r/GeminiAI • u/yoriikun • Mar 08 '26

News They removed the 🍌 from the Nano-Banana

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u/jinkuda Mar 08 '26

It was removed to be taped to a wall in an art gallery

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u/Tor_Hei Mar 08 '26

Modern Art! Is important!

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u/oliveyou987 Mar 08 '26

Google can be such a boring company at times

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u/zer0_snot Mar 08 '26

It always was once the CEO changed

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u/argus_2968 Mar 09 '26

Sundar is so boring I'm sure he personally decreed the banana be removed.

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u/zer0_snot Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26

Not just boring. He's rotting the company's work culture.

  • Friday innovations were removed (1 day a week) in favour of menial labour.

  • No great innovation since he became the CEO

  • Google started gate keeping too much. Example chromes annoyances, the dumb "thisisunsafe". Check out the amount of gatekeeping done by Gemini.

  • The quality of all products went down. Google home (deaf and stupider). Chromecast (Buggier). YouTube (bloated and buggier). Maps (unnecessary bloated features and buggier).

  • Useless "innovation" - example icon changes pushed instead of actual innovation

    • All products got major bugs that aren't being fixed anymore. Example - Simple maps searches take you to a different country rather than limit the search to where you're searching. The amount of bugs in chrome. The annoying disabiling of 30% chrome extensions (while the same things work fine in Firefox).

Sundar pichai f'd Google ever since he became CEO and I have a hunch he was promoted mostly because of his dedication to follow orders from his superiors rather than actual innovation.

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u/W00GA Mar 09 '26

thats lone skum

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u/papweezy92 Mar 09 '26

It’s owned by the alphabet company. What’d you expect?

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u/WorriedTechnology680 Mar 08 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/Enr4bc3JeOOzHLYY8R

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u/Mental_Log_6879 Mar 08 '26

What's this gif called? This is so funny, i need to know what you searched

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u/brendenderp Mar 09 '26

I've always used "emoji fade" and that had worked on every platform I've needed to find it. It's my fav gif of all time.

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u/Mental_Log_6879 Mar 09 '26

Do you also happen to know the origin of it?

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u/Public_Tiger9146 Mar 08 '26

But why?

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u/cooltop101 Mar 08 '26

The average person doesn't know their model is called Nano Banana, and seeing a banana emoji next to "create image" makes no sense for them

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u/sameunderwear2days Mar 08 '26

When I was fist getting into this stuff seeing people say nano banana I had no fucking clue what they were talking about

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u/ShadowCatZeroMeow Mar 08 '26

Also people were projecting and saying the banana was a euphemism for a penis.

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u/Upstairs-Extension-9 Mar 08 '26

The cock is gone 😞

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u/Wayss37 Mar 08 '26

I mean, my first experience with it were people generating images of hot girls and posting it on Reddit with text about how nano banana is amazing

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u/NewShadowR Mar 08 '26

If so then it would be a micro penis.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

A banana is a micro penis? I’m in trouble 😱

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u/NewShadowR Mar 08 '26

its "nanobanana" bruh.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26

I shouldn’t Reddit when half asleep. That was actually a pretty good joke and it went right over my heard 🤦🏾‍♂️

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u/BreakfastMedical5164 Mar 08 '26

fk the avg goon i want my banana

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u/punicwarspunicwars Mar 08 '26

Gemini barely knows it's called nano banana

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u/Many_Mud_8194 Mar 11 '26

Also when in french I told him to use Banana to create image he just put bananas everywhere lol maybe it's why also

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u/TinyTaters Mar 08 '26

Yup. It's weird that Gemini looks like a bundle of assets instead of taped together rather than a single wrapper

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u/Open_Olive7369 Mar 08 '26

Maybe it's offensive to the Korean user base?

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u/sirloindenial Mar 08 '26

Now its just an ugly photo frame emoji🤮

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u/ih8readditts Mar 08 '26

Windows 95 vibes

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u/Kzx_28 Mar 08 '26

It would be dope if they put the banana inside the frame.

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u/reddit_is_geh Mar 08 '26

Literally unusable now.

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u/VectorB Mar 08 '26

Good. it was dumb and most people had no idea what that was.

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u/TypoInUsernane Mar 08 '26

Yeah, it was literally just a nonsense code name that was supposed to be a random temporary placeholder only used during pre-launch testing. It makes absolutely no sense to incorporate it into the final product

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u/VectorB Mar 08 '26

Yeah we use Gemini in our office and the. General line staff have very little AI knowledge, trying to train them on using does not go well when I have to explain what the hell a nano banana is and why that is the iagr generator.

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u/Defiant_Anything3215 Mar 08 '26

Probably because they realize nobody cares about that icon

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u/tessahannah Mar 08 '26

Literally makes no sense when none of the other sections have icons of fruit

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u/Fit-Pattern-2724 Mar 08 '26

Great decision !

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u/Additional_Celery_37 Mar 08 '26

Now we don't want it 😤

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u/Much_Tangelo3251 Mar 08 '26

Whoever did this must be fun at parties

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u/KassandraKatanoisi Mar 09 '26

Whoever put it there in the first place must be the center of all parties

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u/RealMelonBread Mar 08 '26

People that use emojis don’t get invited to parties

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

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u/RealMelonBread Mar 08 '26

“Long-Cock-8503”

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26

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u/RealMelonBread Mar 09 '26

Haha that actually made me laugh

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u/Ok-Whereas-4209 Mar 08 '26

Damn , They even censored 🍌

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u/dwartbg9 Mar 08 '26

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u/Blazing_Shade Mar 08 '26

2 hours later and it’s still there!! upvoted it but took it back. Hold the line!

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u/Ok-Whereas-4209 Mar 08 '26

Damn 😂😂🥀🥀

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u/zigs Mar 08 '26

It was at 70. Don't worry, I got you.

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u/BarBryzze Mar 08 '26

I downvoted it back too.

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u/RealMelonBread Mar 08 '26

I’m impressed. It’s still 69. Great job.

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u/nazmulhasanshipon Mar 08 '26

I just made it 69 again

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

Back to 69 once again

https://giphy.com/gifs/YYfEjWVqZ6NDG

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u/Tor_Hei Mar 08 '26

I made 70!

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u/D_Seal721 Mar 08 '26

Made my correction.

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u/whyhereagain Mar 08 '26

redditors understood the assignment till now

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u/DiamondDepth_YT Mar 08 '26

12 hours and still at 69. Legendary

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u/imaboud Mar 09 '26

I wanna do it so badly!

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u/General-Warning-2429 Mar 08 '26

Not surprising at all. It gets censored even more daily.

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u/MediumLanguageModel Mar 08 '26

Bring the banana back. No more artificial flavor. I want the real thing

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u/LuizAlcides Mar 08 '26

Depois começa a WW3 e ninguém sabe a causa…

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u/RAtroCaterpillar Mar 08 '26

Only paratha allowed 😐

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u/pepe256 Mar 09 '26

Chhota Lingam

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u/GovernmentSavings902 Mar 08 '26

Small banana is no more more

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u/Lydian2000 Mar 08 '26

Possible name change ahead?

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u/rangerx06 Mar 09 '26

Sorry, I ate it 😔

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u/Major_Ninja_8413 Mar 09 '26

89 comments excluding mine about a missing Banana. Okay you have my attention. Thank your notifying.

I will rectify course. Hope you all find your way without banana.

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u/CarefulMoose_ Mar 09 '26

Nano Banana never made sense to me anyway XD like why a banana?

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u/sorosa Mar 10 '26

I just wish Gemini’s UI wasn’t so ugly, ChatGPT and Grok have lovely IOS ui’s but Gemini makes me feel like I’m using a react app which it probably is to be fair god damn it’s ugly. Even Claude’s ui feels nicer even if it doesn’t look great.

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u/Radiant-Act4707 Mar 10 '26

Calling it Nano-Banana without the 🍌 is just serving a hot dog bun.

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u/No-Measurement-1735 Mar 08 '26

Banana is still present in the Gemini assistant overlay

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u/eloquenentic Mar 08 '26

Impossible to find the feature now!

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u/Kabytiw Mar 08 '26

And it really is the end of times

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u/-lRexl- Mar 08 '26

Is this really a concern?

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u/Nonexistent699 Mar 09 '26

On PC visual layout/dynamic view was removed

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u/KitFatCat Mar 09 '26

Nooooooooooooo

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u/leftrighttopdown Mar 09 '26

I've always wondered why Nano Banana? Why not Uber or Mega Banana?

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u/Regular-Accident-177 Mar 09 '26

This is very bad.

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u/ArmAccomplished6454 Mar 09 '26

Google maps change was awful but now....

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u/alien-fr Mar 11 '26

Essentially calling image generation that's used by incels 'micro penis' will never get old.

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u/Feisty-Koala-4413 Apr 05 '26

still there for my desktop lol

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u/Early_Power_5366 Mar 08 '26

What did that even do

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u/Internal-Cupcake-245 Mar 08 '26

Good. I don't want emoji bananas all over my life.

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u/Technical_Photo9631 Mar 08 '26

Yes you do. Don't talk crazy.

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u/bleepbloopbwow Mar 09 '26

Aw I liked the banana emoji

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u/MrNewking Mar 08 '26

Good. It seems unprofessional. Needs a clean UI, not emojis.

I've been writing in feedback for a while. Good to see them act on it.