![]() ![]() But that barely scratches the surface of its impact on teams, internet culture and, most importantly of all, my own damn life. Most of the time, Slack is described blandly as a workplace communication tool. Congratulations, you have probably made better life choices than I have. If you don’t know what Slack is, chances are you don’t work in media or tech. I typed many words in response to those messages - some of them even borderline good words - but came no closer to completing my job for the day: writing this article about Slack. But that's where the trail runs cold.In the time it took me to type this sentence about Slack, I received more than a dozen messages in a private Slack group and more posts than I can count in several team channels. ’s owner first saw it thanks to a friend who noticed the emoji on yet another Slack channel for a coding bootcamp in New York. ![]() Party parrot came to the Midwest by way of an online repository for GIFs and memes called (opens in a new tab). One of those developers even created (opens in a new tab), an online aviary of sorts dedicated to the meme. ![]() There are the disciples, who started out in a Slack channel for high-powered Reddit moderators and first saw the bird after someone from another channel for Midwest developers shared it with them. That means tracing its history back to its creator involves picking apart clues left by a tangle of Slack users. We do know, however, that while most memes grow in the verdant fields of social media, this one got a boost from a private platform meant for work, Slack. Many among the party-parrot obsessed have tried, unsuccessfully, to find the mastermind behind the original dancing emoji. ![]()
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