Seinfeld2000

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About

Seinfeld2000 is a parody social media account, which satirizes Modern Seinfeld by asking "what would the television series Seinfeld be like if it were on television today?" However, unlike Modern Seinfeld, Seinfeld2000 answers this question using the conventions of Weird Twitter and surreal photoshopped pictures.

Origin

Seinfeld2000 is the internet handle of Jason Richards, who, following the popularity of parody Seinfeld accounts, which tweeted episode ideas for a modern version of the show, registered @Seinfeld2000 on Twitter on January 11th, 2013.^[1] The accounts bio offers the account's central thesis: "Imagen Seinfeld was never canceled and still NBC comedy program today?" In his first tweet, @Seinfeld2000^[2] tweeted, "Jerry use internet and Elaine start using internet." The post (shown below) received more than 90 retweets and 100 likes. As of June 2017, the Twitter account has more than 150,000 followers.

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In April 2013, @Seinfeld2000 published his first eBook, a 17,000 word episode of Seinfeld called "The Apple Store" on SmashWords.com. Exploring Jerry's (or as he calls him "Jary") trip to the Apple retail store, the book violated several copyrights, leading to its removal. On September 4th, 2013, Gawker published the eBook in its entirety.^[3]

On May 24th, Vice published an interview @Seinfeld2000 conducted with Ezra Konig from the indie rock band Vampire Weekend.^[5] Since then, @Seinfeld2000 has published numerous articles for the outlet.^[6]

On June 28th, 2013, @seinfeld2000^[4] posted their first Instagram picture. The image (shown below) featured George Costanza in a Russian hat with a Supreme clothing logo on the front. The image received more than 530 likes within four years.

On September 16th, 2013, the creators of @Seinfeld2000 collaborated with Chris Baker and Mike Lacher to release SeinQuest2000^[7], a short film based on the account’s tweets.

On May 24th, 2017, @seinfeld2000 posted a video (shown below) of the Pope meeting President Donald Trump set to the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song. Within two weeks, the video has received more than 60,000 retweets and 97,000 likes. On Instagram, the post received more than 118,000 views and 1,900 comments within two weeks.^[11]

Several news outlets have covered the Twitter accounts, including The New York TImes, Slate,^[8] The AV Club,^[9] Pitchfork^[10] and more.