if the site remained like it did yesterday. i'd never come back to newgrounds due to my fvorite games being blocked

Lulz where is my whine message? >:(

How fucking gullible can you be?

I'll admit that I thought I was banned when I tried to post but to think that you planned to change the site for good never even crossed my mind!

I think we need more Chinese-type laws where you're not allowed to breed unless you pass a test.

i didn't believe it for 1 sec,when i logged on i was like..

Lmfao April Fools.....

but when i typed WTF and it came out with WHAT THE FORTUNE,i was randomly laughing LMFAO TOM.FILTERING TEXT!!!

:/

OMG! WHYD U TAKE IT OFF!
I loved that dam ping, he waz epix.
Also wtf did NG chat go! i want to talk to my chinese buddies.
Ah well its all gone now. Better cry myself to sleep because it was a april fools joke

I think many people forgot that yesterday was April Fools day.

wow, i was not aware that people were this stupid

At 4/2/09 02:42 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: I could';ve got first post in this thread, but I ended up spending too much time reading all those quotes.

rofflez.

wow thanks for tellung us, duuuuude

also this was really awesome. Tom, you and most of the ng staff are great for doing that. good work B)

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This is the most I've ever laughed at the idiocy of the average NGer.

I think the reason so many more people got tricked this year was because of the filters, April Fools to China Rules, was brilliant. Really confused the noobs because it was a lot harder for them to find clues letting the nooblets know it was April Fools.

Even then I'm still kind of stunned that people could actually believe it, lol.

I didn't think it would get much better than the McDonalds one from way back but this was pretty epic.
Good job guys!

it was honestly a good April Fool's prank--except for the color scheme. ughhhhh, that killed my eyes.

next time you do that kind of thing for an AF prank, at LEAST keep the color scheme bearable. yellow on bright red was murder.

It was really funny that the communist from Canada complained about not having freedom of speech.

That's one of the better April Fool's jokes.

People fell for that?

Well, as I said before, that was one hell of an epic April Fool's.

I mean China Rules.

At 4/2/09 02:31 PM, TomFulp wrote:

"I HEREBY EXPLICITLY DECLINE THE SITE'S TERMS OF SERVICE
YOU MUST NOW REMOVE MY ACCOUNT AND DELETE MY INFO"

just curious, did you do it?

So fucking hilarious. Definitely the best April Fools joke I have ever seen and probably will ever see. It was not only funny, but had an underlying message and hopefully increased awareness of Chinese censorship and the importance of freedom of expression on all forms of media.

You really outdid yourself this time Tom!! Also, it was awesome and pathetic to see all the people who never quite caught on. You must've received more PMs yesterday than ever before.

It's going to be near impossible to beat this next year though, good luck.

I think the real reason why it was reblocked is because of me, look at this!

They must've seen this and got pissed!

Nice April fool joke...lol! javascript:MakeSmileySelection(1);
Great job on the team!javascript:MakeSmileySelection(10);

At 4/2/09 02:31 PM, TomFulp wrote:

I received hundreds of concerned PMs from users who did not approve of the changes. We are each entitled to our own opinion and I have decided to share some quotes from the messages I received:

Jesus Tapdancing Christ.

... Jesus Tapdancing Christ.

I had a feeling it was all an april fools joke. Could've ended worse tho. I did however think that it was an impressibe april fools joke tho, the flashes, the design, it was all a perfect joke and it certainly did have its effect. Genius is all i can say. just genius

When I couldn't watch flashes or post in the forum, I had to figure that that was their April Fool's joke. I'm not surprised at the reaction to it as well.

i miss the red-design already :`(

Anyone got a complete set of word filters?
Newgrounds -> China
Flash -> Mental Excersice
Game -> Physicsal Excersize
The -> (nothing)
A -> (nothing)
Think -> I forgot

Hey Tom, thanks for front page yesterday.

My user header and forum signature is still censored!!

At 4/2/09 02:31 PM, TomFulp wrote: As many of you noticed, yesterday we tried to change Newgrounds to comply with Chinese regulations and get unblocked in China.

Did you REALLY try to get Chinese approval for this site, or was that just a platform for all the jokes?

I find it hard to believe that there was anything serious behind all of it, given the number of blatant piss-takes and petty cultural slandering.

Dude, yesterday was my favorite day of the year. I even posted my ratings in stereotypical Chinese/English. Thank you Mr. Fulp for poking the Fan-Boys, that can't look up from their monitors to check the date, in the eye. Now ,everywhere that doesn't observe yesterday as April fools Day, sorry you got caught in the middle. To everyone else who got all flamey and hostile, I say ' ;P ' Thanks Tom!

+Dionysis

What a scary april fools joke, for a second i though the chinese were taking over newgrounds.
you sure had me fooled xD

look at what the april fools joke did to this chicki.

You should make a April Fools Wall of Shame. If those idiots couldn't figure out it was a joke from between the time they got on to the site and while writing you those stupid PM's then they deserve to be admitted to NGs wall of shame.

I took a load of screen shots as proof and documentation. Link to the gallery