Teams - Revert to Classic Emojis

My Teams was updated with the Fluent emojis today. They are much too childish looking for a work environment. They look like they were designed to entertain toddlers! I feel like I'm representing myself as a child when I use them. Also, the 3D effect is far too dramatic. When all the rest of the Teams window is virtually flat and the text I am reading is flat, the sudden 3D pop-out effect of the Fluent emojis causes my eyes to lose focus and disrupts the flow of my usage. Please bring back the old emojis!

The new emojis are creepy and inappropriate for a business environment. I used to enjoy using the emojis for a quick response but I refuse to use these

To reflect on the points made in the initial post a bit, the silliness and displeasurable appearance aren't going down well even in the games studio I work at. We're far less able to be expressive in our messages with these, they don't confer the emotions intended nearly as well as the old ones did (Not that they were by any means perfect either!) and they're generally quite a lot harder to read, in part due to the excessive animation at a small scale and due to the fact that often when they finish animating they blink in and out of existence before settling in their unanimated state.

They're not fit for purpose for communication, emotional display or tonality in a workplace, even one as casual as ours where we value the fun and playfulness that the older emotes were providing. I'm not sure they'd be good for these outside of the workplace, either.

The clean icon-like nature of the older emoticons were perfect for their namesake by comparison, 'emote - icons'. These are simply harder to use while also managing to be uncomfortable for many. An option for the old emotes would definitely be preferable.

I'm turning on reduced animations to see if that assists with the more general disruption that blinking emotes brings, but a way of deactivating automatic emote conversion on both the sender end and the receiver end would be beneficial overall, imo.

Cannot disagree with you more on this unfortunately . . .

A corporation forcing their constituents to endure the pain of a gaudy idea that was passed through in an unavoidable update with no way to revert, no option to choose is actually Cyber Bullying, and their entire user platform is the victim. A corporation cannot be a victim in most cases . . . this is one of them. . . Subverting an entire user base with a Draconian change with no way out. . . that's what a bully would do if they had the power. . . "Our will or bust"

Are you kidding?

Awful design, aaawwwfffuuulll!!!!!!

Bring back the old emojis!!!