What Is The Least Used Emoji

Old around July 2018, a cruel war broke out on Twitter amongst the least used emojis.

Users around the earth started coalescing effectually each of the 4 least-used emoji at the fourth dimension, 🚡 🚱 🔠 and 🔤, trying to save their favorite emoji from the shame of coming in dead final.

After most a year of struggle and now hundreds of days of subjugation (150 at the time of writing – at present at 235), we can reply the question: which emoji will live in infamy and be known as the "least-used emoji"?

It was 🔤, also known as "input symbol for latin letters".

🔤 (Input symbol for latin letters) has been the to the lowest degree used emoji for 150 days

— Least Used Emoji Bot (@leastUsedEmoji) Apr 25, 2019

It spent 235 days languishing in concluding place in a ranking of the most used emoji on Twitter, forth with its family unit 🔠 and 🔡 in third and second respectively, showing a sort of surrender of the whole clan to the other previously warring emoji fiefdoms. Indeed, when 🔤 surrendered its last place, it was to 🔠.

The downfall of 🔤 came afterwards an all-out war broke out last year between 🚡 (aerial tramway), 🚱 (not-potable water) and 🔠 (input symbol for latin capital letters). Merciless factions supporting each of the three emoji banded together to use those emoji in equally many tweets as possible, make the count shift, let someone else end upwards at the bottom, and then deride the new least-used-emoji.

Today, the least used emoji is Input Symbol for Symbols 🔣 and has been so for at present for 130 days.

The emoji rank-o-meter

The arbiter of the state of war is the crowd: an bot called Least Used Emoji Bot pulls in data from Emojitracker – an app that pulls in data (much like our social listening tool Pulsar TRAC does) from Twitter, and ranks emojis from almost used to to the lowest degree used.

"At start I thought of tweeting out the least-used emoji excessively to try to sway the numbers — sort of a self-defeating concept," @LeastUsedEmoji's founder Jeremy told BuzzFeed News. "But eventually, I decided information technology would be better to take on an impartial, informational role."

The business relationship went viral when the plight of the aeriform tramway – which in July 2018 was languishing in last place – was picked up by the transit-memes Facebook group, NUMOT.

least-used-emoji-meme-tramway-emojis

From there, war bankrupt out between people tweeting to save the tramway and those who took the side of the former final-place emoji, non-potable h2o, and the new competitor for concluding place input symbol for capital latin messages 🔠.

WE GOTTA Boost MY GUY 🚡. Come up ON EVERYBODY LET'S SHOW AERIAL TRAMWAY SOME Dear 🚡🚡🚡🚡🚡🚡🚡https://t.co/57TcBMfnyG

— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) July nineteen, 2018

The war intensified in tardily Nov, as the least-used emoji changed multiple times per twenty-four hour period. For a curt while during the 'battle of input symbol for capital latin letters', centrists began to emerge, trying to form a coalition:

Okay @PrismaSimon, I've taken some time to think about it and I propose that we create the Aerial Tramway Latin Input Symbol Brotherhood, or ATLISA for short (that worked out better than I thought) where we all endeavour to elevator both from the bottom with the post-obit conditions ane/?

— Penelope (@hatkid_) November thirteen, 2018

Centrists smh

— KennɅ̊n 🚡 (@KennanFrench) November 13, 2018

But both 🚡🚱 sides were so potent that eventually they neutralized each other, every bit all of the latin letters dropped down the chart (or in this case… upwards. The nautical chart below shows the cumulative days spent at the lesser of the rankings).

least used emoji chart

Who cares?

To the lowest degree-used-emojis are least-used precisely because they are unremarkable – but any of them being all-powerful with the to the lowest degree-used condition helped people personalize them and empathize with them, and turning those around the same ballpark as enemies to be taken down.

Not-potable-h2o and aeriform tramway came out winning partly considering they were easier to anthropomorphize than the letters: both came to have a "confront" that the latin messages never managed to achieve.

I think it'southward intrinsically less sympathetic than 🚡.

— vkap (@VJKapur) July 22, 2018

Emojis need a story. When y'all're upwards against the likes of 'cry laughing' (named discussion of the year in 2015), 'love' and 'recycling', it suddenly all falls into perspective.

The input messages or symbols have no faces, just aeriform tramway and non-beverage water are objects, and can have stories attached to them. Which might exist why the boring letters emoji, that tin can have little attached to them accept finally fallen to where they 'deserve' to be.

That is, until someone plant a way to embody some meaning into 🔤, such every bit this clever riff on the Jackson 5 song.

🔤
Information technology's easy equally, one 2 3
As simple as, do re mi
🔤, 1 2 3
Baby, you lot and me girl
🔤
It'southward easy every bit, 1 2 three
Every bit unproblematic equally, do re mi
🔤, 1 2 3
Infant, you and me girl

— supsup (@supsup987) July 17, 2019

The emoji tracker will still exist watching.