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.

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 ...

Google has abruptly killed off one of its April Fool’s Day “jokes” after it caused outrage online, with multiple people claiming that it lost them their jobs. The premise of the joke was simple. In ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...