PONECOIN, Unstable AI, Starlight Glimmer petrifies everyone, Trixie takeovers, and more. Over the years, EQD has had some pretty epic April Fools events. Today we cover those, along with the other weird things from both Hasbro and the fandom!
Go get it all below.
2011
Trixie took over EQD all day long, spamming Trixie things and discussing Trixie content with Trixie's many special talents.
Please find the greatest day in Equestria Daily's existence over here.
And on top of that, a ton of sites around the internet celebrated April Fools with ponies today!
Today, the Brony fandom decided to invite old generations of MLP for April Fools, which cause a whole bunch of drama when everyone collectively made fun of oldschool horses. It caused a pretty big rift between the "new" fandom and the old crowd that ventured into FiM expecting a bunch of people that liked ALL ponies.
Eventually we amended those fences, though there are still some in the oldschool fans that hate bronies because of this!
2013
Today, we monitored EVERYTHING. Including nonpony. Which was primarily built around ponifying everything instead. It was good times, but also really dumb. April Fools on EQD was an all-day affair for most years.
We also got that Tropical Octave video, which was amazing.
2014
Today, EQD went to the future, reporting on all of the amazing events of 35 years of G4 pony! In this alternate universe, Hasbro just kept on dumping horse episodes starring Twilight and friends.
Joining us, the Brony Documentary announced that they'd have a side series covering the "clop" side of the fandom with "Bronies Gone Wild", and way too many people fell for this one.
And finally, The Hub was always amazing for April Fools. They announced DRAGONFIRE, a sci-fi pony series, along with GIANT bonbon. Definitley check those videos out! Dragonfire in particular had a lot of people wishing we could get it.
2015
EQD Ditched the girly sterotypes today and went MANLY. Our usual mare focused content was instead entirely dedicated to STALLION POWER.
And Discovery Family with APPLE BLOOMERS. Unfortunately the video for it was taken down.
And in non-April news, we got our first Fiendship is Magic comic today.
2016
Today Equestria Daily became the Equality Inquirer, headed by none other than Starlight Glimmer herself. This was always my personal favorite April 1st event. It got super dark though after she turned everyone into statues and went insane. EQD became a grimdark fic.
2017
EQD parodied saucy ponies today, and did covered various hot sauces, asian sauces, every other kind of sauce.
2018
2018 was that big crypto hype year, which of course spawned various coins around the fandom. Here on EQD, we had PONECOIN, and spent all day reminding you why April Fools on EQD takes silly jokes and drags them wayyy too long.
Of course part two of the day involved an AI takeover. Who would have thought we'd be here 5 years later seeing that actually happen...?
And from the Hasbro side of things, they promoted pony poop on Instagram. Wild times.
