Reporter | Peng Xin
On December 24th, the annual Christmas Eve, have you already sent your wishes to friends and family? If you haven't already, you might consider sending a special blessing, such as a customizable meme.
Today, WeChat launched a Christmas Easter egg: users can send exclusive Christmas emoticons.
The specific method is to upgrade the WeChat version to Android 6.3.32 and above and iOS 6.5.1 and above, and search for the four words "Merry Christmas" in the WeChat search box to get a randomly generated Christmas blessing emoticon with the user's nickname.
In addition, you can get a random DIY emoticon for each search. After searching many times, you can also get a "surprise emoticon" for the hidden model.
On WeChat, users have a long history of expressing the "sense of festival" of Christmas in various ways, such as the famous "@WeChat official add Christmas hat to the avatar" event, which successfully swiped the screen in the circle of friends and became a phenomenon-level network event.
WeChat emoticons are constantly out of the circle, after the WeChat official Weibo announced the launch of 6 new emoticons, namely: roll eyes, 666, let me see, sigh, bitter, cracked, all of which are young people use high frequency of network hot words, the news quickly appeared on the hot search first.
Recently, WeChat has been frequently updated in details, and the changes in commercial signals have become more and more obvious. In fact, in this Christmas emoji DIY activity, WeChat Search announced that it will unite more than 10 brands such as Coca-Cola, Oreo, Anmuxi, FENDI, and Freys to send brand Christmas emojis.