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| 2025 | Lele Pons appears in the documentary film 'Larissa: The Other Side of Anitta' as herself |
| April 1 2025 |
Reddit April Fools' Day events
Reddit launched r/Field, an April Fools' Day interactive game combining elements of r/place and Minesweeper. Users were randomly assigned to four teams (Flamingo, Juicebox, Lasagna, and Sunshine) and could only place their team's color (Pink, Blue, Orange, and Yellow). The game board contained hidden mines that would 'ban' players to progressively more obscure subreddits.
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| March 9 2025 | Lele Pons and Guaynaa announced they are expecting their first child together |
| January 2025 | Released his debut album 'G7: The Death of Fousey', which received mixed reviews from critics. |
| 2024 | Nelk supported Trump's 2024 United States presidential election campaign, with Forgeard speaking at multiple campaign rallies. |
| 2024 |
Loki
Tom Hiddleston received multiple nominations for his role in Loki, including Critics' Choice Television Awards for Best Actor in a Drama Series, People's Choice Awards for Male TV Star of the Year, Critics' Choice Super Awards for Best Actor in a Superhero Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie, Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Male TV Star (Family), and Astra TV Awards for Best Actor in a Streaming Drama Series
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| 2024 | Lele Pons is featured as a friend in Shakira's song 'Soltera'. |
| 2024 | Lele Pons released the single 'Las Burbujas del Jacuzzi' with India Martínez and Greeicy. |
| October 2024 |
Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT hackers carved the words 'Free Gaza' into the grass turf in front of the Great Dome as part of 2024 pro-Palestine protests.
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| October 1 2024 |
Google April Fools' Day jokes
Google Japan created the Gboard Double-Sided Version, a keyboard uniquely shaped like a Möbius Strip, featuring a two-sided design.
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| September 2024 |
Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A protest banner reading 'Lockheed Martin Kills Kids in Gaza' was displayed above the MIT Career Fair, criticizing Lockheed Martin's weapon sales to Israel during the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
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| April 1 2024 |
Reddit April Fools' Day events
Reddit had no official April Fools' Day event. r/Counter was created, which users initially mistook as the potential event, but it turned out to be an unofficial game.
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| 2023 |
Loki
Loki ultimately sacrifices his personal freedom to help maintain the multiverse, showcasing his growth from a villainous character to a heroic figure.
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| 2023 | Happy Dad hard seltzer became a top five brand at Total Wine according to IRI data. |
| 2023 |
Sleepaway Camp
Actress Felissa Rose defended the film in an interview, arguing that the film was ahead of its time in 1982 and represented an adolescent story of gender identification and sexual orientation.
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| 2023 | Lele Pons acquired US citizenship at the age of 23. |
| 2023 | Pons competed in season nine of The Masked Singer as 'Jackalope' and was eliminated on 'Sesame Street Night.' |
| 2023 | Lele Pons released the singles 'Abajito' and 'De Party En Party' with Guaynaa. |
| 2023 | Pons was announced as a contestant on the 32nd season of Dancing with the Stars, partnered with Brandon Armstrong. |
| October 1 2023 |
Google April Fools' Day jokes
Google Japan introduced the Gboard CAPS, a large key-shaped hat where users can select letters by rotating and transmit a keypress by pressing down on the hat.
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| August 23 2023 | Erakat was arrested on livestream by police in Miami, Florida, after calling 911 on himself during a dispute with another streamer. |
| August 7 2023 | The day after the incident, Erakat was banned from Twitch for hateful conduct towards the LGBT community. |
| August 6 2023 | While Twitch streaming at an airport, Erakat encountered an intoxicated woman and faced backlash after claiming they had sex, which he later called a prank before becoming emotional. |
| April 2023 |
Reddit April Fools' Day events
During the r/Field event, players who hit hidden mines were 'banned' and moved to sequential subreddits: r/BannedField, r/BananaField, and r/WhatIsField, with a final return to r/Field if banned from the last subreddit.
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| April 20 2023 | Lele Pons released her collaborative studio album titled 'Capitulaciones' in partnership with Guaynaa. |
| April 1 2023 |
Reddit April Fools' Day events
Reddit launched the r/schrodingers alternate reality game (ARG) for April Fools' Day. The event began with a deceptive admin post claiming no April Fools' event was happening, which secretly contained a link to the r/schrodingers subreddit. The ARG involved 10 complex clues that ultimately led participants to a subreddit post featuring a GIF of a potato connected to computers, playfully referencing Reddit users' jokes about the platform's server infrastructure.
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| April 1 2023 |
Reddit April Fools' Day events
Reddit launched r/Field, an April Fools' Day interactive game combining elements of r/place and Minesweeper. Players were randomly assigned to four teams (Flamingo, Juicebox, Lasagna, and Sunshine) and could only place their team's specific color (Pink, Blue, Orange, and Yellow respectively) on a game board with hidden mines.
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| March 4 2023 | Lele Pons married Puerto Rican rapper Guaynaa. |
| 2022 |
Loki
Tom Hiddleston won multiple awards for his role in Loki, including Critics' Choice Super Awards for Best Actor in a Superhero Series, Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Male TV Star (Family), and MTV Movie & TV Awards for Best Team
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| 2022 |
Prank call
George W. Bush was prank called by two Russian citizens, during which he stated, 'I wanted Ukraine into NATO.'
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| 2022 | Lele Pons collaborated with Florida Georgia Line on the single 'Rendezvous' included in their album 'Greatest Hits'. |
| 2022 | Pons competed in season four of ¿Quién es la máscara? as 'Pulpo' and was the first contestant eliminated. |
| 2022 | Pons received the Influencer Pioneer Award from the Women's Entrepreneurship Day Organization at the United Nations. |
| November 2022 | Opened Doughbrik's Pizza restaurant in Los Angeles and announced plans for a potential reality TV show about the restaurant's employees. |
| October 1 2022 |
Google April Fools' Day jokes
Google Japan released the Gboard Bar Version, an extraordinary single-row keyboard that spans 5.25 feet in length.
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| August 27 2022 | FouseyTube faced Deji Olatunji in a professional boxing match at The O2 Arena in London, where he lost by TKO in the third round. |
| July 2022 | Lele Pons got engaged to Puerto Rican rapper Guaynaa. |
| April 2022 |
Reddit April Fools' Day events
During the r/place event, the canvas was expanded from 1000 x 1000 to 2000 x 1000 pixels on the second day, allowing for more collaborative artwork.
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| April 2022 |
Reddit April Fools' Day events
Before the r/place event concluded, users were restricted to placing only white pixels, effectively reverting the canvas to its original state.
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| April 1 2022 |
Reddit April Fools' Day events
Reddit launched r/place April Fools' Day event, featuring a 1000 x 1000 pixel collaborative canvas where users could edit a single pixel's color every five minutes. The event began at 1:00 PM GMT and was scheduled to run for 87 hours.
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| March 2022 | Trump appeared on the Full Send Podcast, which went viral with 5 million views in 24 hours before being removed by YouTube. |
| February 2022 | Kyle Forgeard was officially added to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for social media influencers. |
| 2021 |
Sprite
During the events of Eternals, Sprite uses the Uni-Mind's power to become human, willingly losing her immortal powers and supernatural abilities in order to age normally and live a human life.
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| 2021 |
Sprite
CBR.com ranked Sprite 10th in their "10 Strongest Characters From Eternals Comics" list, recognizing the character's significance in the comic book universe.
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| 2021 |
Sprite
Sprite was portrayed by Lia McHugh in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals, with Hannah Dodd playing Sprite's illusionary adult form 'Sandra'.
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| 2021 |
Loki
Loki appears in the live-action series Loki and the animated series What If...?
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| 2021 |
Loki
Appears in the animated short film The Good, the Bart, and the Loki.
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| 2021 | Nelk, along with partners, launched their hard seltzer brand Happy Dad, produced at Minhas Breweries & Distillery in Monroe, Wisconsin. |
| 2021 |
Loki
Tom Hiddleston won the People's Choice Awards for Male TV Star of 2021 for Loki
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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles House on Haunted Hill (1999 film), Sprite (Eternal), Sleepaway Camp, List of Reddit April Fools' Day events, Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List of Google April Fools' Day jokes, Prank call, Nelk, Lele Pons, Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe), David Dobrik & FouseyTube, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.