Quadrant civilizations from the starship Voyager's impact on planetary rings"

While Know Your Meme didn't have one for this site they did release a fake trailer about a meme themed platform fighter.