April Fools' Day 2016
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April 1, 2016 was an April Fools' Day that fell on a Friday. In the Pokémon fandom, some websites pulled hoaxes on gullible fans.
Hoaxes
Fansites
- Bulbagarden's Fun and Games forum was renamed the Woobat Cave, and there was an extra Random Messages thread.
- On Reddit, subreddits /r/pokemon and /r/CFB switched themes for the day turning /r/pokemon into a sub on College Football and /r/CFB into a Pokémon themed sub.
- On Pokémon Showdown, created by Smogon a Digimon theme was adopted for the battle simulator. Similar to previous years, all sprites and models were replaced with various fan-drawn sprites, with the exception of some sprites that were introduced in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.
- Several of these sprites seemed to be mutilated versions of the actual sprites, but other were arbitrary drawings created largely as a joke (such as Xerneas's sprite looking like a tic-tac-toe board).
- Changes were also made in the text displayed to the user. A few of many examples follow.
- When the move Stealth Rock was used, the flavor text "Mischievous Pebbles" or "Discrete Bricks" was shown.
- When the move Taunt was used, the text displayed was "*Pokemon name* said "Yo momma so stupid, she makes her special attack go down when she uses Nasty Plot!"
- When the move Earthquake was used, the browser window would shake and the text displayed was "*Pokemon name* used Fissure! Just kidding, it was Earthquake!"
- When the move Substitute was used, a wooden billboard with "Pay no attention to what is behind this board" written on it would appear instead of the Substitute Doll
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