Making a system message use a gradient in the new textchatservice

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i’ve been trying to make a system message that includes a gradient for specific purposes using the new (yet not so new) textchatservice, though im really confused on how to achieve this, i have seen on the documentation that if you were to parent a uigradient to ChatWindowMessageProperties it would use the gradient, yet it doesn’t seem to work.

This is my current code

TextChatService.OnChatWindowAdded = function(message : TextChatMessage)
	print("hi")
	if message.Metadata == "gradient" then
		print("this is a gradient")

		local gradient = Instance.new("UIGradient")
		gradient.Color = holdGradient
		gradient.Parent = message.ChatWindowMessageProperties
	end
end

the ‘hi’ and ‘this is a gradient’ print so the code is running, yet the text doesnt receive a gradient., i do not know why