At 4/1/09 01:59 AM, TomFulp wrote: Hey guys!

Many of you have noticed our big change around here: We've been unblocked by China!

For months now we've been lobbying Chinese government officials to allow our site to be viewed by Chinese citizens. It was a long process, and began over a year ago when we talked with Google about what concessions they had to make in order to make their site accessible. So after a year of negotiating and more months of planning, here we are! As you can see, we've skinned the site in honor of this momentous agreement with the Chinese government.

I'm sure lots of you are wondering why we even bother with China at all. Well, as of January 2009 China represents 298 million people with web access. If one tenth of one percent of them visited here each month, we'd have 298,000 more visitors. If just 1% of those new visitors bought t-shirts, we're looking at 2,980 sales and an additional $59,600 in monthly revenue. These numbers are too big to ignore any longer, especially when Americants can't afford shirts and our country is one trillion dollars in debt to China! Good news is, these shirts are U.S. made so there is job creation going on.

Anyway, we DID have to make several concessions to some higher-ups, but nothing more drastic than anything Google had to do when it launched there. They were only tiny changes, and truthfully you won't notice any difference at all.

Now, help me welcome our new Chinese neighbors to our community!

And now, I leave you with the following required viewing!
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/45 2419

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what the fuck? the chinese got a chat, where is ours?

I loved it. Certainly the most effort-intensive April Fool's joke this site has ever done. I had a blast fucking with people who just didn't grasp that it was a joke. :-D

Now back to freaking people out with 'the BBS is going to be deleted'.

lol, nice one.

Im half chinese and all I have to say is WWWWAAAAAAHHHHHHOOOOOOZZZZZZZZZAAAAAAA!

It's especially funny because it seems most people who know it was a joke, don't realize that most of the crap we went through yesterday is what people in china have to put up with every day on most, if not all chinese websites.

Great stuff.

WAIT A MINUTE IF THIS IS A APRIL FOOLS THEN I WILL @:^"£^$&&**%**$&$&$"&((((:@{.

At 4/1/09 04:53 PM, Dong-Wei-Gong wrote: SO EXCITED I CAN'T STOP SMILING!

You're under a dictatorship! They drug you food! If you stop smiling, they kill you!

So When I saw the april fools joke I didn't realize you couldn't post. So I quick made a Forum sig and homepage graphic. But I couldn't post (which c'mon people stop whining it's the natural extension of the joke) and now they don't fit. Shit.

-_- the april fools thing wasnt funny

omg i was fucking freaking out for like 20 min, i was all"NOOOO" how could they?? then i looked at the calender and slapped myself for being so stupid. good job NG that was the best April fools ever!!

A Day late after the skin changed back but this has to be one of the best april fools jokes i have seen in ages! You revitalised my love of annoying people. Thank you Tom. Or should I say you are most respectful. If that fits in the right context...

HOW THE HELL DIDJA GET PAST THE CHINESE INTERNET CENSORS??

BRAVO!

what would newgrounds be without an april fools re-design? actually it would probably be the same but still! I actually stayed up on march 31 wondering what you guys had planned for the next day. not being able to post was slightly annoying but oh well. it was still fun exploring to see what was changed around and what not. so great job guys!

I for one absolutely loved it. Chairman Fulp did great deed for proletarian governments all over. Epic lulz were had.

At 4/2/09 12:14 PM, carmine741 wrote: i still think that was an april fools prank cause it only lasted one day, April fools day

ARE YOU FOR SERIOUS?

now what am i supposed to do about my wonderful China submission Chairman Fulp?

Hey, just a'thing, the Flash portal, still has the voting image of a chinese girl.
Just to notify. :D

Hey Tom, can we have our Smilies back too.

(Only 4 of them are non-communist).

BEST
APRILFOOLS
EVARR XD

i actually fell for it
and got soo pissed off XD

amazing, i love you tom

april fools right? right?? O.o

no one suspects this to ba an april fools joke?!

The best part of the joke was seeing all the retards (or fools?) cry about it and post long angry comments about how Newgrounds sold out to China. A lot of times they sorta caught on "I hope it's an April Fools joke" and yet still managed to remain too stupid to put it all together. Usually when I checked their profiles they tended to be 13 years old, but really being young is no excuse for being a fucking dipshit.

I thought it was fucking hilarious, best April Fools EVER. And to all of you who tried to ruin the joke, fuck you!

Nice.

Best April Fool's joke so far.

Greatest idea for an april fools day.
Most horrid experience on a april fools day.

At 4/2/09 01:57 PM, zantothedread wrote: Hey, just a'thing, the Flash portal, still has the voting image of a chinese girl.
Just to notify. :D

And it goes back to Pico once you've voted.

lulz

Huh? Awesome, Best April fools joke ever, but i got pissed off too.
Tom Fulp is intelligent.

That Chinese thing was funny. But it looked completely fake. But it was still funny. I know Chinese.

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lol

WELCOME TO FORTUNE!?

At 4/2/09 10:54 AM, TheDeliMan wrote: the china layout and sensorship sucked dont do it agian

It waz a way to get accepted to China and 2 it waz a April fools joke gone too far in a way or mater or such or u know duh!

At 4/2/09 03:09 AM, Greenfrost6 wrote:

At 4/2/09 03:01 AM, SpeedMetalSandwich wrote: Best April Fools ever.

Agreed.

retards

Loved the joke. It really revealed the <s>lack of</s> intelligence of some people in Newgrounds. A lot of the movies and games and censorship revealed what it really is like to use the internet in China. No unfiltered Google, no Youtube, censored posts, blogs, etc.