this doesn't really matter though, because you still now the meaning of the Emoji. Letters also render different, depending on the font, without their meaning changing
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This is not true. The actual form has meaning too. Extreme example: if someone sends a romantic message, they typically don't want it rendered in a font typically used for the title on a horror DVD.
does that commonly happen though? emoji exist in unicode so meaning should remain consistent. in fact, here is how popular emoji render across platforms: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
It doesn't matter. Communication is often sensitive enough to not mess with it in any way. And there is no reason why emoji could not be transmitted without mutations (their size is negligible).