aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com

April Fools' Day On The Web (aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com) is a running record of internet pranks, organized by year and going back to 2004. Each joke is captured as a screenshot when it's submitted, so entries survive after the original page is taken down. You can browse the current year's jokes, jump into the historical archive, or open a single screenshot to see exactly what a company or creator published on April 1.

What the site collects

The site's stated purpose is to preserve pranks that "vanish" after April 1. Its scope is broad: jokes from company websites, social media accounts, and individual creators. For 2026, the page shows several layers of organization:

• Featured jokes — a hand-picked set of highlights for the year
• Top 20 highest rated jokes — ranked by a score shown next to each entry
• All 2026 jokes — the full list for the year
• The archive — earlier years, back to 2004

Each entry pairs a short description with a screenshot link. For example, the 2026 featured list includes Pizza Hut Canada's "Hot Dog Stuffed Crust Pizza" post on X, the Minecraft Wiki's fake AI chatbot, and xkcd's set of alternate reading modes. The top-20 list adds submission timestamps and scores, such as pc.net's "Super Ultrabox 2600" at 39 and bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net's rename to "Pokopedia" at 24.

How to find a prank from a specific year

1. Open aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com.
2. Choose the current year's list if you want this year's jokes, or select The archive to move to earlier years.
3. Pick the year you want. The archive is organized by year going back to 2004.
4. Scan the entries for the site or creator you're looking for, then open its screenshot link to see the original joke.

The expected result is a screenshot of the prank as it appeared, not a live page — which matters because most of these jokes are removed shortly after April 1.

What the screenshots are for

The screenshot is the core of the archive. Because pranks are usually temporary, a link to the original URL would break within days. Capturing the page at submission time turns a one-day joke into something you can still check months or years later. That makes the site useful for:

• Verifying what a company actually published on a given April 1
• Comparing how a brand's pranks changed over the years
• Finding examples of a specific prank format, such as fake product launches or site redesigns

Limits to keep in mind

• Coverage depends on submissions. The site asks users to submit jokes, so the archive reflects what was reported, not every prank that happened. A missing entry doesn't mean the prank didn't exist.
• Ratings are community scores. The top-20 ranking reflects votes on the site, not an objective measure of quality.
• Screenshots, not archives. You see the captured image, so interactive elements of the original joke won't work.
• The current year's page changes. Featured picks and rankings for 2026 reflect what had been submitted and voted on at the time you view it.

If you want to check whether a specific company pulled an April Fools' prank in a given year, start with the archive for that year and search the entry list by site name. If it isn't there, the prank may simply not have been submitted.

To get your April Fools' joke listed on April Fools' Day On The Web, use the “Submit a 2026 joke” entry point on the site. The site screenshots each joke when it is submitted so the prank is preserved after it disappears, and submitted jokes can appear in the yearly listings and ratings. You will need the joke's source and details ready before you submit.

What the site does with your submission

April Fools' Day On The Web describes itself as a complete list of April Fools' Day jokes from websites and social media, plus every prank back to 2004. Its stated approach is to screenshot each joke when it is submitted, “so the web's best fooling lives on forever.”

That tells you two things as a submitter:

• Timing matters. The screenshot is taken around submission, so submit while the joke is still live and visible. A prank that has already been taken down may not be captured.
• Your submission feeds the public listings. The site organizes jokes into sections such as “Featured jokes of 2026,” “Top 20 highest rated jokes of 2026,” “All 2026 jokes,” and “The archive.” A submitted joke can appear in the yearly listings and ratings.

Before you submit

Gather the details that identify the joke and let someone verify it:

• The source — the site, account, or page where the joke appears (for example, a company site, an X account, a YouTube channel, or a wiki).
• What the joke is — a short description of the prank, such as a fake product, a renamed site, or a temporary redesign.
• Where it can be seen — the specific URL or post so the joke can be found and screenshotted.

The 2026 examples on the site show the level of detail that gets recorded: a pizza chain selling a limited-time “Hot Dog Stuffed Crust Pizza,” a wiki adding an AI chatbot “but it's not what it seems,” a grilling company revealing “MEAT” AI glasses, and a weather site launching a “Retrocast” with 90s-style graphics. Each entry pairs the source with a one-line description and a screenshot link.

Step by step

1. Open aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com and find the “Submit a 2026 joke” entry point on the page.
2. Enter the joke's source and details — the site or account, a short description of the prank, and the link where it can be seen.
3. Submit while the joke is live. The site captures a screenshot at submission, so a live page gives the best chance of a clean capture.
4. Check back on the listings. Look under “All 2026 jokes” for your entry, and watch “Featured jokes of 2026” and the “Top 20 highest rated jokes of 2026” if the joke gains attention.

How to check it worked

• Search the “All 2026 jokes” section for your source or description.
• Confirm a screenshot was captured alongside your entry — that is the site's core promise for every submission.
• If the joke is well received, it may surface in the Featured picks or the Top 20 highest rated list. In the 2026 top 20, entries carry a submission date and time plus a rating count, so you can see how other jokes are ranked.

Common snags

• Submitting after the joke is gone. Since the site screenshots at submission, a prank that has already been removed may be hard to preserve. Submit early on April 1, or as soon as the joke goes live.
• Vague source details. A description without a specific site, account, or link makes the joke hard to find and capture. Include the exact place it appears.
• Expecting instant featuring. Being listed in “All 2026 jokes” is the baseline; “Featured” is described as hand-picked highlights, and the Top 20 is rating-based, so neither is guaranteed by submitting.

Related questions this site answers

• What April Fools' Day On The Web is and what it covers.
• How the archive back to 2004 works.
• How jokes are featured and rated on the site.

April Fools' Day On The Web (aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com) is a curated archive of April Fools' Day jokes and pranks published by websites and social media accounts, covering 2026 back to 2004. It exists because most pranks are taken down shortly after April 1st — the site screenshots each submitted joke so the original page doesn't have to stay live for the joke to be remembered. It's useful if you want to browse this year's pranks, look up a specific company's past jokes, or check what the internet did for April Fools' in a given year.

What the site offers

The homepage is organized into four sections, each serving a different browsing need:

There's also a "Surprise me" option (labeled with a die icon) for random discovery, and a submission form for adding a 2026 joke.

How the archive works

The core mechanism is screenshot preservation. When someone submits a prank, the site captures a screenshot at that moment. This matters because April Fools' pages are typically temporary — a company swaps its homepage for a day, then restores it. Without a capture, the joke effectively disappears from the web.

Each entry in the featured and top-rated lists follows the same pattern: the source (a website or social account), a one-line description of the prank, a rating, and a link to the screenshot. For example, the 2026 featured list includes:

• @PizzaHutCanada on X — Canadian locations selling a limited-time "Hot Dog Stuffed Crust Pizza" (rated 8)
• minecraft.wiki — an AI chatbot addition that "isn't what it seems" (rated 10)
• formidable.care — a "physical CAPTCHA" called HealthCAPTCHA that requires users to do a squat (rated 9)
• weather.com — "Retrocast," bringing back 90s-style broadcast graphics with live data (rated 12)
• xkcd.com — new reading modes (lighter mode, dark mode, space opera mode, hacker mode, screensaver mode) accessible from a menu below the comic (rated 10)

The top-20 list adds submission timestamps and scores, so you can see which jokes were submitted earliest and which drew the most votes. The 2026 leader was pc.net's "Super Ultrabox 2600" (score 39), followed by undertaleforfree.com's fake Undertale release (34) and Bulbapedia rebranding itself as "Pokopedia" (24).

When to use it — and what to expect

Use the site when you want to:

• Catch up on a year's pranks without hunting through social feeds — start with Featured, then Top 20.
• Verify a half-remembered joke — search the archive by year or company name.
• See the original page as it looked — the screenshot links are the point; the live prank page is usually gone.

Two practical caveats: ratings and rankings reflect submissions and votes from site visitors, not an editorial standard, so treat the scores as a popularity signal rather than a quality judgment. And because entries depend on user submissions, coverage of any given year is broad but not guaranteed to be exhaustive — a prank nobody submitted may simply be missing.

If you have a 2026 joke to add, the submission form on the homepage is the entry point; the site captures the screenshot at submission time, so submit while the prank page is still live.

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:

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.

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.