[qwerty_123]

I caution the use of emoji, I've seen so many stack overflow job posts with memey use of emojis and it just makes me cringe and I find it hard to take the company seriously.

[tgb]

Why can't I just disable emoji in email subjects in gmail? I'd definitely like to.

[wtracy]

If settle for just being able to disable animated emoji in the subject line.

(I was shocked the first time I got spam that started playing animations before I opened it.)

[thewakalix]

I never thought I'd see the lack of unicode support in my terminal as a feature...

[underdown]

Emojis in subject line reliably increase open rate in my experience. Also others report the same:

https://www.outreach.io/blog/will-emojis-increase-reply-rate...

Maybe SO emails go over the top though

[derenge]

How much did they increase your open rate?

The linked report actually indicates a decrease in replies.

  Combined across all seven test variations, we saw a 42% decline in reply rate when the subject line featured emojis.

[underdown]

Tbh I've never optimized for reply rate so this could have been true for me as well. Generally selling dtc. Open rate and sales increased reliably 10-15%. Haven't done any comparable email marketing in two years so things may have changed since then and obviously my anecdata may not be true for you.