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Just updated to Android Oreo...what happened to the Emojis?!?!?
- Thread starter falconxcrunner09
- Start date
Don't make me defend these new emoji.
Dangansona
Member
It's a fucking disgrace. I'm still upset about it.
ghostofsparta
Member
the blobs were GOAT. They were cute, quirky, and genderless. Someone at Google is smoking crack
Aztechnology
Member
We have Bitmoji's now
Katzenjammer
Member
How come there still isn't an easy way of choosing whichever emoji set we want? After this change only facebook messenger will have any decent ones left. Forced crappy emojis are my number one reason for not using WhatsApp unless I absolutely have to.
Shadow Puppetry
Member
If you're on unlocked bootloader Pixel, you could go back to Nougat I believe.
they were so full of characterThey were the best.
DontTouchMe
Member
I ain't updating
The Illiterati
Member
You know we aren't all gender neutral yellow people right? So those fighting for neutral blobs weren't any better represented than literally every other minority. So I don't see why it matters if emoticons have genders and race.
They were the best.
I've got these on Slack at work and they own <3
The only good emoji that ever existed.
Apple killed an art form.
Fox Mulder
Member
Yes it is. They were simple yellow blobs and already gender and race neutral. Having 12 wizard emojis to cover all races and genders is a step back in design and clutters everything.
I'm not a racist asshole or anything.
Souldriver
Member
No, emoji's are all getting worse because for reasons of consistency they all mimic Apple's/whatsapps fugly ones.
If we need to have more generic emoji's, I vastly prefer the Facebook messenger ones than the iOS ones for example. There's still some personality and cuteness in them.
For example, you can basically only use the iOS animal emoji's to mean the animal itself. The frog means you're talking about frogs. However, the frog in Facebook messenger for example, seems to smile in a naughty way, so you can use it to convey an emotion in a sentence that has nothing to do with frogs. And the Google emoji's were similar to that. They had character and were multifunctional to make a conversation more colorful.
Does any better emoji exist?
No, it does not.
One uses only two colors and looks good in all sizes.
The other uses gradients, shadows, highlights, faux emboss, coloured borders (the brows alone has more colors and effects than the whole blob emoji) to express exactly the same thing.
Yeah, iOS emoticons are shit. And it gets even worse when we start comparing items or animals, that are overly realistic and too detailed on iOS.
Seriously, why do people like this shit? There is so much unnecessary crap going on in that icon, and half of it clashes with the other half.
The blobs look like someone actually thought about what they were going to do before they started doing it. There's a particular style to them that remains consistent throughout the whole set, and they keep the overall visual simple, as it ought to be.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Wow, these new ones really do look like 3rd grade copy of iOS ones. Blobs were at least ... not a 3rd grade copy of an established standard.
The shitty iOS emoji are the reason Android's look shit now.
All about "consistency", fuck that I want blobs back.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Look at that smug motherfucker.I want my beautiful blobs back. ��
AND LOOK WHAT THEYVE DONE TO THE ANIMALS!!! MY GOOD SWEET TURTLE FRIEND IS DEAD!!! ☠️
🙄
l2ounD
Member
I want my beautiful blobs back. ��
AND LOOK WHAT THEYVE DONE TO THE ANIMALS!!! MY GOOD SWEET TURTLE FRIEND IS DEAD!!! ☠️
I feel sad for the artist who had to knowingly make an inferior turtle to appease their boss
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
I want my beautiful blobs back. ��
AND LOOK WHAT THEYVE DONE TO THE ANIMALS!!! MY GOOD SWEET TURTLE FRIEND IS DEAD!!! ☠️
Fucking Millennials, wake up sheeply people!!
Earthpainting
Member
What the actual fuck. The loss of the blobbies was bad enough, but this is unacceptable.I want my beautiful blobs back. ��
AND LOOK WHAT THEYVE DONE TO THE ANIMALS!!! MY GOOD SWEET TURTLE FRIEND IS DEAD!!! ☠️
bean breath
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RoadHazard
Gold Member
They ruined them.
I sort of understand the reasoning (emoji should look consistent across devices and OSs), but man do they look like shit. Really miss the blobs.
I sort of understand the reasoning (emoji should look consistent across devices and OSs), but man do they look like shit. Really miss the blobs.
The whole Oreo update seems to be a bit of a visual mess honestly (on a 5X).
The icons, a consistent Google weakness, are just all over the place now. Some of the stock icons are round, some are square or rounded rectangles, some are floating icons, some are floating in a blank rectangle. The clock (ultimate example of Google icon WTF) is now a blue circle on a dark gray rectangle... It's a mess.
The shade is also much less readable I find, with color shading removed - it's all bright white now. Plus they properly killed night mode
Some things are material design, some are flat, some do their own thing. Color schemes are all over too.
And finally they decide to give up their one truly creative design achievement in their emojis.. sigh.
I miss Windows phone 8.1 so much.
The icons, a consistent Google weakness, are just all over the place now. Some of the stock icons are round, some are square or rounded rectangles, some are floating icons, some are floating in a blank rectangle. The clock (ultimate example of Google icon WTF) is now a blue circle on a dark gray rectangle... It's a mess.
The shade is also much less readable I find, with color shading removed - it's all bright white now. Plus they properly killed night mode
Some things are material design, some are flat, some do their own thing. Color schemes are all over too.
And finally they decide to give up their one truly creative design achievement in their emojis.. sigh.
I miss Windows phone 8.1 so much.
bort
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Dorsal Axe
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Pretty much all of the UI changes in Oreo are straight-up regressions. Take ambient display for example: before it was basically just a black and white version of the lock screen, displaying full notification information. In Oreo, it just shows the time and a bunch of tiny meaningless glyphs underneath. Utterly pointless now.The whole Oreo update seems to be a bit of a visual mess honestly (on a 5X).
The icons, a consistent Google weakness, are just all over the place now. Some of the stock icons are round, some are square or rounded rectangles, some are floating icons, some are floating in a blank rectangle. The clock (ultimate example of Google icon WTF) is now a blue circle on a dark gray rectangle... It's a mess.
The shade is also much less readable I find, with color shading removed - it's all bright white now. Plus they properly killed night mode
Some things are material design, some are flat, some do their own thing. Color schemes are all over too.
And finally they decide to give up their one truly creative design achievement in their emojis.. sigh.
I miss Windows phone 8.1 so much.
Ended up downgrading until someone fixes all of this shit.
Princess Viola
Member
The Android blob emojis are literally the only type of emoji I enjoy.
There's just something so doofy and silly about them.
There's just something so doofy and silly about them.
SciencePilot
Member
Blobs were the best I will miss them forever.
I use Textra for my SMS app because it allows you to set the emoji, so I set them to the blobs.
I really just wish Android would let you set the emoji on the system level. You can do it so easily if you have root. Too bad root is harder to do these days.
I use Textra for my SMS app because it allows you to set the emoji, so I set them to the blobs.
I really just wish Android would let you set the emoji on the system level. You can do it so easily if you have root. Too bad root is harder to do these days.
Dangansona
Member
I'm still holding out hope there is some way to convince them to revert back to the blobs.
Nikodemos
Member
The iOS emoji is overdesigned, overcomplex, and ultimately soulless.
Y'know, it kinda fits the platform....
Adam_Roman
Member
I liked the LG emojis on my G4 the most, but the flat ones in Discord are good too. Blobs were alright.
I really dislike the current iteratìon on Whatsapp/Apple, to the poin where I often just use letters. We basically only use Whatsapp here so I'll have to stick with those. But these new android ones are probably even worse.
The best scenario would be the ability to pick and send smileys from several different sets (and the receiver seeing the one you sent), surely that would be possible with todays tech...
The best scenario would be the ability to pick and send smileys from several different sets (and the receiver seeing the one you sent), surely that would be possible with todays tech...
They were too busy trying to ditch the blob they didn't think about making an attractive looking set of emojis - or one consistent with the flat design of their entire UI
https://medium.com/google-design/redesigning-android-emoji-cb22e3b51cc6
https://medium.com/google-design/redesigning-android-emoji-cb22e3b51cc6
Aarglefarg
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Shadax the wizard
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I thought android was customizable?