What Kinds of April Fools' Jokes Are Listed on April Fools' Day On The Web?

April Fools' Day On The Web collects pranks from company websites, social media accounts, community wikis, and video channels, and it covers both major brands and small fan-run sites. Each entry pairs the source with a short description and a screenshot, so you can see what the joke actually looked like even after the page is taken down. The 2026 collection shows the range clearly: a pizza chain's fake menu item sits alongside a wiki's fake AI feature and a Twitch channel's retro redesign.

The main categories of jokes in the collection

The site groups its 2026 entries into featured highlights, a top-20 rated list, a full list for the year, and an archive going back to 2004. Across those lists, the jokes fall into a few recognizable types.

Brand product spoofs

Companies announce fake products, often with a straight-faced product page. Examples from the 2026 featured list:

• Pizza Hut Canada (@PizzaHutCanada on X) promoted limited-time "Hot Dog Stuffed Crust Pizza" at Canadian locations.
• Traeger, a grilling company, revealed "MEAT" AI-powered glasses — a play on Meta — that help you cook meat.
• PlayStation, via @IGN on YouTube, showed "Project Playmo," an AI-powered DualSense controller that plays games for you.

Fake features and site redesigns

Some pranks change how an existing site works or looks rather than announcing a product.

• minecraft.wiki added an AI chatbot that "isn't what it seems."
• xkcd.com added reading modes — lighter mode, dark mode, space opera mode, hacker mode, screensaver mode — selectable from a menu below the comic.
• weather.com introduced "Retrocast," using 90s-style broadcast graphics with live weather data.
• _xarth on Twitch took the channel page back to a 2011 design.

Physical-world gags and interactive stunts

A few entries blur the line between web joke and real-world stunt.

• formidable.care presented "HealthCAPTCHA," billed as the world's first physical CAPTCHA — your AI assistant can pass any CAPTCHA but "can't do a squat."
• soldierx.com ran an AI agent on a Mojave Phone Booth payphone.

Rebrands and community in-jokes

Smaller and community-run sites lean on identity jokes their own audiences will recognize.

• Bulbapedia renamed itself "Pokopedia."
• furaffinity.net ran a joke about its mascots "not doing well this year."
• undertaleforfree.com claimed Undertale For Free had released — actually a remake of CrazyBus.
• pc.net introduced the "Super Ultrabox 2600."

What each listing includes

Every entry follows the same format, which is what makes the collection usable as a record:

The screenshots matter because, as the site notes, pranks "vanish" after April 1st — the capture is often the only remaining evidence of what a brand actually published.

Who appears: big brands and small sites side by side

The 2026 top-20 list mixes household names with niche community sites. High-rated entries include pc.net (39), undertaleforfree.com (34), Bulbapedia (24), soldierx.com (15), and furaffinity.net (14), with @IGN on YouTube's PlayStation prank at 13. The featured section adds Pizza Hut Canada, minecraft.wiki, formidable.care, Twitch, Traeger, weather.com, and xkcd. If you want to see how a particular type of brand handles the holiday — a retailer, a wiki, a streamer — browsing the full-year list is the fastest way to compare.

How to use the collection

• Browse this year for the current April Fools' list, or open the archive for anything back to 2004.
• Use Hall of Fame for standout pranks and Surprise me to jump to a random entry.
• Check the top-20 rated list if you want the community's favorites rather than a chronological feed.
• If you find a 2026 joke that's missing, the site accepts submissions, and it screenshots each one when submitted so the record persists.