Spider 🕷
Copy & Meaning

A spider — eight-legged, silk-spinning, and capable of inspiring irrational fear in a significant portion of the human population despite being largely harmless and genuinely beneficial as pest controllers. Arachnophobia is one of the most common phobias, yet spiders eat enormous quantities of insects that would otherwise bother humans. Spider silk is stronger than steel by weight. The World Wide Web takes its name from the spider's web.

Halloween deployments of this emoji are ubiquitous. "Spider sensing something important is about to happen 🕷" uses Spider-Man's famous ability. Used for Halloween, horror content, fear expressions, and web/internet wordplay.