Today we bring you an article with which you can surprise your friends thanks to the different hidden emoticons which Google has established in Hangouts. From the appearance of a smiling emoji or congratulating you on your birthday to the incursion through our chat screen of a multitude of ponies of different colors, that surely both us and the person we are talking to get a laugh.
To use these emoticons we must enter a series of commands. If we write / shydino A small green dinosaur will appear at the bottom of our screen and it will stay with us until we retype the command. Continuing with strange but funny beings if we introduce / ponies A little pony appears to us walking through our chat, and if we indicate / ponystream A dozen ponies will appear near us, running nonstop across our screen.
We can also change the background color of the screen in which we are chatting, randomly, with the command / bikeshed the change will affect both us and the person we are talking to.
To activate the emojis we simply have to put expressions like «Happy Birthday""Hahahaha»Or«Woohoo»Appearing characters like the ones you can see in the following images:
These icons They are valid both in the web version and in the mobile version, except for dinosaur and Color change of the wallpaper, the latter will only be seen if we are connected from the computer. It is necessary to have the latest version of Hangouts installed to be able to see the hidden emoticons on the mobile.
Source: abcnews
They only work with a slash at the beginning, without spaces and with only capital letters.