OK, I’m assuming by “yes” you mean “yes I tried ‘remove emojis’ and it doesn’t work since” ??
so here’s some feedback;
-> I can see the inline emoji-code in your HTML, so you unchecked that option
-> The inline emoji-code is succesfully calling wp-includes/js/wp-emoji-release.min.js so all emoji-stuff is happening as before
-> it’s not entirely obvious to me what is missing on the left hand of the screenshot, but on the right side you have an admin-page where I indeed can see that some of the icons are missing next to the menu-items (which are font-icons loaded from WordPress’ dashicons.min.css and as such are not impacted by emoji’s being active or not)
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now the last item is pretty important, as Autoptimize is not active on the backend (admin-pages), leading to the (non-final) conclusion at this point that your problem might not be due to autoptimize after all.
-> can you confirm/ deny by disabling AO and seeing if the problem persists?
-> what other (performance-related) plugins have you got running?
frank