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 ...

If GIFs are for real — which people are certainly betting on — the money will come. Enjoy the Minions while you can. This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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.