A Rundown of April Fools 2023
Apr 1, 2023 19:20:33 GMT -5
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Post by Mongo the Destroyer on Apr 1, 2023 19:20:33 GMT -5
Haha, you guys didn't really think you had gotten rid of me, did you?
So this year's April Fools day stuff was surprisingly complicated and layered.
First off, as a way to throw people off, Kuroi posted his application for the revival of AWF early. He actually wanted to post it mid-month but I didn't think it'd be right to let a fed sit that long in the thing without approval or denial.
Sorry guys, I wanted it to be true too. AWF was great and if Kuroi, Hype, and Steele had the time to make it I bet it'd rock out really hard. But alas, Kuroi just wanted to play with your emotions.
And so did I!
I wrote a semi-retirement post explaining why I was leaving the ownership role. Some of the things in it are true, my life has gotten more difficult- but I love the XHF Network and I'm also very selfish when it comes to power. The day might come that I'll step down, but it's not this week, that's for sure! Anyway, all of that was just a prelude to announcing Steve as the new owner, thus justifying this:
(Mav made this, he had to spend hours looking at a naked Steve Awesome for you)
Yeah, get a real good long look at that. That's some naked Steve right there. The real pic it's based on is in the discord, and those clouds are covering a 95% actually naked Steve Awesome. That's dedication to the craft, man.
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!
For those of you in the know, a month or so ago I became the owner of the Efed Hub. And for their April Fools I went full megalomaniac, changing the name of it to "The XHF Hub" and I even got Mav to whip up an alternate logo for it:
I also may or may not have threatened everyone there that I was going to delete their feds if they didn't join the Network:
This got a mix of reactions- including a fed actually signing up to join the Network (and they might stay!). Overall though once folks figured out the ruse it was a nice little chuckle.
I wanted to give a shout-out here to Mav and Kuroi for helping with the development of stuff this year as well as making graphics to help sell them.
I also wanted to apologize to Frank Windsor, I deleted his post in my retirement thread because it was too early into the ruse (we hadn't even gotten the Steve layout up yet!) and I didn't want to give it away. Next time just message me with a wink, Frank! Meanwhile Ed (not our usual Ed, the Original LD) also posted a spoiler that it was April Fools but I was already asleep by them. BOO THAT MAN!
Hopefully nobody got too emotionally invested in any of the fools and had a good time. Also now we have a new layout with shirtless Steve Awesome. Dope.
The Rumble card will be out soon but most of the matches are still TBA on certain details.
Keep rockin' on guys!
So this year's April Fools day stuff was surprisingly complicated and layered.
First off, as a way to throw people off, Kuroi posted his application for the revival of AWF early. He actually wanted to post it mid-month but I didn't think it'd be right to let a fed sit that long in the thing without approval or denial.
Sorry guys, I wanted it to be true too. AWF was great and if Kuroi, Hype, and Steele had the time to make it I bet it'd rock out really hard. But alas, Kuroi just wanted to play with your emotions.
And so did I!
I wrote a semi-retirement post explaining why I was leaving the ownership role. Some of the things in it are true, my life has gotten more difficult- but I love the XHF Network and I'm also very selfish when it comes to power. The day might come that I'll step down, but it's not this week, that's for sure! Anyway, all of that was just a prelude to announcing Steve as the new owner, thus justifying this:
(Mav made this, he had to spend hours looking at a naked Steve Awesome for you)
Yeah, get a real good long look at that. That's some naked Steve right there. The real pic it's based on is in the discord, and those clouds are covering a 95% actually naked Steve Awesome. That's dedication to the craft, man.
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!
For those of you in the know, a month or so ago I became the owner of the Efed Hub. And for their April Fools I went full megalomaniac, changing the name of it to "The XHF Hub" and I even got Mav to whip up an alternate logo for it:
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I also may or may not have threatened everyone there that I was going to delete their feds if they didn't join the Network:
This got a mix of reactions- including a fed actually signing up to join the Network (and they might stay!). Overall though once folks figured out the ruse it was a nice little chuckle.
I wanted to give a shout-out here to Mav and Kuroi for helping with the development of stuff this year as well as making graphics to help sell them.
I also wanted to apologize to Frank Windsor, I deleted his post in my retirement thread because it was too early into the ruse (we hadn't even gotten the Steve layout up yet!) and I didn't want to give it away. Next time just message me with a wink, Frank! Meanwhile Ed (not our usual Ed, the Original LD) also posted a spoiler that it was April Fools but I was already asleep by them. BOO THAT MAN!
Hopefully nobody got too emotionally invested in any of the fools and had a good time. Also now we have a new layout with shirtless Steve Awesome. Dope.
The Rumble card will be out soon but most of the matches are still TBA on certain details.
Keep rockin' on guys!