Man in Business Suit Levitating emoji

Creation Man in Business Suit Levitating was initially a part of the 1997 font Webdings, selected by the team developing Internet Explorer 4 as one of the font's 230 icons. The designer of the Man in Business Suit Levitating icon for Webdings was Vincent Connare, who also created Comic Sans According to Connare, the original Man in Business Suit Levitating icon was based on the keyword "jump" and modeled after the logo of 2 Tone Records, which he saw on the cover of an LP record he had by The Specials, a ska group that was one of his favorite bands. The 2 Tone Records logo (named Walt Jabsco) was in turn based on the appearance of reggae musician Peter Tosh As an emoji In 2014, 17 years after its creation as part of Webdings, Man in Business Suit Levitating was made an emoji with the designation . The addition was part of Unicode 7.0, which added various icons adapted from Webdings and Wingdings characters. == Reception ==

In 2014, shortly after its introduction as an emoji, New York reported that Man in Business Suit Levitating could signify "jumping for joy" or "mystery" while noting that it had been nicknamed "the Man in Black emoji" by some internet users. In July 2016, The News Minute reported that some users of WhatsApp in India mistakenly believed that Man in Business Suit Levitating depicted Rajinikanth in his titular role in the then-upcoming film Kabali. After being told by the BBC about the history of the emoji in 2021, Peter Tosh's children Andrew Tosh and Niambe McIntosh reacted positively. Tosh stated that "My father's music is message music, to uplift the world from its slumbering mentality," while McIntosh agreed that "he wanted [people] to dance to their own (political) awakening". Both expressed familiarity with the photo on which the icon that became the emoji was based. == See also ==