[META] April Fools' Day Subreddit Digest 2017

https://www.reddit.com/r/aprilfools/comments/62hg5v/meta_april_fools_day_subreddit_digest_2017/

created by antidense on 30/03/2017 at 22:52 UTC

29 upvotes, 38 top-level comments (showing 25)

Post subreddit hijinks here.

Here's the last years (which was hijacked by a now-removed moderator): https://www.reddit.com/r/aprilfools/comments/4cspdu/meta_the_april_fools_reddit_digest_2016/

Comments

Comment by Yenwodyah_ at 31/03/2017 at 18:08 UTC*

16 upvotes, 2 direct replies

/r/TIFU becomes Today I Fudged Up https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/62kxwf/today_i_fudged_up_announcing_a_change_of/

/r/twitchplayspokemon is having a "Helrix Astley vs Domerude Sandstorm" vote. https://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplayspokemon/comments/62maqt/dome_vs_helix_the_winner_must_be_decided/

/r/dataisbeautiful is only accepting "data_irl" for submission titles and "Data." for comments. https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/62nhys/data_irl/

/r/gifs now requires gifs to be pronounced with a hard G. https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/62lopu/rule_change_a_hard_decision/

/r/buildapc has changed its CSS to become /r/the_linus https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/62n9tf/regarding_april_fools_day/

/r/leagueoflegends has become /r/the_merrill https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/62p05w/welcome_to_the_merrill/[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/62pb9t/i_am_the_merrill_ama/[2]

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/62p05w/welcome_to_the_merrill/

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/62pb9t/i_am_the_merrill_ama/

/r/yogscast is moving to Amazon Prime https://www.reddit.com/r/Yogscast/comments/62oz5n/now_exclusively_on_amazon_prime_the_yogscast/

Comment by 2th at 01/04/2017 at 00:39 UTC

12 upvotes, 1 direct replies

/r/Horizon and /r/Zelda have swapped

Comment by [deleted] at 31/03/2017 at 15:26 UTC*

14 upvotes, 0 direct replies

This comment has been overwritten in protest of the Reddit API changes. Wipe your account with: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit

Comment by maxamillisman at 01/04/2017 at 05:34 UTC

7 upvotes, 0 direct replies

/r/asoiaf is now a subreddit dedicated to GRRM's other series of novels Wild Cards

https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/62m8dl/aces_business_its_time_to_throw_a_wild_card_into/

/r/madlads /r/tifu /r/art /r/lifeprotips /r/internetisbeautiful /r/mildlyinfuriating /r/crapydesign /r/shittyaskscience /r/shittyreactiongifs /r/thenettherlands and /r/dankmemes have all joined the Wholesome Network

/r/pcmasterrace is now in comic sans

/r/startrek was bought by CBS to shill CBS All Access https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/62qc47/meta_announcement_rstartrek_now_proudly_owned_by/

/r/daystrominstitute once was dedicated to deep discussion of Star Trek lore, now it is dedicated to Galaxy Quest https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/62pufq/18th_annual_convention_conspiracy_theory/

/r/survivor is now a facebook page https://www.reddit.com/r/survivor/comments/62qk5m/welcome_to_the_official_cbs_survivor_facebook_page/

Comment by hebroslion at 01/04/2017 at 09:01 UTC

10 upvotes, 0 direct replies

r/europe's map on the sidebar is lacking the UK lmao.

Comment by Ijamma1948 at 01/04/2017 at 06:00 UTC

8 upvotes, 1 direct replies

/r/pokemon has been taken over by team skull

/r/FlashTV is leaving for Discord[1], with a Facebook group being considered[2].

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlashTV/comments/62qcv5/a_new_start/

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlashTV/comments/62qcv5/a_new_start/dfoiof8/

/r/criticalrole has an *interesting* new banner and new user flairs. The mods also really appreciate appreciation

/r/KerbalSpaceProgram is now exclusively for memes[3].

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/62qmho/caution_memes_ahead/

/r/nintendo decided not to make their podcast and just record Mushroom Kingdom Radio

/r/roosterteeth is celebrating the company's 14th anniversary[4]. That's it. No joke there.

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/roosterteeth/comments/62qquh/happy_14th_anniversary_rooster_teeth/

/r/smashbros got a cease and desist[5] and is now dedicated to Crash Family, a similar but legally distinct fighting game.

5: https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/62qia3/unfortunate_news_regarding_the_future_of/?utm_content=title&utm_medium=hot&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=smashbros

/r/splatoon is now dedicated to the game's judge cat, Judd.

/r/StarWars is dedicated to and run by the most beloved character in Star Wars history, Jar Jar Binks.

Comment by Zaiush at 01/04/2017 at 04:26 UTC

4 upvotes, 0 direct replies

/r/tulpas became about tuplas, a candy bar in Europe

/r/dota2 becomes /r/ teezy

Comment by Cardboard_Boxer at 01/04/2017 at 05:43 UTC

7 upvotes, 0 direct replies

/r/Kirby is now about comic book legend Jack Kirby[1] rather than the video game character.

1: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/JackKirby

Comment by atomic1fire at 01/04/2017 at 11:57 UTC

10 upvotes, 2 direct replies

/r/the_donald is now /r/the_guacbowl a subreddit dedicated to Jeb Bush. I'm not sure everyone got the memo but the prank was pretty good.

Comment by Ryvaeus at 31/03/2017 at 16:49 UTC

7 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I'm "rebranding" my subreddit, r/PHGamers, to change focus from "Philippine Gamers" to "Pretty Hot Gamers"[1] for April Fools. Go nuts!

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/phgamers/comments/62mct3/_/

Comment by vault-tec_calling at 01/04/2017 at 08:49 UTC

5 upvotes, 0 direct replies

/r/Disneyland and /r/WaltDisneyWorld swapped

Comment by Juxlos at 01/04/2017 at 14:12 UTC

6 upvotes, 0 direct replies

/r/pokemontrades redistributes the means of production

/r/pokemon is taken over by Team Skull

/r/shinypokemon is no longer shiny

/r/SmashBros removes all SSB-related images

/r/AskReddit is now their own republic

Comment by Zaliron at 01/04/2017 at 13:33 UTC

4 upvotes, 0 direct replies

/r/talesfromtechsupport has renamed all the users to Wahoo_Lady

Comment by [deleted] at 31/03/2017 at 23:41 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

/r/StevenUniverse has been taken over by its image mirroring bot Lapis_Mirror.

Comment by NintendoGamer1997 at 01/04/2017 at 01:40 UTC*

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

r/KingdomHearts and r/FinalFantasy have swapped

r/Disney is now r/Dreamworks

r/Windows and r/Windows10 are now Ubuntu themed

There's a fake Episode VIII teaser on r/StarWars. It's an edited version of a trailer for Episode I

The mods of r/PokemonGo are "asleep" and there are a bunch of Magikarp on the banner

The banner of r/MarvelStudios doesn't have any MCU characters or MCU versions of Marvel characters.

r/WiiU is now r/Wii

r/MarioKart will become r/DiddyKongRacing, according to the moderators. /r/mariokart/comments/62qui8/the_future_of_rmariokart/

Comment by Pikawil at 01/04/2017 at 10:49 UTC*

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

The mods on /r/3DS deliberately allowed a blatant troll shitpost to be upvoted to the front page: https://np.reddit.com/r/3DS/comments/62sf3n/im_interested_in_getting_a_ps_vita_what_are_some/[1]
Everyone in /r/Habs is named /u/galaxy91122, and their comments automatically suffixed with "Thank you /u/galaxy91122" https://archive.fo/g1JcV[2]
/r/KamenRider changed their banner to the maligned Masked Rider. https://archive.fo/RBKfa[3]
/r/kemonofriends, about a furry series, changed some of the flairs to actual animal photographs, with the pretense that the head mod there is a Cerulean (the antagonists of the series) who ate sand stars (the substance in the series that turns animals into furries): https://archive.fo/koO9H[4]
One of the mods on /r/lovelive wrote a pretty believable stepping-down post: https://np.reddit.com/r/LoveLive/comments/62vmc3/farewell_friends/[5] and then had to admit his prank was a bit too effective: https://np.reddit.com/r/LoveLive/comments/62xq8a/when_an_april_fools_joke_hits_too_hard_o_%CA%96_o_a/[6]
/r/linuxmint is now themed after Arch Linux (/r/archlinux did nothing). https://archive.fo/9w0aM[7]
/r/schoolidolfestival is now "CRABLAND" https://archive.fo/RLZvT[8] http://tinyimg.io/i/uPVTtfI.png[9]
/r/sonicthehedgehog redirects to the reactivated-for-a-day /r/sonic; the joke being that the latter was deactivated because the former is the bigger Sonic sub. Archive cap (note the 4-month post gap and general reactions): https://archive.fo/Hm8R3[10]
/r/SSBPM copied /r/SSBM's CSS.
/r/StardustCrusaders is now about Love Live. https://archive.fo/h59GI[11] https://archive.fo/VjNex[12]
/r/starlightstage put glasses on all the flairs (that didn't wear glasses already) and (half of) the banner. Mod post: http://tinyimg.io/i/CtpPT2e.png[13]
/r/swordartonlnie has a stickied mod shitpost: https://np.reddit.com/r/swordartonline/comments/62qr48/just_posting_some_sword_art_online/[14]
/r/TheaterDays has exclusive flairs for the day: https://archive.fo/MD35b[15] This follows up this post there: https://np.reddit.com/r/TheaterDays/comments/5zgiwk/upvote_this_to_show_we_want_mochipuppet_as_a_flair/[16]
/r/touhou has a Kancolle banner. https://archive.fo/0hwSa[17]
/r/zootopia rethemed after Kubo and the Two Strings. https://archive.fo/J0n5X[18]