These were directly inspired by https://github.com/napari/napari

I understand the sentiment, but I do not think these really help understanding, and they frankly look cheesy to me.

@jklymak Is that you think they look cheesy when rendered in the GitHub chooser? I'm kinda ok with them:

Sure, it's a taste issue. Where I will be more strenuous in objecting is if they start showing up in milestones and issue labels. You can't easily search on them.

Absolutely. I just wanted to clarify, because I was much more OK with them in the UI than I was seeing them in the raw markdown.

The problem though, is that emoji display is not necessarily consistent:

Here I thought the bug looks more like a snake at that size.

Windows doesn't look too good either (independent of browser Chrome/Firefox/Edge).

The response to this was lukewarm enough that I'll close. But @ianhi if you feel strongly, feel free to re-open and we can come to a final decision! Thanks....