This isn't the only public balls-up by the messaging platform in recent times. They proved exactly as difficult to censor on Moments, and in retrospect, it raises the question as to why Tencent thought that allow stickers on the relatively public forum of Moments would be a good idea in the first place. Pornographic stickers have long been the quarry of WeChat group message censors, but as they contain neither keywords or phrases, they are difficult to censor via the usual means and continue to be shared and used in private groups. While no official reason for the recall has been given, it might as well have been this: "Porn. Yet almost as abruptly as it was introduced, the feature was recalled. The move brought the nature of public comments in line with the language of their private chats: after all, WeChat users have long relied upon the strange non-language of gifs – what you get when you blitz decades of our post-modern Internet culture into a confusing cultural smoothie and shoot it back out as tiny video fragments – that somehow convey thoughts and feelings that transcend both language and generational divides. The feature was heartily adopted by users, who rejoiced in the freedom of no longer needing to express themselves with actual words. For a brief while, it was possible to augment a standard comment with not only cute emoticons also but stickers and gifs from your carefully curated collection of lolz. If you weren't one of the lucky ones enjoying a day off work yesterday, distracting yourself with booze and Christmas cheer, you might have noticed that your WeChat moments feed was suddenly flooded with animations. You will need to speak Chinese to make head or tail of the website but this is apparently a legit offer open to anyone with graphic design skills.Just like the Western religious holiday that it coincided with, the latest WeChat feature came and went almost in the blink of an eye. This is where you create a sticker, submit it to WeChat and they consider it for inclusion within the WeChat sticker store or the app in general. If you’re really talented, you could try out for WeChat’s sticker submission program. You can then access your new sticker in the usual way. You can transfer music, video, stickers and general files this way so if you’re into WeChat, this is definitely something you want to get used to doing. Use the File Transfer option to transfer files from your computer directly into WeChat on your phone.Scan the QR code on the screen with your phone while logged into WeChat.You can select any size, upload your GIF, hit Resize GIF and you’re good to go.Ī couple of people I know who do this said it is much easier to create your stickers on a computer and use WeChat Web to transfer them. GIFMaker is a useful site for resizing GIFs. Select ‘+’ by the chat window to add from phone.Open a chat and select the sticker icon next to the heart at the bottom.Resize it until it is less than 500KB so it complies with WeChat size limits.Acquire your GIF from wherever you like and save it to your phone or computer.Either way, check your relevant app store for sticker apps and install any you like the look of and have good reviews. Some of them are actually very good while others aren’t quite so good. There are a bunch of third party apps for both Android and iOS that offer stickers you can add to WeChat. Repeat as many times as you like to get all the stickers you like.Browse the selection of stickers and select Get to those you want.Select the ‘+’ in the bottom left of the emoji screen.Select the emoji icon at the bottom of a chat screen.You can access the sticker store from within a chat. WeChat regularly publishes new stickers to use in the app and are mostly free. That sticker will be saved and will be accessible from the face next to the heart icon. All you need to do is press and hold any sticker you want to save and select Add to Stickers from the popup menu. It’s the simplest way to add new stickers to WeChat. Save any stickers sent to you or added to group chats to grow your collection. Use the power of social media to collect new stickers to use in your own chats.
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