Google's April Fool's gag for Gmail this year was an alternative send option named the Mic Drop. Through the feature, sent emails will include a GIF of Despicable Me Minion dropping a microphone, and ...

Throughout his eight years in office, President Obama has achieved many things, but today he eclipsed all of them when his illustrated mic drop GIF was named the most popular of 2016 by GIPHY. An ...

Pushing people’s buttons! Amid serious backlash, Google has disabled their disastrous “mic drop” April Fools’ joke button that added a GIF animation of a Minion to emails and muted all replies ...

Gmail "Mic Drop" didn't go down as well as Google hoped. Gmail “Mic Drop” didn’t go down as well as Google hoped. GIF: Giphy One of Google’s April Fools’ Day pranks was so unpopular with users that ...

"Well, it looks like we pranked ourselves this year." That's the beginning of the apology posted on Google's Official Gmail Blog Friday morning. Turns out, not everyone was enjoying their April Fools' ...

Google has acknowledged that one of its April Fools jokes backfired when it started causing real embarrassment to some Gmail users. It has now pulled the joke feature. Google added a ‘send + mic drop’ ...

Google has pulled a lot of pranks in its day, but this has got to be the worst one. The idea was called "Mic Drop:" a special send button in Gmail that would replace your signature with a Gif of one ...

LOS ANGELES — Throughout his eight years in office, President Obama has achieved many things, but today he eclipsed all of them when his illustrated mic drop GIF was named the most popular of 2016 by ...

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Throughout his eight years in office, President Obama has achieved many things, but today he eclipsed all of them when his illustrated mic drop GIF was named the most popular of 2016 by GIPHY. An ...