April Fools' Day

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This is a list of practical jokes and hoaxes by Tokiponists and Toki Pona communities that have occurred on April Fools' Day (1 April).

2009

• jan Sonja coined kijetesantakalu as a joke word. This also led to Alexandre Baudry coining sutopatikuna in response, and to April Fools' Day sometimes being associated with kijetesantakalu, as is evident in later practical jokes.

2021

• jan Sonja created nasin kijetesantakalu, a grammar allowing for all possible word orders permuting subject, verb, and object.
• lipu tenpo published issue nanpa ala, which as the title suggests contains nothing but the front cover.

2022

• Several Toki Pona communities participated in Reddit's r/place social experiment, collaborating to create pixel art on a large public canvas.
• lipu tenpo published issue nanpa kijetesantakalu, mostly consisting of repetitions of the word kijetesantakalu.

2023

• lipu tenpo published issue kati tiki tu lili, written in the hyperminimal tokiponido tuki tiki.
• ma pona pi toki pona rebranded to a Lojban server named jbobau jbogu'e (lit.literal translation 'Lojban Lojbanistan').
• jan Kekan San published the first episode of a supposed "Learn Esperanto!" video series, teaching only the word herbevitisto ("chronically online", lit.literal translation 'occupational grass avoider'; see "touch grass"). For the video, he changed his avatar to a green Power Moon with a necktie, created by jan Tekinowi.

2024

"Big Otter"

• jan Kekan San published the video "tomo pi walo loje", a shaggy-dog story about three people who each stay at a pink house full of pink objects after their vehicles break down.
• ma pona pi toki pona rebranded to a tuki tiki server named kiku tiki tuki tiki.
• sona pona:
  • The main page ran a banner claiming that only articles about Láadan were allowed on the wiki and that "Big Otter is watching", referencing the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
  • The pronunciation of yupekosi was listed as [xɬpʼχʷɬtʰɬpʰɬːskʷʰt͡sʼupekosi].
• The horror anthology zine lipu monsuta released kijetesantakalu monsuta, a special issue with humorous and absurd horror stories.
• jan Ke Tami published the video "yupekosi: No one knows how to pronounce the y", a compilation of different speakers finding different and creative ways to pronounce the "y" in yupekosi.
• lipu tenpo published issue nanpa lili, a small foldable zine with articles about small things.

References

English Wikipedia has an article on
April Fools' Day.