Google goes for the glitter with disco-ball icons: ‘Are y’all sure you still want this?’

So bad, it’s good? Google connected Friday joined successful the disco shot icon amusive taking spot connected location screens everywhere. After Spotify’s temporary caller disco shot app icon, released to observe the company’s 20th anniversary, drew extensive online backlash (and a spot of praise for those who similar a small kitsch!), Google decided to get successful connected the gag and rolled retired a customized acceptable of Android app icons sporting a akin disco shot theme.

On X, Android ecosystem caput Sameer Samat posted, “Your privation is our command. Disco icons disposable connected Pixel arsenic of today…Are y’all definite you inactive privation this?”

His station included a screenshot of a Pixel telephone afloat decked retired with sparkly, disco-ball-inspired icons, which looks conscionable arsenic unspeakable (incredible??) arsenic it sounds.

The caller icons are disposable done Pixel’s comparatively caller customized icons feature, which allows users to take from antithetic AI-generated styles for their app icons. Before this, users could lone customize their icons by changing their colors to lucifer the phone’s wallpaper and theme.

Image Credits:screenshot of Pixel icons by TechCrunch

The customized icons diagnostic rolled retired successful March’s Pixel Drop — Google’s word for its periodic diagnostic updates to Pixel phones — introducing app icon templates similar a hand-drawn “Scribbles” aesthetic, a golden look called “Treasure,” a colorful, painted benignant dubbed “Easel,” and others.

Earlier this week, Samat had jokingly tweeted, “Should we marque this icon battalion hap connected Android?” alongside a Chrome icon turned into a disco ball.

Silly arsenic it whitethorn be, Google really made it happen.

Many radical had complained astir the Spotify icon, calling it ugly, prompting the institution to remind them it was conscionable a impermanent sitch. “Alright, we cognize glitter is not for everyone,” the streamer wrote.

Google, seemingly, disagrees. As off-brand arsenic its disco-themed icons are, there’s besides thing whimsical astir turning your full homescreen into a sparkly scenery of small apps. (And, successful lawsuit you missed it, the Zillennials are truly into whimsy close now, The New York Times reports, describing their “playful effect to a hard world.”)

Upon seeing Google’s release, X idiosyncratic and erstwhile Pixly co-founder Race Johsnon quipped, “When your location surface gets vessel service.” Said another, “Omg it’s awful. I’ll instrumentality it!”