Why do emoji not render above a certain size in Chrome?

Question

For some reason emoji do not render above a certain size in Chrome. This size seems unrelated to font-size or scale, it is just simply the pixel si

Answer 1

I just had the same problem, and I found out that the new max font size for emojis on Android devices is 49px, not 54px as Tobi Reif stated.

I guess this is changing with every new version.