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Deal of the Day!

Gmail Shelfie: share your selfie as your friend's Gmail theme

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By Jerry Hildenbrand | Mar 31 2014 | 3:20 pm  | 18 Comments

Gmail Shelfie: share your selfie as your friend's Gmail theme

Google is celebrating Gmail's birthday and April Fool's today. They've announced "Shelfies" as a way to share your selfies (SHare sELFIES — get it?) through the Gmail interface.

Billed as a replacement theme that will be rolling out in the next few hours, Google also tells us that self-portraits are much more popular than pirate themes. They even have a chart to prove it.

As far as April Fool's pranks go, this one is pretty lame. If this is something that really ends up rolling out, it's even lamer.

Source: [Gmail blog]

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There are 18 comments

Illustrator Joe says:

Mmmm Katy Perry. O hey Kitty Purry!

MERCDROID says:

Lmao +1

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Junior chuxx says:

who's the hottie?

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BldyIdt says:

Are you serious?

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mathiasjk says:

Well, we might never really find out if it's Katy Perry or Zooey Deschanel.

cole21771 says:

It says in the email, it says Katy Perry as the subject and a part of the message is puuuurrrrr.

xaml says:

April's fool nonsense aside, the trend towards blindly admiring some person who happens to have been outfitted with coincidental looks while ignoring their mindset really is appalling.

BldyIdt says:

Wat? Who said I admired her? Does the fact that I know what she looks like make me a hardcore fan? She can't even sing.

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mwara244 says:

Actually it took me a minute to figure it out too, with the lack of make-up it is hard to tell.

Zoey and Katy are almost twins by their face, except zoey can sing AND Act, katy couldn't act to save her life.

If you Google Zoey with No Bangs you won't even recognize her.

leanhducvt says:

Your mom ?

MERCDROID says:

Lol, I knew someone would say it.

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judasmachine says:

I would so have fun trolling my friends with this. Please let us do it for the day...

Unicorn Rancher says:

nice pussy

HackedBotato says:

This is the message when sharing through G+:
"I'm using a custom theme in Gmail on the Web and I think you'll like it too! Check it out on your desktop or laptop. #gmailthemes"
I think it's going to be called "Gmail Custom Themes" instead.

codehut says:

Haha I love these!

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Uglyfido says:

I get that it's a joke, but I'm actually kind of diggin' the Shelfies (though the name is terrible). Now I'm starting to hope that it stays a gmail feature.

Simos Katsiaris says:

Come on, the Katy Perry selfie was great and it was nice that it was actually dynamic, i really want a dynamic theme for gmail, it gives it life

Funkpod says:

i don't think this is a joke?