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The funny thing about the passage of time is that it can make things that objectively sucked seem not so bad in hindsight. For instance, I somehow have fond memories of waking up at 5 am so I could dress in a sticky rain suit and pick tobacco from sodden fields as a teenager; and in a similar vein, Clippy appears to be enjoying a nostalgia-powered uptick in popularity. Microsoft recently released some blast-from-the-past backgrounds for Microsoft Teams that included a loving portrait of the mascot, and now it's threatening to bring its jaunty anthropomorphised stationary back for real.

The good news for Clippy haters is that it is not about to start shouting at you from the Windows 11 desktop—as far as I know, anyway. Please refer to the link below on what happened to Clippy.

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Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Andre Da Costa Volunteer Moderator. Starting with Office it was permanently removed. The company promised -- or " threatened ," as some tech publications put it -- that if it received 20, Likes, it would replace the paperclip emoji in Microsoft with Clippy.

Read More. Microsoft has been working on an emojis refresh for the past year, choosing 3D designs over 2D and opting to animate the majority of them. The move is in line with it's new design language, Fluent, which the company calls brighter, vibrant and more human. It's also adding five new emojis to capture the many moods and challenges of working from home: a "you're on mute" emoji, an image of someone multitasking with their arms going everywhere, a "business on top and pajamas on bottom" emoji, someone with a cat in front of the screen and a person holding a baby.

Emojis are often used as tools to lighten or intensify tones, express playfulness or enhance expression. A new Adobe study published on Thursday revealed that "laugh out loud" is the world's most popular emoji, followed by the "thumbs up" and "red heart" emojis.

Microsoft's new emoji will roll out in the coming months, starting with video tool Flipgrid in August, and other platforms, such as Teams and Windows, during the holiday season. See our ethics statement. Microsoft is bringing Clippy back to Microsoft Teams, after first resurrecting the annoying paperclip two years ago and then killing it off after a few days.

A sticker pack will be available in Microsoft Teams soon that includes lots of different versions of the anthropomorphic paperclip. MicrosoftTeams stickers: game over. Clippy pic. The new retro sticker pack looks a lot like the same stickers that a team of Microsoft employees created for Teams more than two years ago.

Microsoft had been reluctant to embrace Clippy as a meme in its Office or Windows products until earlier this year. Clippy has now returned to replace the standard paperclip emoji in Windows 11 , been part of new Teams backgrounds , and now stars in a sticker pack in Microsoft Teams. Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week.