My emojis started spinning in Google Messages beta today - eviltoast

I guess GIFs aren’t supported but starting today, when I send an emoji in Google Messages (beta) it continuously spins around and bounces. I’m not sure how I feel about that.

EDIT: Looks like there is a website that details all the animations. https://googlefonts.github.io/noto-emoji-animation/

  • sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Everything Google has done with emojis after the original version of the blobmojis has been obnoxious and weird

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        1 year ago

        My wife and I fell in love over the blobs. I keep screenshots of them on my phone so I can text her using them to this today. It’s clunky, but they’re exactly the ones I want to use sometimes.

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            1 year ago

            Oh wow, I did not know that! They don’t seem to be the animated versions that I’m a little more familiar with. That was years ago and I don’t remember exactly how I produced these.

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      1 year ago

      The period of time where they completely ruined the turtle emoji after killing the blobs was the emoji dark ages. At least they finally fixed it.