Party Parrot

About

Party Parrot is an emote used on the messaging and collaboration application Slack, featuring a multi-colored, animated depiction of Sirocco the kakapo parrot who was famously filmed mating with zoologist Mark Carwardine's head during an episode of the BBC nature documentary series Last Chance to See.

Origin

On September 29th, 2009, the BBC YouTube channel uploaded a video titled "Shagged by a Rare Parrot," containing footage of a rare kakapo parrot vigorously humping the head of zoologist Mark Carwardine while Last Chance to See host Stephen Fry laughs off camera (shown below). Within eight years, the video gained over 7.2 million views and 4,100 comments.

"I'm sorry, one of the funniest things I've ever seen. You are being shagged by a rare parrot. He thinks you are a female. He's really going for it. Wow. Actually, you're in pain, aren't you?"

In January 2016, the CultofthePartyParrot^[2] website was launched, providing various Party Parrot emojis to download for Slack (shown below).

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On June 8th, 2016, the /r/PartyParrot^[1] subreddit was launched for discussions related to the Slack emote and BBC video. On July 19th, the Universal Party Parrot Chrome extension was released, enabling Party Parrot tags across all subreddits.^[5] On November 10th, Party Parrot emoji keyboards were released on iTunes^[6] and the Google Play^[4] app stores (shown below, left). In February 2017, a Party Parrot-themed 2048 game was created on the site 2048 Online^[7] (shown below, right).

In early April, Minecraft added parrots to the game that flash different colors and dance when placed next to a music box. On April 3rd, Redditor onnuwhere submitted an animated GIF of the new parrots titled "Sirocco the Party Parrot" (shown below). Within 72 hours, the post gained over 1,800 votes (95% upvoted) and 80 comments on /r/Minecraft.^[3]

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