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Vergil, son of Sparda ([info]vergilsparda) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2006-04-01 13:19:00


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Current mood:*sporfle!*
Current music:Depeche Mode - John the Revelator

Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing...
A few days ago, y!gallery, the yaoi/male art only gallery, was deactivated for lack of bandwitdh. The announced return date was April 1st. You can probably guess where this is headed.

For April Fool's day (I assume), the y!gallery admin posts a news saying it has been bought by deviantART.

Many of the users proceed to utterly shit themselves in rage, despite other's calls to stay calm and check the date.

All in all, a good time is not had by all.

EDIT: It was indeed an April Fools' joke. The site is now back to normal. People are freaking out EVEN MORE.

God, this is fabulous *wipes tear*

EDIT 2: MDY, one of the supermoderators, makes a news post to ask people to stop flaming the mods already and stop spreading the rumour that the hoax was done to scam people out of their money. PeopleSTILL FREAK OUT demanding the apologies that they think they are due.

Some people just never get jokes, I suppose.

Is there a law when someone compares a prank on the 'net to a hospital calling to say their grandmother is dead?



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[info]symbeline
2006-04-01 07:31 pm UTC (link)
April Fool's: the wankiest day of the year.

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[info]nanthimus
2006-04-01 07:33 pm UTC (link)
God I love April Fool's Day.

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[info]narcissam
2006-04-02 02:59 am UTC (link)
I love it on the internet. This year's FW events have gone to my head, of course.

As for my family, they come up with boring stuff like, "THERE'S A GIRAFFE IN THE FRONT YARD!"

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(no subject) - [info]nanthimus, 2006-04-02 03:56 am UTC

[info]tofuknight
2006-04-01 07:45 pm UTC (link)
My God... "utterly shit themselves in rage" is right. Wow.

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[info]sennet
2006-04-01 08:01 pm UTC (link)
Missed it by two minutes! Damn, bitch! XD

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[info]vergilsparda
2006-04-01 08:23 pm UTC (link)
Teehee! XD

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Gotta love suicide threats on the interweb!
[info]sennet
2006-04-01 08:02 pm UTC (link)
Best quotes include:

"If there's no apology in big 100point letters tomorrow, I'm gone forever, removing the link, buh-bye. It's not a funny joke."

"You know, I wonder how many people will follow through with leaving forever even if it is a joke?

Quite frankly, I hope they do.

This is y!. Everything goes up the ass BUT sticks.

Happy April Fools."


" This has to be a joke ;_; i don't wanna see yuri, i'd rather cut my wrists and see them bleed to my death."

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Re: Gotta love suicide threats on the interweb!
[info]vergilsparda
2006-04-01 08:24 pm UTC (link)
It's almost too bad y!'s delete submission function is deactivated. The DRAMA would have been so much more intense if it hadn't.

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Re: Gotta love suicide threats on the interweb! - [info]sennet, 2006-04-01 08:31 pm UTC
Re: Gotta love suicide threats on the interweb!
[info]ayezur
2006-04-01 09:01 pm UTC (link)
The hell does that man have against lesbians?

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Re: Gotta love suicide threats on the interweb! - [info]vergilsparda, 2006-04-01 09:03 pm UTC
Re: Gotta love suicide threats on the interweb! - [info]sennet, 2006-04-01 09:06 pm UTC
Re: Gotta love suicide threats on the interweb! - [info]eclair, 2006-04-02 12:57 am UTC
Re: Gotta love suicide threats on the interweb! - [info]sennet, 2006-04-02 01:07 am UTC
Re: Gotta love suicide threats on the interweb! - [info]beccastareyes, 2006-04-01 11:54 pm UTC

[info]made_by_kali
2006-04-01 08:31 pm UTC (link)
I officially heart Snover now. Yaoi fangirls are so emotional.

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[info]sennet
2006-04-01 08:32 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, seriously. Calm down, laydees.

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(no subject) - [info]made_by_kali, 2006-04-01 08:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sennet, 2006-04-01 08:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]made_by_kali, 2006-04-01 08:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]azawakh, 2006-04-01 08:57 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]nekoama, 2006-04-02 01:23 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]made_by_kali, 2006-04-02 01:53 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]visp, 2006-04-02 08:00 am UTC

[info]luxshine
2006-04-01 08:58 pm UTC (link)
Why every single time a site does this kind of stuff on April 1st the shit hits the fan? And it's not from mainly non-americans? Sure, the first time it happened in a forum I liked I was fooled because I don't celebrate April 1st (BTW, don't trust Mexican based news-sites on December 28, FYI), but 6 years later? I take everything that comes out on April 1st with a grain of salt.

OTOH, thank you so much for posting this because I had no idea of what had happened to y!gallery in the first place.

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[info]vergilsparda
2006-04-01 09:09 pm UTC (link)
People are humourless asses?

Oh, and my pleasure ^_^

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(no subject) - [info]luxshine, 2006-04-02 02:37 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]amxjm, 2006-04-01 09:22 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]luxshine, 2006-04-02 02:40 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-04-02 01:57 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]luxshine, 2006-04-02 02:43 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-04-02 03:17 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]luxshine, 2006-04-02 05:15 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]spawn_of_kong, 2006-04-02 04:37 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]luxshine, 2006-04-02 05:12 am UTC

[info]darkeyes
2006-04-01 10:06 pm UTC (link)
Wow.

There's a lot of stupid people in that thread.

I never knew there could be such frothing at the mouth vitriol over the possibility, that one might see a naked breast or two, when searching for pr0n.

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[info]hallidae
2006-04-01 10:12 pm UTC (link)
Personally, I thought it was a fuckin' brilliant prank, if just for the amount of screaming splooge it generated.

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(no subject) - [info]hallidae, 2006-04-01 10:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]agent_hyatt, 2006-04-02 12:57 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]luxshine, 2006-04-02 02:46 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]hallidae, 2006-04-02 03:10 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]luxshine, 2006-04-02 05:16 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]hallidae, 2006-04-02 07:42 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]vergilsparda, 2006-04-02 08:00 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]hallidae, 2006-04-02 08:00 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]luxshine, 2006-04-02 02:31 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]eclair, 2006-04-02 12:59 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]nekoama, 2006-04-02 01:21 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]wanktastic, 2006-04-02 02:33 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kylenne, 2006-04-02 05:15 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]mathilde, 2006-04-02 03:19 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]freezer, 2006-04-02 01:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]adora_spintriae, 2006-04-03 07:37 am UTC

iwanttobeasleep
2006-04-01 10:59 pm UTC (link)
. . .Why haven't we learned that most of the news we get today is bad? (Also, RIP Mitch Hedberg, who died a year ago Wednesday, and whose death announcement I thought was a joke because it was announced on April 1st.)

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(no subject) - [info]sticky_pbj, 2006-04-01 11:54 pm UTC

[info]tetsuki
2006-04-01 11:42 pm UTC (link)
Damn. You beat me to it. I was actually planning to post this on [info]clairvoyantwank first, but it seems that the comments assploded. ;D Must get some popcorn. I predict this will last beyond April 1.

Personally, I think it's a great prank. It's as good as this one (PhilMUG stands for Philippine Macintosh Users Group, so the new look really killed me. XD)

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[info]marsdragon
2006-04-01 11:54 pm UTC (link)
Wait, that was a JOKE? I don't get yuri and het porn?

I DON'T GET BOOBIES?

Mega-sadface.

(It actually did fool me for a bit in there. I are dumb.)

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pink_lightning
2006-04-02 12:00 am UTC (link)
That's fucking wonderful. XD

I'm not wild about the day, but I'm sure as hell not going to let it go by without doing something.

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But what are their thoughts on...
[info]khym_chanur
2006-04-02 02:53 am UTC (link)
*runs away and hides*

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[info]sneer
2006-04-02 06:58 am UTC (link)
I thought it was fuckin' hilarious, myself.

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[info]luxshine
2006-04-02 07:19 am UTC (link)
Update brought to you by insomnia.

The site is back as it was, snopes apologized/explained but even so the drama queens are still going at it.
In fact, many have claimed that they won't come back to Y!Gallery, and a couple are looking for php programmers and have already created a new yaoi forum that is not going to suck... or something. I just checked it by pure curiosity and can't stop laughing at how 'offended' they were for a 24 hour prank.

The best part? Snopes announced that for all the 'waah, evilDA' people, and 'weeY!Gallery is a true community, not like DA', no one wrote to ask about the mods that had been, theorically, let go. So, nice community feeling, right?

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(no subject) - [info]pirotess, 2006-04-02 07:22 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]vergilsparda, 2006-04-02 07:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]pirotess, 2006-04-02 07:34 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]vergilsparda, 2006-04-02 08:00 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]luxshine, 2006-04-02 07:27 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]pirotess, 2006-04-02 07:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sennet, 2006-04-02 08:00 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]vergilsparda, 2006-04-02 07:27 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]luxshine, 2006-04-02 07:32 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]vergilsparda, 2006-04-02 08:00 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]luxshine, 2006-04-02 02:10 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sennet, 2006-04-02 08:00 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]luxshine, 2006-04-02 02:12 pm UTC
Gossip! - [info]kelschuu, 2006-04-02 08:42 am UTC
Re: Gossip! - [info]luxshine, 2006-04-02 02:16 pm UTC
Re: Gossip! - [info]vergilsparda, 2006-04-02 08:30 pm UTC
Re: Gossip! - [info]luxshine, 2006-04-02 08:35 pm UTC
Re: Gossip! - [info]tetsuki, 2006-04-03 01:51 am UTC
Re: Gossip! - [info]luxshine, 2006-04-03 02:35 am UTC
Re: Gossip! - [info]kelschuu, 2006-04-02 08:32 pm UTC
Re: Gossip! - [info]luxshine, 2006-04-02 08:38 pm UTC
Re: Gossip! - [info]kelschuu, 2006-04-02 08:42 pm UTC
Re: Gossip! - [info]luxshine, 2006-04-03 01:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]tetsuki, 2006-04-02 10:35 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]luxshine, 2006-04-02 02:21 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]adora_spintriae, 2006-04-03 07:36 am UTC

[info]annabelle_lee
2006-04-02 07:22 am UTC (link)
Alright, I have to hand it to Snover; that was a good one. I suppose I can now change my feelings about him from 'utter douchebag who should die in a fire' to 'douchebag'.

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(no subject) - [info]pyrrah, 2006-04-04 01:40 am UTC

[info]aerobot
2006-04-02 08:00 am UTC (link)
So THAT'S what I heard last night - the sound of a million fangirls going "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEZZ!!!111!!"

That said, I am curious about this 'hypocrisy' that the girls are talking about. What, is there an unofficial policy of deleting yaoi art but allowing straight stuff or something?

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[info]hallidae
2006-04-03 12:14 am UTC (link)
Popping in again:

Did anybody else finish reading the "grandmother died" girl's comments and want to strangle her for constantly using "yuh" and "meh" instead of "you" and "me"? That's not even a fuckin' dialect, that's just attempting to be "original" in your netspeak and failing miserably.

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(no subject) - [info]honorh, 2006-04-03 12:40 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]tetsuki, 2006-04-03 01:40 am UTC

 
   
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