Don't change sticker icon in response to text

With the soft-release of stickers to those in Canada, a new icon has appeared between the GIF and emoji icons: the sticker icon. If you have any stickers, such as those that come free with Nitro, this icon will react when you type a message that starts with a name it recognizes as the name of a sticker you own. For example, if the first two letters of the message I'm typing are "hi", the icon changes to the sticker for "hi". This doesn't just happen with the actual word "hi", it also happens with any other word that starts with "hi". This can be very distracting when trying to type up a longer message, especially with that mini icon being animated by default. Please remove this, make it optional, or at the very least, don't have the sticker icon default to animated.

Kappatechy

01 November 2020 20:16

In addition to the above-mentioned behaviour on desktop, a sticker icon will replace the emoji icon on mobile if you start your message with text that is recognized as a sticker name. Unlike on desktop, the mobile version does not (at this time) have the option to not animate stickers either, so this icon will always animate. As someone with ADD, this is very distracting and annoying, and I would rather have no stickers at all than have the icon constantly drag my attention anyway whenever I start a sentence with the letter K.

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