Discord handles emojis better than any other chat platform I've used; I think this is one of the main reasons people like to use it. Telegram's up there with Skype for being one of the absolute worst at handling them. I type :flushed: and it gives me smiling blushing face instead of :flushed:. I type :o (which has always meant surprised pikachu face, since before the surprised pikachu face was even a meme) and it gives me fearful face emoji. WHY? I respond with just an emoji, and it puts a huge distracting gimmicky animated emoji into the chat. Sure I can just disable them on my end, but other users are still going to see them as the default, which can lead to miscommunication, and also, I just don't want to be seen like that. Discord simply never steps on my toes like that, it works as intended. So many chat clients over the years have died by failing to understand that less is more.