Great tips! Here are some colorful emojis that work for me

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I think they add even more than Unicode! And some of your Unicode in your article came out as weird squares with alphanumeric characters in them.

Thanks for the tip about not asking for claps. I guess I will just starting following even more people ;) Have a great day, and keep writing!