Man in Business Suit Levitating emoji

Initially created as part of Webdings, the icon was made an emoji by the Unicode Consortium in 2014.

The designer of the Man in Business Suit Levitating icon for Webdings was Vincent Connare, who also created Comic Sans[1] and Trebuchet MS.[2] 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,[1] a ska group that was one of his favorite bands.

[3] The 2 Tone Records logo (named Walt Jabsco) was in turn based on the appearance of reggae musician Peter Tosh[1] in a 1964 photo of Bob Marley and the Wailers.

The addition was part of Unicode 7.0, which added various icons adapted from Webdings and Wingdings characters.

[5] 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.