This article is written for the projecteducate (https://www.deviantart.com/projecteducate)'s Community Week as well as ArtHistoryProject (https://www.deviantart.com/arthistoryproject)'s dA Related month.
Here is a brief history of April Fool's pranks deviantART has played on it's members. Please note that information is still missing (mostly older years) - this is because some April Fool's pranks were never recorded or are lost in the millions of journals on the site.
2001 - "jark (https://www.deviantart.com/jark) is Arrested"
jark (https://www.deviantart.com/jark) is arrested in Disneyland for cutting in line and refusing to move to the back.
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2004 - "British Takeover"
April Fool's Day 2004 marked the day the British took over deviantART. New rules were