diff --git a/lib/src/views/chats/chat_messages_components/message_context_menu.dart b/lib/src/views/chats/chat_messages_components/message_context_menu.dart
index 8783068..91c0834 100644
--- a/lib/src/views/chats/chat_messages_components/message_context_menu.dart
+++ b/lib/src/views/chats/chat_messages_components/message_context_menu.dart
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import 'package:twonly/src/database/twonly_database.dart';
 import 'package:twonly/src/model/json/message.dart';
 import 'package:twonly/src/model/protobuf/push_notification/push_notification.pbserver.dart';
 import 'package:twonly/src/services/api/messages.dart';
-import 'package:twonly/src/utils/log.dart';
 import 'package:twonly/src/utils/misc.dart';
 import 'package:twonly/src/views/camera/image_editor/data/layer.dart';
 import 'package:twonly/src/views/camera/image_editor/modules/all_emojis.dart';
@@ -48,7 +47,6 @@ class MessageContextMenu extends StatelessWidget {
               },
             ) as EmojiLayerData?;
             if (layer == null) return;
-            Log.info(layer.text);
 
             await sendTextMessage(
               message.contactId,
diff --git a/lib/src/views/components/animate_icon.dart b/lib/src/views/components/animate_icon.dart
index c0712db..78ba086 100644
--- a/lib/src/views/components/animate_icon.dart
+++ b/lib/src/views/components/animate_icon.dart
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
 import 'package:lottie/lottie.dart';
+import 'package:twonly/src/views/camera/image_editor/data/data.dart';
 
 // animations from: https://googlefonts.github.io/noto-emoji-animation/
 // from https://github.com/eitanliu/emoji_regex/tree/master
@@ -9,6 +10,9 @@ RegExp emojiRegex() => RegExp(
 
 bool isEmoji(String character) {
   final matches = emojiRegex().allMatches(character);
+  if (emojis.contains(character)) {
+    return true;
+  }
   if (matches.length == 1) {
     final match = matches.first;
     return match.start == 0 && match.end == character.length;