diff --git a/client/src/components/ui/SplitText.spec.tsx b/client/src/components/ui/SplitText.spec.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3f8a8e49ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/src/components/ui/SplitText.spec.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import { render } from '@testing-library/react';
+import SplitText from './SplitText';
+
+// Mock IntersectionObserver
+class MockIntersectionObserver {
+  observe = jest.fn();
+  unobserve = jest.fn();
+  disconnect = jest.fn();
+}
+
+Object.defineProperty(window, 'IntersectionObserver', {
+  writable: true,
+  configurable: true,
+  value: MockIntersectionObserver,
+});
+
+describe('SplitText', () => {
+  it('renders emojis correctly', () => {
+    const emojis = ['🚧', '❤️‍🔥', '💜', '🦎', '❌', '✅', '⚠️'];
+    const originalText = emojis.join('');
+
+    const { container } = render(<SplitText text={originalText} />);
+    const textSpans = container.querySelectorAll('p > span > span.inline-block');
+
+    // Reconstruct the text by joining all span contents
+    const reconstructedText = Array.from(textSpans)
+      .map((span) => span.textContent)
+      .join('')
+      .trim();
+    // Compare the reconstructed text with the original
+    expect(reconstructedText).toBe(originalText);
+
+    // Check the first character specifically as the reconstructed text could hide issues
+    for (let i = 0; i < emojis.length; i++) {
+      expect(Array.from(textSpans)[i].textContent).toBe(emojis[i]);
+    }
+  });
+});
diff --git a/client/src/components/ui/SplitText.tsx b/client/src/components/ui/SplitText.tsx
index 8a37def906..cde04eb8a1 100644
--- a/client/src/components/ui/SplitText.tsx
+++ b/client/src/components/ui/SplitText.tsx
@@ -15,6 +15,17 @@ interface SplitTextProps {
   onLineCountChange?: (lineCount: number) => void;
 }
 
+const splitGraphemes = (text: string): string[] => {
+  if (typeof Intl !== 'undefined' && Intl.Segmenter) {
+    const segmenter = new Intl.Segmenter('en', { granularity: 'grapheme' });
+    const segments = segmenter.segment(text);
+    return Array.from(segments).map((s) => s.segment);
+  } else {
+    // Fallback for browsers without Intl.Segmenter
+    return [...text];
+  }
+};
+
 const SplitText: React.FC<SplitTextProps> = ({
   text = '',
   className = '',
@@ -28,7 +39,7 @@ const SplitText: React.FC<SplitTextProps> = ({
   onLetterAnimationComplete,
   onLineCountChange,
 }) => {
-  const words = text.split(' ').map((word) => word.split(''));
+  const words = text.split(' ').map(splitGraphemes);
   const letters = words.flat();
   const [inView, setInView] = useState(false);
   const ref = useRef<HTMLParagraphElement>(null);
@@ -40,12 +51,12 @@ const SplitText: React.FC<SplitTextProps> = ({
       from: animationFrom,
       to: inView
         ? async (next: (props: any) => Promise<void>) => {
-          await next(animationTo);
-          animatedCount.current += 1;
-          if (animatedCount.current === letters.length && onLetterAnimationComplete) {
-            onLetterAnimationComplete();
+            await next(animationTo);
+            animatedCount.current += 1;
+            if (animatedCount.current === letters.length && onLetterAnimationComplete) {
+              onLetterAnimationComplete();
+            }
           }
-        }
         : animationFrom,
       delay: i * delay,
       config: { easing },