# Google Mic Drop GMail - anyone see it?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mic-drop-gmail-anyone-see-it/750842
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 1, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mic-drop-gmail-anyone-see-it/750842 "2016-04-01T17:18:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mic-drop-gmail-anyone-see-it/750842/1 "2016-04-01T17:18:38Z")
It’s already been turned off. ☹ It would have been pretty cool.
Apparently a few people didn’t notice the different reply button and used it at work. Thats why we can’t have nice things. 🆒
Anyone actually see this working in GMail this morning?
[http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/02/technology/april-fools-undo-gmail-removes-its-mic-drop-feature.html?\_r=0](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/02/technology/april-fools-undo-gmail-removes-its-mic-drop-feature.html?_r=0)
The animated mic drop is in this article and its pretty neat.
> **[Google's Mic Drop April Fools spectacularly backfires](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3518917/Google-s-Mic-Drop-spectacularly-backfires-Firm-apologises-Gmail-April-Fools-caused-headaches-laughs.html)**
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> A prank which saw the California-based search giant introduce a new minion-based joke function to its email (pictured) has left users angry, and the firm has been forced to apologise.
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> An April Fools prank from Google has left users angry and left the search firm apologetic.
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> Google introduced a reply button which would send a reply all response in Gmail along with an animated GIF of a minion dropping a microphone.
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> Any replies coming back after the Mic Drop reply would then be hidden, but still accessible through the ‘all mail’ tab.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mic-drop-gmail-anyone-see-it/750842/2 "2016-04-01T17:27:20Z")
Apparently this was the main problem. The send joke button should have been far away from the normal one.
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> Many unsuspecting Gmail users were simply not in the mood for Minions. Since the Mic Drop button was placed a little too close to the Send button, users lamented their misfiring of the cartoon character when dealing with bosses and co-workers.
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mic-drop-gmail-anyone-see-it/750842/3 "2016-04-01T19:36:24Z")
I noticed it immediately after installing an add on, so I thought my browser was hijacked for a second.
I give it a 2/10, not Google’s best. It didn’t fool me, I just don’t get the joke, and even if it’s funny it only is for 5 seconds.
Google Maps just gives you a link to “take you to funky town.” Bah.
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### Author:  [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mic-drop-gmail-anyone-see-it/750842/4 "2016-04-01T19:44:07Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> Apparently this was the main problem. The send joke button should have been far away from the normal one.
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> > Many unsuspecting Gmail users were simply not in the mood for Minions. Since the Mic Drop button was placed a little too close to the Send button, users lamented their misfiring of the cartoon character when dealing with bosses and co-workers.
Are there actually that many people out there who use gmail addresses for business purposes? If I’m sending an email to my boss using my gmail account, it’s because what I’m sending is definitely inappropriate to be using the company email for.
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mic-drop-gmail-anyone-see-it/750842/5 "2016-04-02T20:23:21Z")
Absolutely there are, especially in the freelance arenas.
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mic-drop-gmail-anyone-see-it/750842/6 "2016-04-02T22:17:09Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#):
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> Are there actually that many people out there who use gmail addresses for business purposes? If I’m sending an email to my boss using my gmail account, it’s because what I’m sending is definitely inappropriate to be using the company email for.
Which isn’t what happened. According to reports, people sent resumes to potential future employers from their personal gmail accounts. Of course the initial hysteria was that they may have lost out on the job over this which would never happen because it was eventually a well known prank.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2016, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-mic-drop-gmail-anyone-see-it/750842/7 "2016-04-03T03:44:49Z")
> [@hajario](#):
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> Which isn’t what happened. According to reports, people sent resumes to potential future employers from their personal gmail accounts. Of course the initial hysteria was that they may have lost out on the job over this which would never happen because it was eventually a well known prank.
But the complaints also mention that the e-mail conversation was archived (what they actually said sounded something like it was irreversibly disappeared, which might just have been a mis-observation). So the prospective employer or whoever might have been trying to respond but the original sender was never seeing that, so thought the recipient was giving radio silence. And if the recipient was responding but the originator wasn’t seeing it, then the recipient might have also thought the originator had lost interest.
I also saw one tweet complaining that the regular “Send” button was doing the same thing. So there was some suspicion that Google’s prank was not only a Bad Idea, but also buggy as well.
ETA: I also saw one tweet that someone had sent a condolences message to a friend who had just lost a close relative, and this gag got attached to that.