Teams - Revert to Classic Emojis

Anonymous
2022-05-27T15:38:41+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2023-02-17T00:47:53+00:00

    Counting the various splits to this question, I'm seeing around 50,000 votes against the new emoji's. And that's BEFORE Microsoft started blocking the voting. To each his own - agreed.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-02-13T23:06:49+00:00

    Isn't it the point that they look, "silly".

    There's a difference between looking cartoonish and clearly expressing an emotion, and looking muddy and like every "guy" has a black eye as the most prominent "emotion" being expressed.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-02-13T22:47:41+00:00

    Except they didn’t get shut down. They were heavily rebuffed, and chose to ignore the outcry.

    They’re playing the 800lb gorilla card: We’re Microsoft, we don’t make mistakes and we don’t admit failures. You will accept what we do, though you’re welcome to complain all you want. We’ll just reorganize your complaints and turn off the voting so it doesn’t affect our stats.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-12-12T16:15:14+00:00

    Whoa whoa how is this not getting more love? I wish I could pin this post. Thank you so much...

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-10-28T16:43:57+00:00

    Although "cringe" is technically an emotion also, I think the goal of having emojis is to convey a wider variety of emotions than just this one.

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