25 years ago computers and networks were different. Today text is a <0.1% of traffic compared with video and you have billions of bytes of RAM in every pocket c

25 years ago computers and networks were different. Today text is a <0.1% of traffic compared with video and you have billions of bytes of RAM in every pocket computer. So yes, you can pile on more emojis and no one would be bothered. Unicode may have been never adopted at all if it had even larger set for CJK and made all CJK texts 1.5-2x larger than in Han-unified version, due to longer encoding. Also: UTF-8 did not exist yet and most systems treated text as arrays of fixed length characters.