diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 51844f4a3..70c063c6c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 		"react-addons-css-transition-group": "^15.6.2",
 		"react-color": "^2.14.0",
 		"react-dom": "npm:@hot-loader/react-dom",
-		"react-easy-emoji": "^1.2.0",
+		"react-easy-emoji": "^1.4.0",
 		"react-fuzzy-highlighter": "^0.3.1",
 		"react-helmet": "^6.0.0",
 		"react-i18next": "^11.0.0",
diff --git a/source/types/react-easy-emoji.d.ts b/source/types/react-easy-emoji.d.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 49dfd2aa2..000000000
--- a/source/types/react-easy-emoji.d.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-declare module 'react-easy-emoji' {
-	function emoji(input: string): string
-
-	export default emoji
-}
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 860677a2f..2d5caf6cd 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -9642,10 +9642,10 @@ react-color@^2.14.0:
     prop-types "^15.6.2"
     scheduler "^0.19.0"
 
-react-easy-emoji@^1.2.0:
-  version "1.3.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/react-easy-emoji/-/react-easy-emoji-1.3.0.tgz#c68ac1512985c08429928ab19d83824c272379c2"
-  integrity sha512-OBv+Yue3ubZ+Qe2DMNZAXReluJFy7eG1fFNG2+AfzIYN7dhFCFynpt+mX93QuOa15GJR6u5LzwnrnTWsDSIxrg==
+react-easy-emoji@^1.4.0:
+  version "1.4.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/react-easy-emoji/-/react-easy-emoji-1.4.0.tgz#dfcbb743bf8439af265aa25a1e72998c6d2225ff"
+  integrity sha512-TcufijpuWKgYgzbySEBukNef+y0HI/4PAJ4gc9vb1CF7Q4CcAS2ZV8VMZk0ObtKKwJJfVgAHVt86nXWOed8QXg==
   dependencies:
     lodash.assign "^4.0.8"
     string-replace-to-array "^1.0.1"