How Jokes Are Featured and Rated on April Fools' Day On The Web

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April Fools' Day On The Web surfaces 2026 jokes through three separate paths: a hand-picked "Featured jokes of 2026" section, a "Top 20 highest rated jokes of 2026" ranking, and a full "All 2026 jokes" list. Each joke entry shows a numeric score next to it, and a "Surprise me" button opens a random joke. Use the Featured section if you want a short, curated set; use the Top 20 if you want the crowd's favorites; use the full list if you want to browse everything submitted.

The three ways jokes are surfaced

Featured jokes of 2026

The site describes these as "hand-picked highlights — the pranks worth remembering." This is an editorial selection, not a ranking. The featured set shown on the page includes:

Source Joke Score shown
@PizzaHutCanada on X Canadian locations selling limited-time "Hot Dog Stuffed Crust Pizza" 8
minecraft.wiki Added an AI chatbot "but it's not what it seems" 10
formidable.care "HealthCAPTCHA" — the world's first physical CAPTCHA 9
_xarth on Twitch Twitch page taken back in time to 2011 11
@IGN on YouTube PlayStation's "Project Playmo" AI-powered DualSense controller that plays games for you 13
traeger.com Grilling company reveals MEAT AI-powered glasses that help you cook meat 2
weather.com "Retrocast" — 90s-style broadcast graphics with live weather data 12
xkcd.com New reading modes (lighter, dark, space opera, hacker, screensaver, and more) 10

Because Featured is curated, a low score doesn't remove a joke from it — the Traeger entry sits at 2 and is still featured. Treat Featured as "editors thought this was interesting," not "audience loved this."

Top 20 highest rated jokes of 2026

This list ranks by score. The visible top entries:

  1. pc.net — "Super Ultrabox 2600" — 39
  2. undertaleforfree.com — "Undertale For Free," actually a remake of CrazyBus — 34
  3. bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net — "Bulbapedia is now Pokopedia" — 24
  4. soldierx.com — Mojave Phone Booth running an AI agent on a payphone — 15
  5. furaffinity.net — "The mascots aren't doing well this year..." — 14
  6. @IGN on YouTube — "Project Playmo" — 13 (submitted by FB3 Network)
  7. weather.com — "Retrocast" — 12

The spread is wide: the top entry has roughly triple the score of the sixth. If you only have time for a few, the Top 20 is the efficient starting point.

All 2026 jokes and the archive

The full list holds every 2026 submission, and "The archive" covers every prank back to 2004. The site's stated method is that it screenshots each joke when submitted, "so the web's best fooling lives on forever" — useful because April Fools' pages are typically taken down after April 1.

What the scores mean in practice

Scores appear as plain numbers beside each entry, and the Top 20 is ordered by them. The page does not explain the scoring formula, who can rate, or whether scores update over time, so treat them as a relative popularity signal rather than a precise measure. Two practical consequences:

  • Compare within a year, not across years. A 39 in 2026 tells you it led that year's field; it doesn't tell you how it compares to a 2004 prank.
  • Check the submission timestamp. Top entries were submitted across April 1 (e.g., pc.net at 04:17, furaffinity.net at 18:40), so early scores may still be accumulating when you look.

Choosing where to start

  • Want a quick, varied tour: start with Featured — eight entries across food, gaming, weather, and webcomics.
  • Want the most-liked: start with the Top 20, beginning at pc.net's Super Ultrabox 2600.
  • Want something unexpected: use "Surprise me" to pull a random joke from the collection.
  • Want a specific company or site: go to "All 2026 jokes" and scan, or use the archive for pre-2026 pranks.
  • Want to contribute: the page offers "Submit a 2026 joke," and submissions are what populate the Featured and Top 20 sections.

One caveat when following links: the site preserves jokes as screenshots, so the original live page may already be gone or altered. The screenshot is the reliable record.