diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1eae0cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+dist/
+node_modules/
diff --git a/plugins/removeChannelEmojis/Settings.tsx b/plugins/removeChannelEmojis/Settings.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7f26de3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/removeChannelEmojis/Settings.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+import { components, settings, util } from "replugged";
+const { SwitchItem, FormNotice } = components;
+
+interface Settings {
+  unicode?: boolean;
+}
+
+export const pSettings = await settings.init<Settings>("dev.alyxia.removeChannelEmojis");
+
+export function Settings(): React.ReactElement {
+  return (
+    <>
+      <FormNotice
+        title="Reload after configuring!"
+        body="The below settings require a reload to take effect."
+        type={FormNotice.Types.DANGER}
+        style={{ marginBottom: 20 }}
+      />
+      <SwitchItem
+        note="Also get rid of all Unicode emojis that people put in channel names."
+        {...util.useSetting(pSettings, "unicode", false)}>
+        Remove Unicode emojis
+      </SwitchItem>
+    </>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/plugins/removeChannelEmojis/index.ts b/plugins/removeChannelEmojis/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..842e72b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/removeChannelEmojis/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+export { Settings } from "./Settings";
+
+interface IChannel {
+  name: string;
+}
+export function transformName(channel: IChannel): IChannel {
+  if (channel != null)
+    if (channel.name) {
+      channel.name = channel.name
+        .replace(
+          /([\u2700-\u27BF]|[\uE000-\uF8FF]|\uD83C[\uDC00-\uDFFF]|\uD83D[\uDC00-\uDFFF]|[\u2011-\u26FF]|\uD83E[\uDD10-\uDDFF])/g,
+          "",
+        )
+        .replace(/\s+/g, " ")
+        .trim();
+    }
+  return channel;
+}
diff --git a/plugins/removeChannelEmojis/manifest.json b/plugins/removeChannelEmojis/manifest.json
index e84bd4f..d0ecad8 100644
--- a/plugins/removeChannelEmojis/manifest.json
+++ b/plugins/removeChannelEmojis/manifest.json
@@ -7,12 +7,13 @@
     "discordID": "952185386350829688",
     "github": "lexisother"
   },
-  "version": "1.1.1",
+  "version": "1.2.0",
   "updater": {
     "type": "store",
     "id": "dev.alyxia.removeChannelEmojis"
   },
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "type": "replugged-plugin",
+  "renderer": "index.ts",
   "plaintextPatches": "plaintextPatches.ts"
 }
diff --git a/plugins/removeChannelEmojis/plaintextPatches.ts b/plugins/removeChannelEmojis/plaintextPatches.ts
index 92b8943..cd9f2cb 100644
--- a/plugins/removeChannelEmojis/plaintextPatches.ts
+++ b/plugins/removeChannelEmojis/plaintextPatches.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 import { PlaintextPatch } from "replugged/dist/types";
+import { pSettings } from "./Settings";
+
+const __a_require = (e: string): string =>
+  `window.replugged.plugins.getExports("dev.alyxia.removeChannelEmojis").${e}`;
 
 export default [
   {
@@ -10,4 +14,19 @@ export default [
       },
     ],
   },
+  ...(pSettings.get("unicode")
+    ? ([
+        {
+          find: /.{1,2}.displayName="ChannelStore";/,
+          replacements: [
+            {
+              match:
+                /([^;]{1,2}\.getChannel=function\([^)]*\)\{)if\(null!=(.{1,2})\)return ([^(]{1,2})\(.{1,2}\)/,
+              replace: (_, def, channelId, func) =>
+                `${def}if(null!=e)return ${__a_require("transformName")}(${func}(${channelId}))`,
+            },
+          ],
+        },
+      ] as PlaintextPatch[]) // required typehint due to conditional
+    : []),
 ] as PlaintextPatch[];
diff --git a/pnpm-lock.yaml b/pnpm-lock.yaml
index 57987cb..575ea29 100644
--- a/pnpm-lock.yaml
+++ b/pnpm-lock.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-lockfileVersion: '6.0'
+lockfileVersion: '6.1'
+
+settings:
+  autoInstallPeers: true
+  excludeLinksFromLockfile: false
 
 dependencies:
   deepmerge: