*My April Fools Pranks*
#1. Joke Brawl Power Rankings for NE
I put up fake Power Rankings for New England. They were technically due April 1st, so instead of putting up the real rankings, I put up a fake image I created and wrote up fake reasoning to go with it. Believe it or not, quite a few people fell for the fake rankings. They looked pretty believable. You can check it out here:
Joke PR Image: http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/6647/neapril1st2011rankings.png
Joke Reasoning: http://allisbrawl.com/forum/topic.aspx?pid=1282174#p1282174 (if you're reading this past April 1st, you'll have to scroll down to the bottom)
#2. Youtube Video
I put up a video for Brawl claiming that LV9 CPUs are impossible while showing a few clips of the CPU KOing or comboing me. The joke itself is an old GameFAQs joke from back in the Melee days, where a player would jokingly claim a LV9 is impossible, and skeptical readers would comment on how the player is just bad at the game and how they beat CPUs all the time. The original player would likely respond with "you're lying."
*Other Website April Fools Pranks*
Youtube
Youtube's seemingly only prank is a joke about how the site worked back in 1911, or something alone those lines. You can watch videos using the 1911 button to see them displayed in old movie & music style, replacing the videos original audio. It's pretty amusing if you watch certain videos with it.
GameFAQs
Well the front page makes it pretty obvious. There's a joke 40 year anniversary page for GameFAQs, as well as the poll of games that will likely never be released (or even made). Lastly, there's an Awesome Mode option in the upper right area that turns the website into a gigantic eye sore.
AllisBrawl
Neal went all out this year with April Fools pranks. To start it off, everyone has had their avi changed again to something random. Instead of Pokemon, it was changed to random animated sprite gifs of older video game characters. Pretty neat to see who got who, but apparently it's changeable if you know how, which sort of defeats the purpose of it being random. The front page has a poll on which user should be the next AIB Admin. All of the members in the poll are known trolls. The MLG livestream link to a Brawl Throwback Event links to a Starcraft song parody of Justin Bieber's song "Baby." All the videos on the site were changed to a video where Neal gets a hug from someone.
To make things even more interesting, all comments on the site changes a user name to "Admiral [username], Literally." The Admiral part is a joke against the user Admiral Pit, who is generally hated by most of the site, or just trolled for being weird, rather. The "literally" part is because Neal made a blog a few weeks back calling everyone out who uses the word "literally" wrong. Needless to say, tons of people trolled the blog using "literally" wrong. It's a pretty amusing inside joke, but makes figuring out who made the comment rather difficult. The sites trading card display replaces all characters with Fox, all stages with Final Destination, and removes all Items. Melee joke, really.
Last but not least, there's a joke ModCP, where all users have the ability to view and submit mod commands. For example, there's a Ban User, where a user will get a badge if they try to ban Toonblade (or I think any user on the front page poll). There's a Badge command, Ladder Dispute command, Mod Ladder, and the most amusing, Toonblade Tracker. Toonblade is a known annoying troll on the site, sometimes claimed to be Neal's alt account, so Toonblade Tracker displays all his activity, while adding a few amusing notes, such as when he annoys a mod, or when he makes a spelling error.
Smashboards
Smashboards appears to have replaced the front page with a terrible color scheme, and renaming the site to "The Friday World Forums". The banner at the top is an image of Rebecca Black. Sadly this makes the site an eye sore, and hard to put up with. To make things worse, the front page auto players the song "Friday." This seems more like a major troll than an April Fools prank.
Overall, most were pretty annoying or uninteresting. I found Aib's to be most amusing out of all the others. Whatever happened to making April Fools jokes without making the website impossible to withstand?
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