April 1st

April Fool's Day 2020 is regarded by many to be one of the most stress-inducing days in server history, mostly resulting in the sheer number of un-coordinated pranks topped off with a genuine raid. It is unknown how April Fool's Day 2021 will go.
== April 1st 2020 ==
==== Pre-Nuke ====
During the beginning of the day, part of the staff team jokingly changed their profiles to characters or objects of their choosing.
*Hidden: Plastic Wrap
*Trip: Flippy
*CStatic: Gene
*Tahu: Clay (Nexo Knights)
Two custom roles were created on this day but were soon deleted after the day was over. These being "#1 Nexo Knights Fan" and "Evil Genius". 
As part of Dawf, Ember and Hidden's prank, JD was given access to Cloud Kingdom and a role that made him look like he was owner again. The server name and icon was also changed to the original r/Ninjago Discord.
==== The Nuke ====
As part of a long-running joke, Ember restricted access to all chats leaving only a new "#after-the-blackout" and a voice channel (with the Fold song After the Blackout playing on repeat). While this was initially met with some enjoyment, most of the staff went offline at this point. This would result in most of the problems that plagued the server that day.
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Sometime later, Hidden unveiled her own "!annoy" command, which varyingly spammed messages and pinged users. Unfortunately, the command also included an "@everyone" feature, which caused many users to leave the server. 
When the admins returned to see the chaos, most of the pranks were removed again.
==== Return to Normality ====
After people began to ease back into reality, the server returned to its original state, with #general and all the chats available for use.
However, a user named "Unagami" joined the server whilst a conversation was happening, posting a shock image and getting Machu banned in the process. This was later revealed to be Tahu, who was intending to frame Machu as revenge for Machu's raids.
On a much lighter note, Brad Tudabone joined the server but was immediately kicked for being a baby.
==== Aftermath ====
Although the day was remembered mostly for the chaos and lack of oversight, its biggest impact was the subsequent permanent banning of Tahu, one of the servers most active and "appreciated" members.
=== Trivia ===
* Angry looked at the server that day and was upset to see that his Skybound essays were possibly deleted.
* Despite all the chaos, DFoxy was still muted for a minute for spam. Lol.
* Bot commands were allowed in #after-the-blackout, which lead to a lot of people using MEE6's urban dictionary feature, not just the !annoy command.
*Hidden has become very afraid of using @everyone or @here pings in Discord overall due to this event.
== April 1st 2021 ==
In the leadup to April 1st 2021, it was decided to have the staff plan out their pranks together so as to reduce the chaos that had occurred the previous year. 
==== Fake Cloud Kingdom ====
Discussions in #cloud-kingdom lead to a few ideas, including rebranding the server as "Realms of Chima". It was eventually agreed that "leaking" a fake admin chat, where the staff would be incompetent, hateful buffoons openly (for once) was the best option. The fake chat, named #cloud-kingdom:cloud:, was created on the 3rd of March 2021 with the explanation that Ember had accidentally deleted the old cloud kingdom chat (as he had done with #announcements). 
== April 1st 2022 ==
2022's April Fool's day was toned down compared to the previous two years: all of the Legacy Members had their names swapped, Hidden transformed into Tin Foil, an avowed conspiracy theorist, and a set of fake leaks about the upcoming season of Ninjago were posted, which convinced a handful of members that they were genuine.
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