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April 1, 2013 was an April Fools' Day that fell on a Monday. In the Pokémon fandom, some websites pulled hoaxes on gullible fans.

Bulbanews posted an article about Team Plasma attempting a Bulbagarden takeover.
Bulbagarden forums were permanently changed to become Bananagarden Forums, which was used in 2007, with the forum taking on an appearance based on bananas. Along with that:
- Some forum sections were replaced with non-Pokémon related sections, and some were replaced with sections about the Advanced Generation series and speculation on Red and Blue remakes.
- Team Aqua and Team Magma used the Video Games section to recruit members for their cause.
- The Fun&Games section was announced to be closing.

Psypoke featured a Slowpoke crawling across the bottom of the site and forums with the message "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" on April 2, 2013 after not running a prank on April 1.
Pokécommunity made all of their user's posts have a random Pokémon for their Avatar, Username and the Custom User Title to that of the random Pokémon. The Pokémon would change upon every time the page is refreshed, and the Pokemon may become a Shiny Pokémon, signified by a sparkling effect on the Username and the Avatar will show a Pokémon's shiny sprite. Also, the Fifth Generation Gaming Moderator 'Forever' claimed that she would be leaving the site, but was later revealed to be a prank.
Pokémon Database displayed every image on the website upside-down.
Project Pokémon changed the forum name to Project Digimon.

Pokémon posted on the official Facebook fanpage news that revealed several colleges would be offering courses in Pokémon mastery.

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 ** Some forum sections were replaced with non-Pokémon related sections, and some were replaced with sections about the {{series|Advanced Generation}} and speculation on {{game3|FireRed and LeafGreen|Red and Blue remakes|s}}.
 ** [[Team Aqua]] and [[Team Magma]] used the Video Games section to recruit members for their cause.
-** It was said that the Fun&Games section would be closing.
+** The Fun&Games section was announced to be closing.
 ====Other fan sites====
 * [[Psypoke]] featured a Slowpoke crawling across the bottom of the site and forums with the message "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" on April 2, 2013 after not running a prank on April 1.
 * [[Pokécommunity]] made all of their user's posts have a random Pokémon for their Avatar, Username and the Custom User Title to that of the random Pokémon. The Pokémon would change upon every time the page is refreshed, and the Pokemon may become a [[Shiny Pokémon]], signified by a sparkling effect on the Username and the Avatar will show a Pokémon's shiny sprite. Also, the Fifth Generation Gaming Moderator 'Forever' claimed that she would be leaving the site, but was later revealed to be a prank.
-* [http://pokemondb.net/ Pokémon Database] had every image in the website upside-down.
+* [http://pokemondb.net/ Pokémon Database] displayed every image on the website upside-down.
 * [http://projectpokemon.org/forums/ Project Pokémon] changed the forum name to Project Digimon.