To save characters like emojis I suggest to change the DB tables to utf8mb4 and utf8mb4_unicode_ci.
ALTER TABLE `#__jem_attachments` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
ALTER TABLE `#__jem_categories` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
ALTER TABLE `#__jem_cats_event_relations` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
ALTER TABLE `#__jem_config` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
ALTER TABLE `#__jem_countries` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
ALTER TABLE `#__jem_events` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
ALTER TABLE `#__jem_groupmembers` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
ALTER TABLE `#__jem_groups` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
ALTER TABLE `#__jem_register` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
ALTER TABLE `#__jem_venues` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
To save characters like emojis I suggest to change the DB tables to utf8mb4 and utf8mb4_unicode_ci.