In reply to Aaron Jorbin.

Do you think emoji's will still be around in ten years? I don't. If code to read emojis is slowing things down I'd be happy to get rid of it and not see them. Most of them are too small for me to see anyway and I seldom know what they mean. It would help if each of them had alt text to explain what they are. But, wasn't support for that taken out of WordPress recently?