Recently I've been receiving spam and commercial emails that include special unicode characters in the subject line that display as tiny animated icons in the Gmail web app.This post on Stack Overflow explains what they are and how they work.I find the animations extremely distracting when they are displayed in a list of emails by subject. Is there any way to turn them off or hide them?
How can I turn off or hide animated emoji icons in subject lines in Gmail?
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Cross-posted to Turn off or hide email icons that display in Gmail subject linesShort AnswerThe Gmail web app doesn't include an option to turn off or hide the animated icons shown in the subject. One way to do this is by using the CSS property {display:none} to elements having the goomoji attribute.CodeSimplest codeThis will hide all the emojis in the Gmail web UI.[goomoji]{    display:none;}Hide only emojis in the subject (not tested yet).y6>span>img[goomoji]{    display:none;}ExplanationAnimated icons are called emojis, they were incorporated as UNICODE characters from 2010. As they aren't supported by all computer operating systems and web browsers Gmail replace them by using the attribute goomoji.Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language used for the presentation of web pages. One of its elements are selectors which are used to specify the presentation settings of HTML elements.To help users to apply custom CSS, aka user styles, there are extensions for web browsers. One of them is Stylish for Chrome. ReferencesAnimated icon in email subjecthttps://userstyles.org/