Some time ago, I noticed that youtube comments are copied without emojis, thought nothing of that - bugs happen - but today I finally decided to find out why and what the hell is even this.

  • @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    if the user doesn’t have a suitable font installed

    Then they can just download the font. No need for images.

    I bet this is about making the emoji animated or something

    • @einlander
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      05 months ago

      Unless your on a mobile device and that’s not an option.

      • @[email protected]
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        Why wouldn’t it be? I don’t mean install it, they could just download it on page load like other fonts

        • @einlander
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          45 months ago

          I guess webfonts would work.