It takes a lot more effort, leading to some developer keeping his job. Also, it increases the maintenance cost, again leading to some developer keeping his job.
Comment on Youtube replaced unicode emojis with fucking images
No_Support_8363@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Bruuhhhh whyyyy
intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 months ago
bss03@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Consistency. They don’t want to be at the whim of your font (which for many users will be the OS default). While it’s not frequent, sometimes Apple (iOS) or Microsoft (Edge) will have a very different interpretation of a Unicode emoji, which makes the UX of comments containing those emoji inconsistent between YT users.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 months ago
They they can grow up and add alt text
qisope@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If things work like twitch and they have custom emotes when you ‘join’ a channel as a paying member, it might also just be for consistency in how they handle the common free emotes and channel-specific emotes.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
That’s what webfonts are for
bss03@infosec.pub 5 months ago
I have been in meetings which people who thought the fact that a user could use a different font, even only intentionally, was “unacceptable”.
I hope those people aren’t directing the ship at YT, but could be.