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Basically use this thread to post what stuff some sites have done for April Fools in 2017.

IGN's April Fools joke this year is a fake trailer for a GTA TV series on AMC "from the creators of Breaking Bad" and starring Trevor's actual voice actor in the lead role.

Not gonna lie, I actually wish this joke was real.

Ross Decided To Upload what seems to be an actual continuation of Freeman's Mind

Nintendo announced a new 8 bit, NES styled Fire Emblem for switch and 3ds set in Feudal Japan

WTF no I actually want this to be real

Google's new virtual assistant, Google Gnome

RedLetterMedia reviews a movie that doesn't exist, using footage of the film that they created, based on a joke from one of their other shows.

Newgrounds is now solar powered. Make sure to point your monitor toward the sun.

RoahmMythril continues his April Fools tradition of publishing a compilation of his own mistakes in the past year.

DeviantArt is now dedicated to this lovely thing.

George Takei announced he was running for office. https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/326828-april-fools-george-takei-jokes-hes-running-for-congress%3Famp

Can't wait

Grandayy announced that he would quit making meme videos and make nature videos. IHE did a one hour video of how he's quitting.

4chan is merging boards

Overkill announces a new character for Payday 2, Ethan from h3h3

Warthunder releases a gamemode featuring modern era tanks and attack helicopters

Tumblr has some weird horse minigame you can play by clicking on the horse icon at the bottom left

I can't link it here but ZONE and another artist made the fake announcement that they have a show on Netflix called "ZONE Unmasked."

Also here's a very interesting one that was both an April Fools joke yet also not a joke. Video game dev Arika made the sudden announcement of a new fighting game using characters from Street Fighter EX. The joke was that it seemed it was an announcement for Street Fighter EX 4, but in reality the game in question is actually a non-Street Fighter game that just happens to use characters Arika made for that series because they've worked out the rights issues with Capcom.

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Here's Game Grumps April Fools joke:

Derpibooru looks like deviantart

Here's one from Stylosa of Unit Lost which details fake patch notes for Overwatch's PTR servers which is mostly taking the piss out of certain Overwatch players:

Also Blizzard has done an April Fools joke for Overwatch where playing Reinhardt and talking in "all" chat changes the text to something Reinhardt might say. Here's a video from Oh Nickel showing it:

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Official Pokemon social media pages posted a joke suggesting that they're about to sell a fake brand of designer boxer briefs called "MaChamps"

Here's the Twitter link

Can't forget Adam's new top 10 list

Also TheRunawayGuys uploaded a video entirely in slo-mo

The Smogon forums for Pokemon did this

/r/The_Donald became /r/The_Guacbowl, a subreddit dedicated to all things !Jeb! Bush.

Pokemon: Bulbapedia's forums and r/pokemon got taken over by Team Skull.

BlazBlue: The official (Japanese) site had changed to promote an idol game where the male charatcers cross dress, (of note is Arakune looking like Ruby Rose). And Shoryukin published an article "confirming" a Central Fiction EXTEND.

DYKG: Pepsiman episode.

Yu-Gi-Oh: YGOriginisation, like Shoryukin had their own 'news' readied for the holiday. A list for a fake set. The actual card game has revealed a card based on the holiday (Number 41: Baguska)

Steven Universe: The sub is now a Lapiz Lazuli sub

Reddit: Besides r/place. r/dataisbeautiful has made all comments "Data." and all post titles "Data_irl"

Vinesauce Streamer Rev has been shitposting Top 5 Lists

This one stuck, hardly anyone got me to even crack a smile

The longest entry gave me a giggle

RLM did a well put together one

Ralph the movie maker changed his name to Ralph the lets player and did a sarcastic parody of LP channels. I hate everything did the same thing but it wasn't as funny in my opinion

Does of Buckly was pretty funny

Draw with Jazza did this

This ones ok

This just uploaded while I was typing this and its my favorite one

But over all most of the videos and pranks were pretty not funny, flat out stupid and obnoxious (game grumps, google), or something that could be a real interesting idea like the IGN one and the freemans mind episode but are just obnoxious because they are April fools jokes and not real.

This one might be my favorite: Projared reviewing Madden 17 as if it was an RPG.

A Dose of Buckley's video:

I Hate Everything's video:

So Adult Swim/Toonami swapped out the new Dragon Ball Super episode with Rick & Morty season 3 premier,

Almost as good as the year they brought Toonami back as a joke.

SiIvaGunner Posted this

[The Muslim Ban is an April Fools joke, Amirite?]

This account passes the Epyc Alt Test with a 5/5 score

1) Single-minded and unfunny Trump trolling
2) Classic EW grammar and post structure.
3) Brand New Member Refers to "Mods" in Stock Speculation Comment Thread
4) Negative 80% Karma or lower (Currently negative 82%)
5) Reveals true form and calls everyone else an Epyc alt

Bonus Point Award: Creates troll account on April Fools Day for the lulz, but no lulz are had.

Nyanners announced her channel was now all about Minecraft song parodies:

The developers of the game Distance seem to be taking inspiration from Breath of the Wild for their new 'update'.

Reporting a little late, but Joel from Vinesauce did a two hour stream in Swedish: