[red_hare]

I wonder if it has to do with how meaning is tied to the tokens. c+amara+derie (using the official gpt-5 tokenizer).

There's also just that weird thing where they're obsessed with emoji which I've always assumed is because they're the only logograms in english and therefore have a lot of weight per byte.

[astrange]

OAI puts instructions in the system prompt to use or not use emoji depending on your style settings.