Valentine’s Google Doodle
You may have noticed the cute little Valentine’s Google doodle today when you logged in to the site. Well we wanted to share the Valentine’s Google doodle that accepts all kinds of love and apparently has some people like the Christian Science Monitor up in arms, get over it. Lets take a look at the video and some opinions that are going viral online.
Valentine’s Google Doodle | The Video
Here’s the video that accompanies the cute little Valentine’s Google doodle that shows the many faces of love. Check it out, before we go into ourselves, we don’t want to ruin the surprise. We really loved the Tony Bennett that goes along with this cupid tale.
Here’s what Mashable had to say about the Valentine’s Google doodle and the first of its kind twelve years past.
Near the end, the animation pieces together a collage showing all types of love, including what appears to be a same-sex couple, which many Twitter users have already noted in their tweets.
Tony Bennett’s “Cold, Cold Heart” accompanies the animation.
Google’s first Valentine’s Day Doodle went live in 2000. Check out all of them since then in the gallery below, or learn more about how Google Doodles are created here.
Valentine’s Google Doodle | Christian Science Monitor
So the Christian Science Monitor gave their two cents on the Valentine’s Google doodle and their past support for gay sex couples. Here are the highlights from that article:
After the boy and girl live happily ever after, the video cuts to six couples. Standing front and center is a man, dressed in a tuxedo, holding hands with another man. Is this a subtle sign of support for gay marriage?
It wouldn’t be the first time. In 2008, Google publicly came out against California‘s Proposition 8, the successful ballot measure that banned gays and lesbians from marrying within the state.
“While we respect the strongly-held beliefs that people have on both sides of this argument, we see this fundamentally as an issue of equality,” wrote Google co-founder Sergey Brin before election day that year. “We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposition 8 – we should not eliminate anyone’s fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love.”
The best part of this doodle is that without dialogue it can be shared around the world. Here’s what the Washington Post had to say about that:
“The animation alludes to that universality” of love, Michael “Lippy” Lipman, the Doodle’s animator, tells Comic Riffs. “These characters are archetypes, with no dialogue, so it can play around the world.”
We would really like to know what you think about Google’s stance toward gay marriage and same-sex couples. Sound off in the comments, let us know what you think about the Valentine’s Google doodle.
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