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Microsoft employees discover new Teams feature thanks to Pepe the Frog


Custom emoji could be coming to Teams this year.

The Pepe the Frog emotes, which are now widely used in Discord servers and on Amazon’s Twitch streaming platform as lighthearted responses, appeared alongside other custom emoji that don’t ship in Microsoft Teams right now. The addition of Pepe the Frog to internal versions of Microsoft Teams surprised some employees because of the fraught history of this particular meme. Microsoft did acknowledge the highly requested feature had been added to a backlog of new additions seven months ago.

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