Since Unicode emojis don't get parsed into Twemoji inside of the custom status text, this is somewhat expected behaviour. This is what it looks like on macOS, for reference:
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And this is what it looks like on another chat app:
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Rendering Twemoji inside of custom status text would be a feature request for now, so I'm converting this to a discussion!
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Comment by Hampus
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