Very Important - Please Read

[Rose]

Hello everyone this is Andy.

Everything is fine.

Nothing is ruined.

If you haven't already noticed, it appears YWO was hacked sometime last night. While the site still functions as it should, all of the threads have been tampered with, and your posts like appear like they were posted by someone else, and you might see posts you didn't make that have your next to them. Whoever hacked YWO was apparently after confusion as opposed to long-term damage.

To deal with this, we will be banning anybody that has a Pikachu as their avatar. Luckily, it seems that all of our "good" members have cookies as their avatar instead, so if you see cookies in your post, then you have nothing to worry about. If you want to double-check though, post in this thread and see if you're as delicious to this site as a pile of cookies.

It seems the site was also having problems counting posts and times thanked correctly; people were not getting credit for all of their posts, so I went back and counted them all myself. What you see if your true post count; what you saw yesterday wasn't accurate.

On a related note, my pet hamster escaped and has been posting all over the place. If you see him, remain calm, check his profile, and don't let him know you're onto him. Instead, send me a private message letting me know where you saw him, and we can enjoy some laughs at my hamster's expense before he catches on. Afterward, I shall delete his posts and possibly decide not to ban you.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Oh and yeah I'm gonna try to stop that hacker too.

That's the dealio.

[Rage]

This is Shaun's April fools?

Yeeahhh must be, when you log in your avatar turns to cookies. xD

[Majyk]

As far as I know, Shaun doesn't know how to do the coding for this type of thing. Maybe the hacker wanted to play a joke on us.

EDIT: Wtf, for a minute, my avatar and username were back to normal.

[Andy]

I am not Andy. But can you be sure? :)

[Faust]

You are Andy, to see who someone is just see their profile.

Ha! I ruined this April fools!

[Andy]

You are Andy, to see who someone is just see their profile.

Ha! I ruined this April fools!
Lies

[Lykaios]

Andy's just fixed profiles, that's all. He's a genius like that, see?

[lalodragon]

In related news, a worldwide server crash has disabled every internet connection except dial-up.
:P

EDIT: Whoot! Not only do I have cookies, I'm an admin!
RE-EDIT: It's gone now. :( And here I was hoping to mess with the site... :D

[Rouge]

interesting.

[Andy]

The Who's Online page is bugged too. I can't stalk people like this! :mad:

[Majyk]

Oh my gosh--I get back online after a four hour drive, and the Who's Online page is upside down! Jeez, haha. :laugh:

[Andy]

All the cool Pikachus are in the chatroom. Be there.

[Majyk]

I'm a cookie, not a Pikachu.

[Andy]

It's okay. You'll evolve into Pikachu.

[Majyk]

Whatever I do I'm still a pile of cookies, which are making me hungry.

I'm only a Pikachu if I'm not logged in. YWO hates me. ):

[Me & the World]

Oy! Could someone tell me what's going on? I thought my computer had a virus or something. If this is April Foolery, i didn't get the joke. Everybody's avatars are Pikachus! Has someone really been messing with my posts? Why has my name been changed? Why is my picture a bunch of cookies? Why am I an admin? Help!
:confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:

NO KIDDING I'M CONFUSED! Somebody had better do something.

[Iridescence]

Oy! Could someone tell me what's going on? I thought my computer had a virus or something. If this is April Foolery, i didn't get the joke. Everybody's avatars are Pikachus! Has someone really been messing with my posts? Why has my name been changed? Why is my picture a bunch of cookies? Why am I an admin? Help!
:confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:

I think MW's confused.

[Andy]

Oy! Could someone tell me what's going on? I thought my computer had a virus or something. If this is April Foolery, i didn't get the joke. Everybody's avatars are Pikachus! Has someone really been messing with my posts? Why has my name been changed? Why is my picture a bunch of cookies? Why am I an admin? Help!
:confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:

NO KIDDING I'M CONFUSED! Somebody had better do something.
If you're fooled/confused/worried, then the April Fool's joke is a success :hide:

[Majyk]

Oy! Could someone tell me what's going on? I thought my computer had a virus or something. If this is April Foolery, i didn't get the joke. Everybody's avatars are Pikachus! Has someone really been messing with my posts? Why has my name been changed? Why is my picture a bunch of cookies? Why am I an admin? Help!
:confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:

NO KIDDING I'M CONFUSED! Somebody had better do something.

Don't worry. Everything will go back to normal eventually. I should hope, at least. That upside down page is annoying me, haha. :P

[Alice Glitterhorn]

Oy! Could someone tell me what's going on? I thought my computer had a virus or something. If this is April Foolery, i didn't get the joke. Everybody's avatars are Pikachus! Has someone really been messing with my posts? Why has my name been changed? Why is my picture a bunch of cookies? Why am I an admin? Help!
:confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:

NO KIDDING I'M CONFUSED! Somebody had better do something.


It's really unnecessary to use all those confused faces in a row.

[Shaun]

I find it humorous that someone thought I had something to do with this. It was all the mod's ideas, folks. Seriously. They came up with it. They deserve all the credit. I just say "yeah, that would be awesome," and then Andy did it.

Edit: Who the hell put hamsters in my damned sig? And who ruined my avatar? WTF?

[Omar]

Bahahahaahahahahahaha that was genius!

But... *dramatic stare* you're not Shawn.

[Majyk]

Poor Shaun. Still Andy's pet hamster. :P

[Omar]

Oh hold on, looks like he is Shawn. I clicked his avatar and it linked me to Andy's profile, which is why I thought he was Andy but in disguise. My bad :P

[Majyk]

When you click his profile picture, it'll take you to Andy. If you click "view public profile" it'll take you to Shaun.

[Andy]

That's what you get for not posting yesterday, Shaun. :P I had your posts dressed up to contain hamsters which everyone except you would see. A lot of hard prank work for nothing...

Your old avatar is safe, btw.
http://www.youngwritersonline.net/customavatars/avatar4_3.jpg

[Jack]

But... *dramatic stare* you're not Shawn.

Oh hold on, looks like he is Shawn.

There's no God damn 'w'.

SHAUN

;)

[lostbookworm]

There's no God damn 'w'.

SHAUN

;)

Well, there's no 'aie' in Jack, but I'm still doing it.

JACKAIE!

;)

[Alice Glitterhorn]

I lyk hamsters. Can i hold shaun, plz.

[Rage]

Lols that awesome, any prank involving Pokemon is instant amazingness. :sarcasm:

[KythingToWrite]

At least you guys are more creative than my school friends. Honestly. I mean, my prank spotting talents aren't exactly awesome just before I receive my midterm results, are they? Of course I'll go to the teacher if she wants to confirm my marks. Stupid friends. At least YWO doesn't embarrass you in front of the whole staff room!