We may look into changing the messaging here because it seems to be a source of confusing.
The reason the message that Emotes are disabled is being displayed is because Emotes can’t be played due to the way the character is set up in the game. Either the Animate script is overridden by a version that does not support Emotes or the HumanoidDescription is not present or has been modified or initialized in a way that does not include users Emotes.