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Emojis are known to break systems in certain circumstances due to the way they're interpreted in certain character sets.
I guarantee people doing this will not only lock out their own accounts, but may even freeze some authentication servers.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/want-to-brick-an-iphone-send-some-emojis
https://www.itechpost.com/articles/75762/20170119/brick-iphone-using-emojis-plus-tricks-dont-know.htm
auth servers breaking from emojis would be hilarious, pretty sure that's why older auth servers only allow certain symbols in passwords
"Your password '🤣umådbrø⁉️' is breaking our server. Please change it."
"Of course. What is the server's root password?"