Someone has just started throwing emoji into text in my site, For the most part I don't mind but I want to strip it from article and thread titles. Either to change them to plain text completely, or use a regex to strip the emoji specifically. After looking into this and trying out a bunch of regex I found on stack overflow, it seems there's many types of emoji and I couldn't get any of these to work. 
$text =~ s/[\x00-\x1F\x80-\xFF]+\s*//g;

$text =~ s/\xEE[\x80-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]|\xEF[\x81-\x83][\x80-\xBF]+\s*//
+g;

$text =~ s/([0-9#][\x{20E3}])|[\x{00ae}\x{00a9}\x{203C}\x{2047}\x{2048
+}\x{2049}\x{3030}\x{303D}\x{2139}\x{2122}\x{3297}\x{3299}][\x{FE00}-\
+x{FEFF}]?|[\x{2190}-\x{21FF}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{2300}-\x{23FF}]
+[\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{2460}-\x{24FF}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{25A0
+}-\x{25FF}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{2600}-\x{27BF}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}
+]?|[\x{2900}-\x{297F}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{2B00}-\x{2BF0}][\x{FE0
+0}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{1F000}-\x{1F6FF}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]|[\x{D83E}][\x{
+DD13}-\x{DD14}]?+\s*//g;

$text =~ s/([0-9|#][\x{20E3}])|[\x{00ae}\x{00a9}\x{203C}\x{2047}\x{204
+8}\x{2049}\x{3030}\x{303D}\x{2139}\x{2122}\x{3297}\x{3299}][\x{FE00}-
+\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{2190}-\x{21FF}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{2300}-\x{23FF}
+][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{2460}-\x{24FF}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{25A
+0}-\x{25FF}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{2600}-\x{27BF}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF
+}]?|[\x{2900}-\x{297F}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{2B00}-\x{2BF0}][\x{FE
+00}-\x{FEFF}]?|[\x{1F000}-\x{1F6FF}][\x{FE00}-\x{FEFF}]?+\s*//g

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