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01/04/2020 | | | | | | This was the year that Coronavirus spread and fear was around everybody, so the administrator decided to raise the stakes by displaying digital virus codes on posts, comments, and profiles. This made profiles appear as if they had been compromised by a virus, which was somewhat frightful given how close social distances were at the time and how little movement there was. However, it was just a traditional April fool's joke.
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Looks like the link for the April Mob virus isn't updating, so here it is in case you forgot it. Here is one of
theymos posts for reference. But anyway, good job from you, man. I just want to say April Fools 2023 is fun, if we could collect bitcoin as easily as birds eat coins - that would be great. LOL

If you choose to see-as-evil acts which were clearly done in the spirit of fun & good faith, then you're creating demons for your personal living hell...
There is a rare worldwide shared cultural experience going on in the form of the pandemic and the resulting unprecedented social distancing policies. It's similar to a world war in terms of its widespread cultural significance. So this little game came to my mind to connect with it. As with several past bitcointalk.org April Fools things, it's more of a new/weird/fun way for people to interact with the forum and generate discussion, not a
joke as such. Certainly it wasn't meant to somehow poke fun at the many real tragedies created by the coronavirus situation; it was meant to
connect with the huge thing dominating the minds/lives of basically everyone on Earth.