Screengrab: WIRED
In the 1990s it was the Puffy Shirt, but these days Jerry Seinfeld rocks Google Glass. Maybe not at his favorite diner, but definitely on the cover of WIRED—and now in emoji.
The new Seinfeld emoji come courtesy of Jason Richards—the guy behind the @Seinfeld2000 Twitter account—and Houston-based graphic designer Kevin McCauley. And the fun doesn’t stop with Glasshole Jerry. There’s also a non-”modarn” version of @Seinfeld2000 stalwarts Jerry, Elaine, “Gerge,” “Kragnor,” Junior Mints, and even—yes—a puffy shirt.
And the best part is, you might actually be able to use these to send texts (about nothing) to your friends. McCauley created the images for a new app that is reportedly awaiting approval from the App Store.
Unfortunately, even if the app is approved the new emoji might not show up in your standard emoji keyboard. What is the deal with that? The Seinfeld Emoji web site explains, in @Seinfeld2000′s familiar brand of mangled English: “We called Apple and tried to make this hapen [sic] but honestly the CEO, Tim Cook or whatever, he was like ‘how did you get my phone number, this is my confidentiel [sic] unlisted number. I am v busy, plese [sic] stop calling,.’ And then when we called back he simply declined becase [sic] it went straght [sic] to voicemail after only one ring or whatever.”
New internet rule: Write to us in Seinfeld emojis or don’t write to us at all.
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