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Greetings!
Microsoft Teams recently rolled out the Microsoft Fluent emoji style in Teams. This change altered all emojis and reactions across the platform and made them look incredibly displeasurable and unusual. In a business environment, I would venture to say the updated emojis are unusable due to the fact that they are so silly (for lack of a better word). I have thus far been unable to revert the emojis back to the way they were before this update; however, I would like to do this, as would my team. Is there any way to revert the emojis back to the way they were before this Microsoft Fluent emoji style update?
Thanks for any insight!
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I can't believe this has happened - what a big step back! Emojis should be getting more expressive - not less. These emojis go back donkeys years. Not good.
Your new emojis to me feel unprofessional and embarrassing. Please bring back the older emojis.
I did find this item, where you can vote to have the older emojis restored: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/f1676405-fee7-ec11-a81b-000d3a03dba2
Please revert or give option to select witch pack of emoticons we can use
I have one colleague, out of many, who also likes the new emojis. I have to respect that.
As someone whose vision is declining, I need higher contrast and these, unless enlarged look like blobs to me without much definition for eyes, mouth, etc. I wonder how they render in gray scale; I'm not color blind, but a certain percentage of the population is and I don't think these meet accessibility guidelines. The crisper lines and images that have higher contrast are easier for me to discern (especially when tiny).
I respect that you and one of my colleagues like them. Obviously the person who created them likes them and Microsoft apparently likes them, as well. I don't like to look at them or use them. I only use the thumbs up. Of course, when I told my colleague I thought the color in the new emoji smiley face looks like a mouth full of blood, she reacted to the comment with the mouth-open full of blood-looking smiley face. LOL. Anyway, we all have more important things to focus on, but thank you for your feedback. It's good to hear other opinions.