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Only load emoji spritesheet when necessary
The emoji_icon helper is for the emoji menu, where all the emoji need to be loaded.
The independent_emoji_icon helper is for the emoji awards that display by default.
Default (the visible award emoji are using the independent_emoji_icon helper):
With the full award emoji picker open (using emoji_icon):
On a normal issue where the only award emoji displayed by default are the thumbs-up and thumbs-down emoji, this decreases the page load by 670KB or 250KB depending on pixel density.
You can see in the above screenshots that the images on the page made up ~12KB before and 686KB after opening the emoji picker. Prior to this change, the full 686KB would be loaded regardless.
Resolves #14334 (closed).
cc: @rspeicher @jschatz1