A ton of things happened at Google I/O, but somehow the biggest news from last week was never even mentioned onstage: the latest version of Android will kill the blob-style emoji and replace them ...

Transforming the blob’s shape, color, and meaning, was a lengthy process that started, arguably, the moment Google’s blob emoji was born.

Who doesn’t love a good Google blob? From 2013-2017, these doughy emoji served a special role in the digital universe. They represented humans in the form ...

The Android blob lives! Kind of. For those not in the know, Android O is replacing Google’s classic blob emoji with more generic-looking emoji. A lot of people are not happy about that. Google ...

But Google made a huge mistake by killing its blob emoji and replacing them with these safer, cookie-cutter emojis, which you can see below.

If you need your blob fix moving forward, Google suggests downloading an Allo sticker pack that will allow you to keep using the old emoji inside the messaging app — but only there. Allo?

Almost a year since the death of Google's beloved blob emojis the comapny has raised them from the dead as a new animated sticker pack.

This morning Google revealed that they'd brought back their Blob Emoji set – but not as emoji proper. Instead, "blobs" or Android emoji will return as part of several Android apps, as stickers.

Google is finally admitting defeat, and has redesigned its default emoji to look a little more recognisable, according to Fast Company. "We're doing a full redesign of the emoji set," Gus Fonts ...

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your taste), this means that instead of the blob emoji that stood out compared to other company’s characters, stock Android’s emojis look more ...