That’s the Gmail Mic Drop “feature,” which allowed users to send a gif of a minion dropping a mic as a reply to an email. Sending the gif would then mute the conversation as well.

Gmail April Fools’ prank yanked after Minion mic drop GIFs wreak havoc on people’s lives. It's all fun and games until someone loses their job on April Fools' Day. By Ian Paul.

Google is in hot water with Gmail users after a relatively harmless April Fool’s Day prank went awry. Google added an option to include an animated GIF of a Minion dropping the mic—a cocky way ...

G mail’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 ...

Clicking it sends your message and a mic-dropping Minion GIF to the recipient, and stops their replies appearing in your inbox. 5 April Fool's Day pranks and tweets.

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.

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 ...

Google added a ‘send + mic drop’ button last night, that added a GIF of a Minion dropping a microphone to an email reply, before archiving the thread.

An illustrated version of Obama's mic drop at the end of the White House Correspondents Dinner speech has been named most popular GIF 2016. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...

After intense backlash, Google disabled their ‘mic drop’ April Fools’ joke that added an animated Minion GIF into emails — get the details ...