Take a trip backward in time with me to April Fools’ Day 2016, when Google decided to prank its users with a terrible new feature: an animated GIF featuring those yellow Tic Tacs we all know and ...

It was designed to end email chains by attaching a gif of an angry minion dropping a microphone, and effectively shutting down the conversation. "Everyone will get your message, but that's the ...

Only in Silicon Valley would there be a “GIF keyboard of choice,” but that appears to be the case with two-year-old startup Riffsy, a business that may, one day, find a way to squeeze some ...

Google has retracted its ‘mic drop’ option from Gmail after complaints from its users, just a few hours after the feature was added for April Fools’ day.

Here's how the mic-drop GIF can look in a wildly inappropriate email: —Andy Baio (@waxpancake) April 1, 2016 One user, Abdus Salam, wrote that he had lost out on a potential job because of the GIF.