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Oh nice, now it's literally just the price of a good beer at a bar! ...There's a reason I don't go out to bars anymore, this is a better deal right here.

I might get one of these towards the end of the month, depends on if I've spent too much on actual beer.

Beer chugging ych! Link to buy

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in loving memory of tumblr's april fools' pranks 💐 2014 - 2024

icymi, tumblr used to do an elaborate april fool's prank every year, but this year they suddenly stopped. here's a somewhat detailed recap of everything they did over the decade:

2013 - mishapocalypse (honourable mention): tumblr staff didn’t start doing april fools until 2014, but the mishapocalypse happened on tumblr in 2013 and i feel like this list would be incomplete without it

2014 - tumblrpro: upon opening your dash you were greeted by an “inspirational” video, that ended with the option to get “tumblrpro (for free)”. all it did was put a top hat on your icon.

2015 - tumblr executivesuite/coppy: a copying machine appeared in the corner of your dash. it would offer tips on how to use tumblr, like clippy the paperclip used to do in microsoft word. as the day went on, it slowly broke down and died right in front of your eyes. many people hated him (but not me). you could also make a (small) spreadsheet. @executivesuite2016 is the official blog.

2016 - this is decision/lizard election/tumblrdecides: a parody of the 2016 US elections. there were 4 lizards (well, one of them turned out to be a salamander in a scandal) to vote for. the dash looked different and there was a live news report with election updates, as well as an election blog for each lizard. they all had their own slogans and you would get an "i voted" button after you voted that would get slapped next to your icon. there were built-in functions to make an election poster for your favourite lizard and to create a text post that supported your lizard of choice that autogenerated a statement for all your followers to read. imo tumblr’s april fools peak. @thisisdecision2016-blog is the official blog, @mop-2016-blog @wretchedtooth @timefordeborah-blog were candidates. rick also had a blog (rick-official) but that now seems to have vanished because he ended up dropping out of the election. mop won, if you're curious. by far the most elaborate prank tumblr ever did.

2017 - horse friend: a tamagotchi-inspired game where you had to take care of a little horse in the corner of your screen. it came with a randomly generated name, and you had to feed and clean up after it. if you didnt take good care of it, it died. you could then hatch (yes, hatch) a new one. there was also an option to look at the names of all your dead horses. this is now available to buy in the tumblr shop. @horse-friends is the official blog.

2018 - tumblcoin: a parody of cryptocurrency (this was the year bitcoin took off). you could ‘invest’ in tumblcoin, with which you could in turn buy things with to spice up your dash, including last year’s horse friend, coppy from 2015, and a frame for around your icon. you could share the amount of tumblcoin you owned in an automatically generated gif post which would be tagged #tbc2018 and #tumblcoin. @tumblcoin is the official blog.

2019 - @memories: this blog still functions the way it did on april fools itself! it's like mad libs, where it takes post templates and then adds in tags you use a lot and users you frequently interact with on your main blog. like a personalized shitpost bot.

2020 - group chat prank/@storybot: it was so hard to find info on this because it was contained entirely in the now-defunct group chat function, which no one used. i had to go through the notes of this post for information because no one cared enough to actually write anything explaining it. turns out, you could write a story with your mutuals by adding storybot to your group chat. it also kept working after april fools (well, up until the group chats were deleted) just like memories. many people missed out on it entirely because they did not use the group chat function.

2021 - tumblcryptids: tumblr allowed you to adopt “non-fungible tumblcryptids”, a parody of NFTs. clicking a button that said "Summon thy Tumblrcryptid" would spawn an image of a little blob-shaped creature with a short description, which would always read "Hi! My name is [randomly generated name]. I love [thing most people like]. I hate [thing most people dislike]. Like my parent, I can't get enough of #[tag from your main blog]." you could share them in a post, which would automatically add the tag #NFTumblcryptids to your post. and yes, people on the piss on the poor website freaked out about it because they thought they were real NFTs harming the environment. @tumblcryptidadoptioncenter is the official blog.

2022 - click-a-thon: when you clicked a light switch on your dashboard, a bunch of colourful things showed up, like a sponge you could move around, an "engagament meter", clickable buttons, and a “Summon Crab!” button, which would summon a crab when you clicked it. you could. the crabs, like horse friend, are still available in the tumblr store as of 2025. here's some screenshots. there were various ways to share your crab activities, which would all get tagged #april fools 2022. the prank was presented as a marketing technique created by Brick Whartley, a fictional businessman character created by tumblr, who (afaik) originated in a post on the official blog of the 2018 april fools prank, albeit originally in a different role. around this time he also started functioning as the mascot for tumblr's shop ( @emporium )

2023 - abstract reactions (emoji reacts): buttons were added to every post that allowed you to add emoji reactions, many of them based on tumblr inside jokes (horse as a reference to horse plinko/horse friend, vanilla for the vanilla extract meme, pikaman, bug for bug race, and brick whartley, who wasn't a meme but staff really wanted him to be). if one specific emoji was used a certain amount of times it would add an effect to the post, eg many cheese emoji reacts would cover the post in cheese. this was also attributed to Brick Whartley ("his" blog @brickwhartley also documented the day)

2024 - boop-o-meter: allowed you to “boop” other users who had opted in to the booping, like facebook’s poke feature back in the day. depending on how long you held the button, you would either boop, super boop, or evil boop. on the dashboard there was a counter for both how many times you had booped others and how many times others had booped you, as well as how many boops were given side-wide. when booping someone, an image of a cat paw appeared. you would get badges (which can still be used) for booping 1, 100 and 1000 times. if you got more than 999 boops, the counter would simply say “WOW”. this was brought back for halloween 2024 (as BOOp-o-meter. get it), with a ghost, skeleton and mummy paw. no official blog, but here's an official recap for april first from staff. i believe this was the only april fools prank that was mobile user friendly.

2025 - @fandom is running some polls, i guess

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Happy Hearth's Warming! Eee, you used Coppertop as our Rudolph, awesome!

Have a happy Hearth's Warming everypony!

Featuring from Tumblr: @ask-coppertop @leakypipes @dustygamma @pixiestickthealicorn and @heartsy-artsy-pony

With appearances from Bluesky: Steel Prism, Municorn, Raz and Shimmer Shell

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EEEEE, look at my happy little dork! Thanks!

Next up from here on Tumblr we have Dusty from @dustygamma and Bluesky gives us Municorn!

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Cutest heatsink!

Since copper's good as conducting and dissipating heat, does a Coppertop hug involve a toasty warm barrel, but cold hooves? Clearly this warrants testing, and isn't just an excuse I came up with when I saw you giving out a hug...

Oh! It does! But I can spread that heat through rest of me if I know I’m going to be giving someone a hug! So come here! Let me give you a hug!

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Here's a simple one for ya! Blue, sketch cross for eyes, simple as that.

A fun holiday giveaway both here and on BlueSky! Excited to start drawing our team! Good luck to everyone who enters! Entries will be accepted until the final pony is drawn! First entry drawn December 18th!

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What am I? I'm blue!

If you think I'm weird, wait till you see those ball anons, hopping around in their sunglasses. [Edit - Eeee, thanks for the high-res blue dork!]

I don't know why I'm in your forest, where even is here? Oh well, us anon ponies can be here one panel, gone the next!

@dustygamma: I don't know why I'm in your forest, where even is here? Oh well, us anon ponies can be here one panel, gone the next! Inuyasha: What the- What are you, some kind of demon? Why don't you have a face?!

[Edit - I'm a fool and forgot to add the high-res PNG at ALL]

(High-res PNG below the cut)

Sorry @dustygamma for the long wait on this. I am simply a fool and didn't mean to leave you out of the fun.

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*eats ur cheek*

I must recommend against eating any part of an anon, we can be quite toxic.

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What if I glued shut your butt?

I'd drink paint thinner to dissolve it, obviously.

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Happy 11th birthday, little blue thing.

Was a heck of a year.

These anonaponies scare me ._. ( sorry for flatcolour, I want to answer these questions before i go away tomorrow for a market day! )

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Wee, my little dork's 10 years old today!

These anonaponies scare me ._. ( sorry for flatcolour, I want to answer these questions before i go away tomorrow for a market day! )

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It’s been 9 years since my little dork fell out of that letterbox...  I still love him ta bits!

These anonaponies scare me ._. ( sorry for flatcolour, I want to answer these questions before i go away tomorrow for a market day! )

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Being friends with whoever's around is the pony way, right?  Whether or not someone’s still here doesn’t mean the memories of them weren’t important, or that you can’t make new memories with others!  Remember who’s been.  Remember who you are.  Remember you’re not alone! 

It’s nice to meet you all. ~ Charming

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*points randomly*  That direction!   …Or maybe I should go that way?  *points somewhere else*

Hi fellow blue horse! ... *aimlessly wanders off*

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Cousin?? 

Do you have any advice for drawing ponies?

using polygons & circles is the most advice I can give tbh. I'd spend my class time drawing ponies all the time when I was younger. All the fluid anatomy ponies have is really fun for me to draw without a sketch guide other than the head. and honestly drawing pony anatomy can be a really fun warm-up!

Here's old pony flippy art from 2015 tho 😭😭