https://www.reddit.com/r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit/comments/110mkn3/april_fools_day/
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April Fools Day is a tradition very much embraced at Reddit, as you might expect, and many Subreddits change their theme or subject matter[1] for the day. The r/aprilfools[2] sub try to keep a log of all of these events.
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/aprilfools/
Reddit itself traditionally hosts a sitewide event on that day which has spawned a wealth of Reddit History, and the 2023 April Fool event (though low key in comparison with previous years) started with an innocuous looking but throughly researched post[3] going back through all our past events. More info on historical pranks throughout Reddit can be found here[4] and also here[5].
3: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/126vgfi/why_is_fools_in_april_a_brief_history_of_the/
Some of these events are still talked about now, especially 2015’s ‘The Button’, and a spin-off subreddit that is still active from then is r/AprilKnights[6]. ‘Place’, from 2017, was so popular that it was revived again in 2022[7].
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/AprilKnights/comments/tns9wj/want_to_know_who_we_are/
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/EncyclopaediaOfReddit/comments/110n373/place/
Also in 2022, Reddit themselves made a video history of its April Fools events[8]. Our events are so popular that a short précis of many of them can even be found outside of Reddit[9]. Here’s my own notes on past events.
9: https://medium.com/@arbistarkillerllaveshi/reddit-april-fools-the-social-sandbox-28960a739bc4
This list was originally based on and expanded with links from an original compiled by u/Tvix[58] in r/aprilfools[59]. Huge grateful thanks go out to u/antidense[60] for compiling the yearly roundups of Reddit events linked above and u/kethryvis[61] for filling in the missing piece of the puzzle with details of the 2006 prank.
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/3s4l/in_a_surprise_move_google_yahoo_and_microsoft/
11: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1efuh/reddit_now_doubleplusgood/
15: https://web.archive.org/web/20210401012454/https://redditblog.com/2009/04/02/a-terrible-mistake/
16: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/bkzbt/everyone_is_fucked_we_are_all_admin/
17: https://web.archive.org/web/20120921125833/blog.reddit.com/2011/03/reddit-mold-is-now-live.html
18: https://mashable.com/2012/04/04/reddit-timeline-aftermath/?europe=true
19: https://www.reddit.com/r/timereddits/
20: https://www.reddit.com/r/aprilfools/comments/rmy6x/reddit_2012_april_fools_day_compilation/
22: https://www.reddit.com/r/periwinkle/
23: https://www.reddit.com/r/orangered/
24: https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/1bevhx/lets_make_a_list_of_all_of_the_april_fools/
26: https://www.reddit.com/r/Headdit/
27: https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/21wkim/2014_april_fools_subreddit_pranks_list/
28: https://mashable.com/2015/04/01/reddit-the-button-april-fools/?europe=true
29: https://www.reddit.com/r/thebutton/
30: https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/30zo82/april_fools_2015_subreddit_prank_list/
33: https://www.reddit.com/r/joinrobin/
34: https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/4cvdpp/2016_april_fools_subreddit_pranks_list/
35: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/62mesr/place/dfnw4rc/
36: https://youtu.be/cbYLjbryBIM
37: https://www.reddit.com/r/place/
38: https://www.reddit.com/r/aprilfools/comments/62hg5v/meta_april_fools_day_subreddit_digest_2017/
39: https://redditblog.com/2018/05/22/looking-back-at-r-circleoftrust/
40: https://www.reddit.com/r/CircleOfTrustMeta/
41: https://www.reddit.com/r/CircleOfTrust/
43: https://youtu.be/Oe8jtGc2H_c
44: https://www.reddit.com/r/sequence/
46: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/ft3e3q/imposter/
47: https://www.reddit.com/r/Imposter/
49: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/mi01fg/second/
50: https://www.reddit.com/r/second/
52: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/tyjkzg/rplace_the_recap_part_1/
53: https://www.reddit.com/r/place/
55: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/ttmvqy/april_fools_megathread_2022/
56: https://www.reddit.com/r/schrodingers/comments/127ufzt/comment/jei5fw0/
57: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/127vomt/obligatory_april_1st_announcement/
58: https://www.reddit.com/u/Tvix/
59: https://www.reddit.com/r/aprilfools/
60: https://www.reddit.com/u/antidense/
61: https://www.reddit.com/u/kethryvis/
For 2021 at r/NewToReddit[62], I did a llama llecture/bait-and-switch about calculating Reddit Karma[63]. 2022 saw the start of a new initiative[64] to see if all of our guides and info dumps are actually helpful to everyone, or if we should just go back to the drawing board[65] and start all over again. We still don’t know, so in 2023, we decided to send new Redditors to a resource that explained Reddit better than we ever could[66].
62: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/
63: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/mhh9mu/a_statement_about_karma/
64: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/ttkp85/a_new_initiative/
65: https://www.ljknightart.com/free-cute-kawaii-llama-colouring-page/
For April Fools jokes across the web, there’s a list of Google’s jokes here[67] and a good - if plain - resource for others is: https://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com[68][69].
67: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_April_Fools%27_Day_jokes
68: https://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com
69: https://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com/
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