Comment by theultdev

I found it alarming that the meaning of previous texts between many people could be altered by simply changing the glyph of an emote.

And noone voted for it, all companies effectively in charge of these emojis (Google, Apple, etc.) decided for everyone that it was for the best.

What will they change next, who initiated and coordinated that effort, and why, are all important questions.

I'm very much against it. It's the same or worse than altering the text content of a message.

Once you put an emoji symbol out there for a character code and it's agreed upon, it should be immutable.