Aerial Tramway Emoji
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The Aerial Tramway Emoji is an Emoji of an aerial tramway, also known as a cable car. The Aerial Tramway Emoji is notable for being one of the least used Emojis of all time, likely due to how niche it is. In 2018, the Emoji saw a reported spike in use after the X / Twitter gimmick account @leastUsedEmoji featured it for over 70 days as the least used Emoji, inspiring a push from some to use the Emoji enough to get its status changed. In May 2025, YouTuber John Casterline posted a video about the Aerial Tramway Emoji, encouraging users to use it more often, resulting in it being spammed in the comment sections of YouTube Shorts videos.
Origin
The Aerial Tramway Emoji was purportedly added as an Emoji on May 23rd, 2017.[1] On May 5th, 2018, the X[2] gimmick account @leastUsedEmoji made a post claiming that it was the least used Emoji, writing, "The least used emoji is now: 🚡 (Aerial tramway)," garnering over 100 likes in seven years. It remained that way until at least November 25th, 2018.[3]
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On July 11th, 2018, Vice[4] published an article about the Emoji, offering several ways people can use it. On July 17th, BuzzFeed[5] published an article by Julia Reinstein about the Aerial Tramway Emoji, @leastUsedEmoji and a push from X users to get it to be more popular.
On July 21st, 2019, a Starter Pack meme was posted to the /r/starterpack[6] subreddit that includes the Emoji in a list of the most useless Emojis, garnering over 300 upvotes in six years.
On May 14th, 2025, YouTuber[7] John Casterline posted a video about the Aerial Tramway Emoji, claiming that it is still the least used Emoji, despite the X bot claiming it is now the "🔣" Emoji. In his video, Casterline encourages viewers to use the Emoji more. The video gained over 1.8 million views in a day.
Purportedly, the video inspired a trend where people spam the Emoji in the comment sections of YouTube Shorts uploads.
For instance, on May 14th, Redditor u/Nm-Lahm made a post to the /r/OutOfTheLoop[8] subreddit asking why people were spamming the Emoji, garnering over 230 upvotes in a day.
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[2] X – leastUsedEmoji
[3] X – leastUsedEmoji
[4] Vice – Here Are 13 Ways to Use the Aerial Tramway, the Emoji No One Likes
[5] Buzzfeed – juliareinstein
[6] Reddit – starterpack
[7] YouTube – John Casterline
[8] Reddit – OutOfTheLoop
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