Google showers Velma in confetti after the long-serving member of the company with gay-pride flags and confetti “Scooby-Doo”Crew has been officially confirmed as a lesbian.
Google Search queries for “Easter egg” were updated Wednesday with a new feature. “Velma,” “Velma Scooby-Doo,” “Velma Dinkley” (the character’s full name) and even “Dinkley” yield a regular search-results page — along with a cascade of multicolored confetti and various LGBTQ flags. Two buttons appear at the bottom of Google Search page. One allows you to replay the animation and the other allows you to share the search result via Facebook or Twitter.
Google Search is celebrating Velma’s coming out in the new animated movie “Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!,”This shows her crushing on Coco Diablo (the head of a syndicate of costume crime). The scenes with Velma going gaga over Diablo confirmed fans’ long-held beliefs about Velma’s sexual identity.
“Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!”The movie was released digitally on Oct. 4, for purchase or rent, and will stream on HBO Max beginning Oct. 15. The movie is described as follows: “menacing doppelgänger ghosts of the Scooby crew and favorite classic foes show up in Coolsville to threaten Halloween.”
Google Search already has an Easter egg that appears in searches for “gay pride”Or “LGBT pride”Click on the rainbow-colored heart to unleash a wave and flag-waving parade at the bottom of this page.
Google Search’s Velma gay-pride Easter egg works both on mobile and desktop browsers.
It’s not the first time Google has hidden pop-culture Easter eggs in its search engine.
It launched an animated Batman bat-signal animation earlier this year in time for the release “The Batman”K-pop stars BTS and movie. Click or tap to access audio messages from the band members. Purple balloons can be popped with a click. There are also Easter eggs. “Friends,” displaying special icons on searches for each of the lead characters — Chandler Bing, Phoebe Buffay, Monica Geller, Ross Geller, Rachel Green and Joey Tribbiani — that activate unique animations (e.g., Phoebe singing “Smelly Cat”).
These Easter eggs are in addition the Google Search classic Easter eggs that have been tucked away for years such as those triggered by searching for a specific keyword. “do a barrel roll,” “googly eyes”Or “askew.”In the meantime, you can ask questions “is Google down?”The results are terse “No.”