The company added a “mic drop” button in its email service that allowed users to fire off a GIF of a Minion — a character from the animated film “Despicable Me” — that would drop a ...

The new feature Gmail installed Thursday was called “Mic Drop.” When users were sick ... send button that would send a GIF of a yellow Minion dropping a microphone, and then would not receive ...

In Gmail, next to the standard "Reply" button, Google added a "Mic drop" button. Using it would reply to the email, archive it — and also add a GIF of a "Despicable Me" minion dropping a mic.

So instead of a Send + archive button, users saw a Send and drop the mic button. Now, to be fair, Google put the button in a different spot than the Send and archive button and displayed a pop-up ...

Gmail users woke up Friday morning to find an option to send a "Mic Drop" response to email threads that sent an animated gif showing a minion character from the "Despicable Me" franchise dropping ...

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 ...

The new Gmail Mic Drop button, which sits next to the normal send button, ends an email thread forever by muting all future replies to the sender, and firing off a gif of a minion "mic dropping ...

"Thanks to Mic Drop I just lost my job." The forum is flooded with users who found the prank to be a gateway to unemployment or who unwittingly attached a Minion mic drop in an email with a ...

Google's April Fools' Day prank for Gmail backfired in spectacular style today after users claimed that it caused them to inadvertently offend friends and family—and in some cases led to lost ...

On Friday, Google announced “Gmail Mic Drop,” a new option on the send button that attaches to your email a minion from the “Despicable Me” movies dressed in royal garb and dropping a mic.

The Gmail Help Forum on Thursday was soon populated by angry users who say they unintentionally attached a minion dropping a ... saying that due to a bug, the mic drop "inadvertently caused ...

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 ...