Since many of you seem to be confused: in my time zone, it is April 1st. This is known as April Fool’s Day in many countries around the world. As a number of you seem to find this a strange and new concept, here you go:
April Fools’ Day is celebrated in many countries on April 1 every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools’ Day, April 1 is not a national holiday, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other.
The earliest recorded association between April 1 and foolishness is an ambiguous reference in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1392). Many writers suggest that the restoration of January 1 by Pope Gregory XIII as New Year’s Day of the Gregorian Calendar in the 16th century was responsible for the creation of the holiday, sometimes questioned for earlier references.
…All that is to say, yes, if the date somehow didn’t already tip you off, the floating creepypasta, numbers station playlist, and steady stream of parodypasta is our way of celebrating April Fool’s Day. Ex-admin Predhead helped me out with deciding what to do, so he gets a portion of the credit (or blame?) as well!
For those of you having heart attacks all over the comments, it’s okay. The floating stuff and autoplay will be gone once the day is over.
For the time being, if you really just cannot handle even one day of this, scroll all the way down and you’ll find the audio player. You can stop the numbers stations there (or listen to more of them if you find them appealing). The floatypasta effect ends after 20 seconds on any page, so you don’t have to wait too long for Jeff and his posse to leave you alone and let you read some pasta.
If you haven’t, yet, I suggest that you pay Crappypasta a visit as well. It’s looking particularly special today too, though it might take a moment to sneak up on you.
I hope that calms the anxieties of all of you either aren’t familiar with the holiday or just were unable to put two and two together, and for the rest of you – Happy April Fool’s Day!
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Nooo, why did I miss this? The screenshot with Jeff the killer… Smile dog… Squidward in the red mist… Even Slendy, who I rarely refer to as less than his full name out of respect (but April fools is a special occasion). All my favorite creepypasta ghoulies just waiting to have a scare orgy, and I missed it. I missed the fucking piss-your-pants party… And I can’t even remember what I did on April fools now. Thanks anyway for the screenshot, Derpbutt, ignore the haters — I’ll definitely be sure to be here next year on the look out for more freaky shenanigans. :p
By the way, is there any way for those of us who missed out to see what the page was like?
Just a screenshot:
http://s22568.p321.sites.pressdns.com/graphics/afd.png
It also had numbers stations from The Conet Project playing.
the one day im not on the site does something special and by what i heard it was funny
Don’t be a whiny little bitch George, this is Derp’s site and he’s allowed to do whatever he wants on it. And if he wants to pull an April Fool’s joke, then he can pull an April Fool’s joke damn it. If you’re so desperate that you’ll throw a hissy fit over something like this then you need to go sit in a corner and think about your life and its priorities.
On a side note, you’re awesome Derp ^3^ Nothing wrong with a little humor on a scary story site ^_^
I’m sort of glad I wasn’t on here on April fools day, not because I think it was a bad idea, but because it would have worked a little too well on me… I can see myself shitting bricks every time I see a creepy picture float across my screen… O_O But, I’ll be sure to be here next year, no matter how many walls I’m able to build by the end of the day :D
Did you just say WALLS?
HAHAHAHAHAHA HOLY SHIT
This is why I love these sites
aaaaahahahahahaha everything went better than exception
Personally, I think the site is amazing today. My first pasta was served (although recieving a large number of negative reviews… Sigh, some people can’t take a joke I guess… Probably those that complain it takes too long for their stories to be seen to…) and seeing Jeff float across my screen so often inspired me to create another pasta, a little more serious this time. Just waiting on submissions to open now! :D
what’s up with all the floating pictures and music? i can’t even read the page. is there a way to turn it off.
i will say- the music is pretty cool.
Read the post you’re replying to for help/answers.
Oh my god I’m trying to watch a horror movie and read this not a good idea its making me laugh
Fucking hate this. Advising my friends to stay away from this stupid site in the future if it pulls shit like this. Obviously doesn’t want readers.
Okay, George, we get it. You can stop throwing your fit now.
I’ll admit it did scare the crap out of me lol (wasn’t expecting it) …but it’s kinda cute and eerie in a way.
This was just really stupid. Made the site virtually unusable.
I guess I don’t understand why it’s so serious? It’s for one day. If you are incapable of finding humour in it (and really can’t deal with 20 seconds and pausable music without deeming it “unusable”), feel free to take the day off and allow people who enjoy and even look forward to seeing what various sites do for April Fool’s Day to laugh about it. Everything will be here in normal working order tomorrow. It’s not the end of the world and really not worth taking time to whine about.
General warning for anyone else tempted to bellyache about something so insignificant:
Crying about it and downvoting anyone else who makes approving comments won’t make me change it back any faster. It will just make me pity what it must be like to be you and not be able to enjoy little things like this (or, at the very least, be so incredibly selfish that you can’t deal with slight annoyances for one. whole. day. on a famous international holiday dedicated to silly jokes) – end of story.
I already limit parodypastas to one day per year, let the people who enjoy this kind of thing have their ONE DAY PER YEAR. Not every single day needs to cater to people who cannot deal with jokes, damn.
*sigh* I’m sure this post will be flooded with negative comments, so I want to apologize on their behalf, Derp. People really need to lighten up. I found it wonderfully bad taste. ^_^ OOh, is that counting in German I hear? :D
Well, so far it’s just the one guy leaving multiple comments and downvoting people. Apparently this really made him mad, but not quite mad enough to use a proxy before attempting to sockpuppet in the comments. I just wanted to take advantage of his first comment to say my piece before anyone else decided to roll on in and cry about how they can’t deal with jokes even one day out of the year and they are clearly the most special of snowflakes so everyone must do as they say =P
And yes, it’s a playlist of numbers stations hosted by The Conet Project: http://archive.org/details/ird059
Predhead finds numbers stations pretty terrifying, so I couldn’t resist having them autoplay today.
Are you the creator Derpbutt? or are you just a Pasta submitter?
I’m sorry, what?
Beautiful. Thank you Derpbutt for expressing your holiday spirit! The Crappypasta one is hilarious. XD
If you don’t mind me asking, what is the crappypasta site doing?
The one from here of course. Just go to top of the page and click the first link below the title named Crappypasta. If you keep your mouse still for a few moments, some interesting things will appear. :3