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Topic: A recap of Theymos April fool Jokes from 2015 till date (Read 665 times)

sr. member
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Now that's funny--can't say I've ever seen a negative merit count in someone's profile.  Who's got the lowest so far, I wonder?

Someone will need to scrap the data and show us some stats on that real quick before it's all back to normal. So far from what I've seen, Cyrus is on top of the leaderboard.
legendary
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Another great day to be alive.

-42 merit  Grin
Now that's funny--can't say I've ever seen a negative merit count in someone's profile.  Who's got the lowest so far, I wonder?

I haven't seen this thread in a while, and it just struck me that I was here for the first April Fool's Day joke in 2015, though I probably didn't appreciate its significance at the time, nor do I remember that avatar joke from the first year.  Seems like the pranks Theymos pulled regarding merits have gotten the most excited response from members who don't know what's going on. 

Nothing will beat the day the merit system was created, though.  Good thing that wasn't a joke.
hero member
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I think your description of this year's April Fool's joke is wrong. According to theymos and from what I observed, we will not lose merits due to posts shorter than 15 characters, but quite the opposite - for every 15 characters we post, we will lose one Merit point. The joke is that the system actually penalizes long posts, and encourages writing short replies to reduce "shitposting". Another thing you didn't mention is that there is a system whereby you will earn a bit of merit just by reading posts.


Thank you for the correction. At first I was confused when I made more than 15 characters and all of a sudden merit crashed, that's was when I lost completely but you are correct after many observations. I will make the edit right away.

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Another bunch of merit gone. Cheesy
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Another great day to be alive.

-42 merit  Grin
sr. member
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The recent one was great and entertaining, the troll when you need to repeat the flappy bird game was just annoying but similar to the last year's April Fools.

This joke was just so fun when I joined the forum in 2017 it was really fun to have this kind of troll so that we also have some fun here not just some serious discussions. The Virus thing was the best because you thought the website was just getting destroyed.

Excited for the next year April fool  Grin let's see what the next one is.

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do you mean the signature campaign? after I posted my application there I realized that it was too good to be true and was just a prank since the rate was too high and the fact that it was posted on April 1.

Most likely that one. In fact, a few actually opened threads in the Reputation subforum to voice their disapproval.
sr. member
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The only April Fools in this topic that I witnessed and was tricked by was the one from the previous year. The April Fool joke concerning IQ testing from last year got me to reflect on my journey in the forum by making me reevaluate whether or not my participation in the forum was over as a result of my poor score. My attitude was affected all day long till the realization that it was all a prank the following day.
Though I'm new to the forum and this is my first time of experiencing this kind of prank on the forum, but when I saw it few minutes the post was made I didn't fall for it. My instincts told me this could be some sorts of prank since it's the first day of April and it turns out I was right. It's good to have something like this once in a while to ease off stress, enough of all the bitcoin and crypto talks, to just laugh and catch fun is good for the community.

Thanks to you OP, for putting up the past April fool's prank together, you did a great job.
sr. member
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The only April Fools in this topic that I witnessed and was tricked by was the one from the previous year. The April Fool joke concerning IQ testing from last year got me to reflect on my journey in the forum by making me reevaluate whether or not my participation in the forum was over as a result of my poor score. My attitude was affected all day long till the realization that it was all a prank the following day.
I feel bad for you there. We know that there are people experiencing different days in their lives, some are good while others are bad. and adding the pranks is somehow making your day worse than currently it is. Just like what happened to me the last week on that "suspected a spammer" prank, I actually review all my posts to see if I really did spam or maybe someone mistook and tagged me. All sorts of bad scenarios are already forming in my mind, not until I saw that most of the members who have green trusts are also tagged by it, I sighed in relief after that although my mood isn't good that day due to personal reasons, I promised to myself that day that I would beat this game just to let go what I felt, coz to be honest I really thought it was already over for my account. Even after knowing that it was all a prank after scouring some sections on this forum before going to the meta boards, my dismay and my willingness to remove the tag was even more serious than before knowing it was a prank.

That is why I have said on the main thread on last week's prank that, I will show @theymos that I can play along on his pranks and prove that I can beat that game Grin. I somehow missed the game to be honest.
sr. member
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The only April Fools in this topic that I witnessed and was tricked by was the one from the previous year. The April Fool joke concerning IQ testing from last year got me to reflect on my journey in the forum by making me reevaluate whether or not my participation in the forum was over as a result of my poor score. My attitude was affected all day long till the realization that it was all a prank the following day.
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Wow!! What an amazing April Fool fun in the forum. I didn't experienced all those ones expect this year (2023) April fool. Really it was frightened at first sight but later it became fun along with others. 2024 April fool thread will be more dangerous than this year's own. And theymos might active an April fool thread permanently to create new change in the forum where victims will be banned,

The worst April fool I have experienced in physical life and also in the forum this year was the uncle Royse777 event, which can and spoiled my day for me. Royse April fool was to hurt users and it was not for fun.
legendary
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Thanks for making this topic. I remember almost all pranks like it was yesterday and I only missed first theymos prank in 2015, as I only signed up here later that year. It's very difficult for me to pick which one was best. I must admit that few times theymos really caught me. That moment when you visit forum in early morning, still didn't wake up fully -a bit WTF is going on, until you realise what date is today Cheesy.
That one with merit requirements was great one. Merit was very hot topic then, it was still fresh thing and there was lot of hate about it. Many people accepted this prank seriously.
And KYC requirements - I just burst out laughing when some users seriously started posting their selfies with passports in their hands Cheesy.
theymos is very creative guy to prepare such pranks each year and turned it in tradition, which is awaited by many users here.
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Theymos is truly amazing, and his jokes are not only funny but also entertaining. His sense of humor surpasses that of many stage comedians, and I admire him for it. Keep up the great work, Theymos! Additionally, I appreciate the effort of the poster who took the time to find those jokes from 2015 to 2023.
Of course, he always has new ideas to make a different Joke every year. Although some forum users already suspected what Theymos was doing was an April Fools joke, he made it sound like it was real. April Fools this time apart from being entertaining as well as challenging, Forum users must solve Captcha to remove the tag This user is a suspected spammer! in the post he made.

Curious what Theymos will do at April Fools 2024.
sr. member
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April fool can be surprising and full of fun because you sometimes got lots of surprises and tricks as well, while at the other hand it can also be annoying because some people easily got pissed with expensive jokes they believed to be real and later turn out to be a prank, so in doing April fool, we should be guided as well as observing the category of people we take on this and also make sure that we know the kind of prank or joke to make in other not to make people scare and ranged in anger, but i like the ones on this forum because they are entertaining.
legendary
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||Crypto was having all attention shift to NFT in 2021 and as valuable digitals art was then, the Admin decided to introduce Fnfts for members and also a marketplace where everyone can put them for sale and you can be lucky to sell fnfts for a whoop of 50BTC, who doesn't like such amount of bitcoin? That was how some people fell for the Joke.

I think this one was my favorite.  It showed how a large community can come together to build value so easily.

This was also my favorite. Getting the random NFTs of other users and the varying "levels" of rareness was quite fun, as was trading them. Gmaxwell even made a floor sweeping bot that auto-purchased NFTs under a certain price. It was a race to see who could accrue the most fBTC before theymos brutally rugged all of us.  Cheesy

I ended up turning one of mine into a real NFT on Counterparty. I tried to give it to the dude who still wears it as his avatar but he didn't want it, lol.

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legendary
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It's always fun to see the April Fool's jokes on the forum every year, and it's great to see that even the old members still play along. I remember the "virus" joke from 2020, and that was also my first April Fool's joke on the forum that I experienced. It definitely caught me off guard!

It's cool to see that these jokes have been going on since 2015, and I think theymos and the administration team do a great job of keeping it fresh and interesting every year. I also appreciate the effort that went into compiling all the past events, it's always fun to look back and reminisce.
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One of the most memorable for me is the virus era I just got woke up in my bed and check the happenings in the forum and upon checking there's some random strokes and symbols in my account upon checking its the April first so I conclude that this is another event, in this recent event of captcha gives me too much frustration like that i play flappy bird on my phone because i cant make over ten with the score.
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