While Powell's original was green like Sirocco, party parrot as the internet at large knows it flashes bright with neon hues. He uses another messaging service that doesn't support emoji for work. There are plenty of party parrots that one can upload to Slack, including pizza parrot, blonde sassy parrot, Guy Fieri parrot, and mustache parrot. While party parrot sightings have been made on Twitter and there's a large subreddit dedicated to the animated emoji, its real home is Slack, a messaging service used by 8 million daily active users in more than 100 countries. "I was just so blown away by the whole thing. "It was a pretty interesting rabbit hole to fall down," Geiger Powell, a 33-year-old graphic designer, told me over the phone.
SEE ALSO: Cult of the party parrot: How a ridiculous bird became an emoji hero He had no idea his work had turned into a meme until he read my story on Tuesday. What's more, he says he made the original emoji in December 2009 and uploaded it to Something Awful, a website popular in the 2000s for its comedic blog posts and forums. Then, just this week, I got an email from a Florida man claiming to be the person I had been looking for. I spoke to the Disciples of Sirocco, a group of Redditors who helped fuel the bird's popularity the creator of a party parrot website and fans who made oddball variations on the original. Last year, I spent weeks looking for the creator of the original party parrot, a dancing emoji with a cult following. Sometimes, when you least expect it, the internet will solve a mystery for you.
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