Probably cause more and more users gravitated to mobile where it became commonplace to include emojis in posts. I remember too when using emojis was a mortal sin. At most you could use an emoticon but that was it.
This was years before I ever thought about Linux and still a Windows slave, but I can vaguely remember a guy on a bus working on a laptop and telling me all about Ubuntu. That was probably my very first exposure to Linux and I forgot about it for a decade.
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It stores it however you want it stored, bby ;)