Posted on 07/15/2021 8:12:39 AM PDT by dayglored
Microsoft wants 20,000 likes in return for Clippy, and it got them
Microsoft is threatening to bring back its annoying loveable Clippy character. The software giant claims it will replace the paperclip emoji in Microsoft Office with Clippy if the tweet below gets 20,000 likes. The tweet has already surpassed that number, so it seems Clippy could be about to return as a more innocent emoji — but Microsoft is being coy about what might happen next.
Born in Office 97, Clippy originally appeared as an assistant to offer help and tips for using Microsoft Office. You either loved or hated its Groucho eyebrows and persistence, and Microsoft eventually killed off Clippy in Office XP in 2001.
If this gets 20k likes, we’ll replace the paperclip emoji in Microsoft 365 with Clippy. pic.twitter.com/6T8ziboguC— Microsoft (@Microsoft) July 14, 2021
Wait and find out.— Microsoft (@Microsoft) July 14, 2021
The famous paperclip nearly made a return a couple of years ago, though. Some Microsoft employees briefly resurrected Clippy as animated stickers in Microsoft Teams, but the company’s “brand police” swooped in to shut the effort down. It was a brutal firing of the anthropomorphic paperclip, but it looks like Microsoft has now realized humans like to have fun while they’re entering data into spreadsheets or creating a PowerPoint presentation.
So will we finally see Clippy return to Microsoft Office? Microsoft is currently holding Clippy hostage behind a tweet that already has more than 30,000 likes, so we’ll have to wait and see. As every YouTuber puts it, hit that like button Verge readers and we’ll find out what happens.
Update July 14th, 4:15PM ET: Added that Microsoft’s tweet has already surpassed 30,000 likes and that the company is being cagey about if it will follow through on its promise to make Clippy an emoji.
LOL, excellent!
If they were Canarians, they’d call it Flippy. (Party on, Basil and Gonz)
LOL! Perfect.
CLIPPY JESUS!.........................
I choose “threaten to expose the Clintons.”
--- Language alert ---
Could be worse, could be Bonzi Buddy.
Secretly, Clippy is an evil AI that Bill Gates has been training for world domination for the last 25 years.
2 eyes speared on a paperclip like beads?!
Clippy was gay back in the ‘90s, I can’t imagine what it will be like in the 2020’s.
When you say things like that, you make Clippy angry. You wouldn’t like Clippy when he’s angry.
Lol, that’s what they should, have threatened to windows 7 holdover, to make them switch asap 😆
I will still keep 7 though.
Never could stand that aggravating little sob knocking on my screen
“Want to buy some Death Sticks?” “You don’t want to sell me Death Sticks,” “I don’t want to sell you Death Stick.” “You want to go home and rethink your life.” “I want to go home and rethink my life.”
Bang and out of that rethink, we have Clippy 2.0, where was a poison dart when we needed it?
Nooooooooooooo...................
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