Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post)

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35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called "Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji".

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I don't know about strictly "unable" but there are a million contexts where it is a bad idea and simply not done. Like a spreadsheet or financial document. Or anywhere you want your text to behave like text — with a consistent font, color, style, etc. The difference between $ (text) and 💲 (emoji) is pretty stark in most contexts.

For example, on the dark background of the UI I am viewing your comment on, The $ symbol is in white colour (as the font has been set).

But the emoji is dark grey, and wouldn't be visible if I had a cheap, low contrast monitor.

For me it looks like this:

So the text one appears the same for both of us but the emoji one appears differently which could possibly change its meaning if they were different enough

Probably because the emoji fonts don't change their colour with the font.color, which normal characters do.

And your browser is using a different font from mine