Maybe they have created just several ranks:

VIP

VIP

VIP

I think star is just emoji, after text.

Oooohhhh I never thought of that possibility.

This is how I did it in my community when we used previous community platform.

But let’s wait what they say

Hey @DannyPancratz - yep indeed, we simply use an emoji!  We first considered the default options for rank styling, but when we played around with this approach it seemed to be the clearest and most intuitive way to link a set of stars (acting as ‘levels’) directly to the rank title.  In terms of visual design we’re of course very limited with what’s available as an emoji, but we’re pretty happy with this.  It’s easy and simple.

How could we do this but instead of a badge that sits in the badge section, have it sit in the bottom corner of their profile picture? ​@Kenneth R 

Hi ​@LuH - to get a small icon that sits over the profile picture you can use the formatting options that are part of the ranks system.