What is April Fools' Day?
April Fools' is a miserable time in which nobody can trust their senses and people find a particular joy in lying through their teeth.
People create pages as April Fools' Day jokes.
Many of these pages end up being deleted. Many do not.
This page organizes and celebrates the large amount of valuable work that survives this day.
Adding to this page:
As this page was created a decade after the first recorded April Fools Day jokes on the wiki, some pages may be missing. This page was originally created by LORDXVNV for navigational purposes and historical preservation, who used a methodology of manually reading through pages created within 36 hours of a given April 1st, using context clues such as author post, content, or first-revision comment to determine if they were created for April Fools.
If you are the author of a missing page, you may add them, unless they were written for a contest that has its own hub, which as of April 2022 are the Crack Fiction and Creck Fiction 2 contests. This is to reduce clutter. Please wait until April 3 before linking your pranks to make sure they've survived.
Do not add other peoples' pages unless they state it was written for April Fools. Conversely, if you were the author of a page on this list and it was not intended for April Fools, please feel free to remove it.
2023:
Staff-Run
For 2023, the wiki was taken over by OpusConfidant, an affectionate parody of the competitive Pokemon battling community Smogon.
OpusConfidant April 1st 2023 Spotlight
OpusConfidant Orientation
Resistile Decommissioning Attempt - Thread
OpusConfidant Wiki - SCP-4645 - Threatini
SCPs
ROUNDERHOUSE's Bone Proposal
SCP-7472
SCP-VS-J
Tales and Other
Rate My Director
Crom for Pleasure Devices
Another Reason Why The Impasse Sucks
The Flesh That Raves
Aprillipaiva
Funny Clown Show, Episode 37
2022:
Staff-Run
For 2022, the SCP Wiki was taken over by the Fishing Team.
Fishing Team Main
How To Fish: An Official Guide
News for April, 2022
Fish Theme
Recap, April 1st, 2022
SCPs:
SCP-6247 — I, Fish Council
SCP-6749 — Historical Refishionism
SCP-MORE-GUN-J — Guns Pointed At The Balls Of God
SCP-6269-J — The Multiversal Fishing Machine
SCP-6969-J — The End of Sex 6.9: You Can (Not) Reproduce
Plauge's Proposal — The Great Seal
SCP-005 Proposal Hub
SCP-173, but every sentence is a crosslink
Tales and Other:
The Bathrooms Wiki
A Wandsman in a Vegas Cathouse
TFW SCP :(
Balls to the Wall
WHAT THE FU-
The Final Deletion
I, Director Schwarz of the Shark Punching Center
I, a polar bear covering my nose in a snowstorm
I, Am Late
I, Want You All To Stop
Artwork
Wilson's Wildlife Adoption Gallery
El SEXOOO
2021:
Staff-Run
For April Fools' 2021, Researcher James, age six, took over the Wiki.
Crayon Theme
Also there was a crack fiction contest. Much more fun content is within.
Creck Fection Contest 2 (TWO DAY EXTRAVAGANZA!)
SCPs:
SCP-5486 — Conjunction Immemorial
Other:
I, Hub
Inadvertent Neolinguistics
A containment proposal
Iteration G
YOSSISTYLE CSS THEME
Honorable mention:
2020:
Staff-Run
April Fools 2020 was the takeover by Super Cool Plants!
Plant Theme
SCPs
SCP-CC BY-SA 3.0-CO — CC-Complant
SCP-600-CO — A Super Cool Friend Watched My Plant
Other
Sigma-9 Theme
This page doesn't exist yet!
Site-81 Community Cookbook
The Totally Legit SCP-6000 Entry Contest!
2019:
SCPs:
Another djkaktus Proposal — "RUMBLY IN ITS TUMBLY"
Since 2019, SCP-4000 has been edited on April 1st to link to this alternate version also written by PeppersGhost.
Other:
2019 saw the introduction of the Cack Hub, which contains a large amount of humorous material pertinent to April Fools Day.
Cack Hub
Bearitage Collection
Dread & Circuses Jumps The Shark
Words of Wisdom from the Containment Chamber of SCP-046-ARC, better known as Richard "Big Dick" Chappell
Why Clef Hates Cupcakes
In The End, We All Went Out in a Blaze
2018:
SCPs:
SCP-V1L3-J — A VILE Machine
Other:
The Warrior And The... Clown?
SPC-2935
2017:
Tales
Le Fou d'Avril
The Conceptual Theology of Physical Existence
Fools of Us All
UIU File: 1997-007
SCP-1425-765
2016:
Staff run:
2016 had the first Crack Fiction Contest, which produced a large amount of hilarious entries, all of which are listed in that hub and therefore not repeated here.
Crack Fiction Contest (ONE DAY ONLY!)
Tales
Not a contest entry, but a crackfic about gods anyways
2014:
Staff Run:
April Fools 2014 had a site takeover by Super Cute Pets!
Pet Theme
SCPs:
SCP-682-CU — Cutest Ickle Lizard
SCP-006-CU-EX — Cuddly Cwawies
SCP-2600-CU — The Cutest Little Thing
Other:
The Slow Asphyxiation Of Undiluted Ardor
Cool War 2: Ruiz From Your Grave
2013:
Staff Run
For 2013, several pages were edited to be about Dog Facts.
No hub for these was made.
(With thanks to Mann.)
2012:
Staff Run:
In 2012, SCP-423 aka Fred423 breached containment and ran amuck through multiple other pages.
Containment was achieved by erasing all record of this. Do not PM Fred. You will not get a response.
Tales:
The Completely Canonical Story of James, Age 8
Deranged Ditties
The Swift Rise And Fall Of Technical Researcher David Rosen
2011:
Tales
2010:
SCPs
SCP-777-J — Darkblade