MySQL Doesn't Like My Strings

Attempting to resolve an "incorrect string value" error when running Wagtail's update_index management command.

The Problem

I am currently running into an "incorrect string value" error when attempting to run Wagtail's update_index management command.

The stack trace looks like this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 84, in _execute
    return self.cursor.execute(sql, params)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py", line 73, in execute
    return self.cursor.execute(query, args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 209, in execute
    res = self._query(query)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py", line 315, in _query
    db.query(q)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 239, in query
    _mysql.connection.query(self, query)
MySQLdb._exceptions.OperationalError: …