April Fools' Day 2008
From Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia.
April 1, 2008 was an April Fool's Day that fell on a Tuesday.
Hoaxes
- Bulbagarden forums changed the default font on some of the forum skins to Wingdings.
- Bulbapedia deleted its User: namespace.
- Game Freak announced it was moving to the Arctic to save the elusive snow Pikachu together with a "new" Nintendo DS game, Seasan.
- Bulbanews ran a story based on Game Freak's hoax.
- Feminist Gamers ran a story about police busting an illegal Pokémon fighting ring.
- deviantART changed the avatar of all of its users to an animated Mudkip sprite.
- PokéCommunity Forums changed every user's status to moderator.
- PKMN.NET announced a new administrator. The administrator would be the person viewing the announcement.
- The Pokemon Times changed their theme for the episode to Digimon.
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Feminist Gamers -
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