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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, for one, really appreciate the new emojis. I finally feel like I can effectively communicate my emotions to all the 4-7 year old's that I correspond over Teams with.
Brava to you Microsoft, for keeping the Baby Shark animators in your employ. 
I have not found 1 person who likes these fluent emojis. And judging from the thread nobody does.
Keep in mind that people talk more about what they don't like than about what they do like. I don't think I've ever started a feedback thread to tell a software company that I have absolutely no issues with their product. :P So we have sampling bias: Those who post here or who talk about the emojis probably don't like them, or they would spend their time thinking about something else instead.
I'm seeing a lot of vitriol in this thread, but I don't think it's accomplishing much.
Think about the situation from Microsoft's perspective. Change is expensive. We're not competing for their attention just with those who actively enjoy the new emoji, but also with those who view them ambivalently. And Microsoft has a lot of customers.
Further, anyone who is this angry is probably going to hate Microsoft whether they change the emojis back or not. Microsoft probably doesn't see you as profitable to win over. Catering to those who hate your product is a very bad idea.
Beyond that, Microsoft has stated ideological reasons for the change, and people are willing to undergo cost to promote ideas. They probably view us as ideological opponents since we're opposing their efforts. They will change the emoji back only if they decide not to promote "emotional honesty and playfulness" (by their definition), decide that the new emojis are an ineffective means of doing so, or see such huge potential financial loss that they decide to sacrifice their ideals for money.
And the very fact that we're complaining indicates that we probably can't just switch to Slack or we would have done so already and moved on with our lives.
I very much sympathize. The current Teams emoji feel like SnapChat. But if you hate them that much, then vote with your money and use a different program. You don't have much power to change Microsoft's mind (and raging probably diminishes that power unless you can convince others by doing so). Improve your own lifestyle instead. If you can't switch off Teams, you're pretty much powerless. Either deal with it or learn to communicate without emoji. Leave feedback, sure, but don't give yourself a heart attack. Communicate and prioritize for your best lifestyle. Change what you can change rather than taking responsibility for the decisions of others.
My sampling was not just from the thread. Colleagues and coworkers who also use Teams and are not on this thread same viewpoint. So the sampling in this thread pretty much matches others outside of the thread.
And Microsoft: Please note how the use of one of the new Teams emoji would have absolutely killed the mood of the above post. Please facilitate communication rather than limiting it. Not everything can be said in a playful manner.