React with emojis and GIFs#

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Emojis and GIFs are small, digital images, animated images, or icons you can use to communicate or express concepts such as emotions, humor, and physical gestures in your messages.

Quick emoji reactions#

You can react with up to 50 emojis per message. Recently used emojis are sorted based on how often you’ve used them.

Hover over a message to select a recently used emoji.

React to messages quickly by selecting one of your most recently used emojis.

Include emojis and GIFs in messages#

Select the Smile icon Use the Smile icon to add emojis to your message. inside the Fangout message input box to open the emoji and GIF picker.

Select an emoji from the Emojis tab, or switch to the GIFs tab to search for a GIF.

You can also specify emojis based on their name. Type : followed by at least two characters of the word describing the emoji. This opens an emoji autocomplete. Descriptions include skin tone details for people-based emojis, where supported.

Emoji autocomplete

Manage emojis#

Using Fangout in a web browser or the desktop app, you can select recently used emojis, select a default skin tone for people-based emojis.

Select default skin tone#

Select the Skin tone icon in the top right corner of the emoji picker to specify the skin tone you prefer to use for people-based emojis by default. You can select an alternate skin tone at any time.

Select a default skin tone preference for people-based emojis.