diff --git a/files/helpers/sanitize.py b/files/helpers/sanitize.py
index 1c3189ffa..d8846fc3a 100644
--- a/files/helpers/sanitize.py
+++ b/files/helpers/sanitize.py
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ def sanitize(sanitized, noimages=False):
 	if start in sanitized and end in sanitized and start in sanitized.split(end)[0] and end in sanitized.split(start)[1]: 			sanitized = sanitized.replace(start, '<span class="spoiler">').replace(end, '</span>')
 	
 	for i in re.finditer("<p>\s*((:\w+:)\s*)+<\/p>", sanitized):
-		emojis = i.group(0).lower().replace("<p>", "").replace("</p>", "")
+		emojis = i.group(0).lower()
 		for i in re.finditer('\w*(?<!"):([^ ]{1,30}?):', emojis):
 			emoji = i.group(1).lower()
 			if path.isfile(f'./files/assets/images/emojis/{emoji}.webp'):
@@ -223,8 +223,7 @@ def sanitize(sanitized, noimages=False):
 				if emoji in session["favorite_emojis"]: session["favorite_emojis"][emoji] += 1
 				else: session["favorite_emojis"][emoji] = 1
 		
-		print(i.group(0))
-		sanitized = sanitized.replace(i.group(0), emojis)
+		sanitized = sanitized.replace(i.group(0), emojis).replace("<p>", "").replace("</p>", "")
 
 	for i in re.finditer('\w*(?<!"):([^ ]{1,30}?):', sanitized):
 		emoji = i.group(1).lower()