The “Minion mic drop” attached a Minions GIF to any email that was sent over Gmail, leading to a whole host of awkward situations (applying for a job with a Minions GIF is grounds for instant ...

Gmail’s April Fools’ prank this year enabled users to send Minion GIFs to their email chains with the click of a button. Sounds cute, right? But it went terribly wrong. The new feature Gmail ...

Lastly, Google came clean about a bug that would include the minion GIF even without pressing the mic drop option. If a user accidentally clicked the joke button within a new compose message with ...

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. “It looks like we pranked ...

Google has reversed one of its April Fools’ Day pranks after it caused a number Gmail users to unwittingly insert GIFs into business emails and other important communications. “Today ...

The company added a button to its email service that allowed users to fire out a minion GIF, a character from the animated film Despicable Me, which would drop a microphone and then mute responses ...

Universal Pictures via Google.com Universal Pictures via Google.com The company added a button to its email service that allowed users to fire out a minion GIF, a character from the animated film ...

Using it would reply to the email, archive it — and also add a GIF of a "Despicable Me" minion dropping a mic. "Email's great, but sometimes you just wanna hit the eject button," Google wrote in ...