[dmd]

If you unexpectedly get balloons in your video, here's why: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105117

[ljm]

It actually knows the difference between the British version of the middle finger (the V) and the peace sign

(Peace sign has palm facing out, 'fuck you' sign has palm facing in)

[yreg]

Would be nice to have a middle finger facetime effect as well.

[noduerme]

it saddens me to say it, but the middle finger emoji has long since displaced the thumbs up in my most-recent shortcuts

[arflikedog]

haha this is absolutely hilarious, couldn't have predicted this

[mdaniel]

my colleague always gets this shit during our Zoom calls, and searching for "disable" or "off" on that page only coughs up Facetime-centric settings, and (for good or bad) searching for "zoom" is damn near worthless

I sure do hope that made some PM a bazillion dollars, because it's not a good use of glucose, and worse when multiplied by the amount of glucose required by everyone downstream who now needs to expend energy to learn(?) how to turn it off

Snow Leopard for life.

[makeworld]

Those FaceTime settings will actually turn it off globally, I'm told.

[tedd4u]

A menu icon appears in the global menu bar when video is active, you can disable it from there.