Need help with an emote player bug

[Azurethpat (faithful)]

I made an emote player. It plays the animations correctly, but for some reason it doesn’t stop. Does anyone know why?

Here’s the code:

local S_PLAYERS = game:GetService("Players")
local S_RS = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

--// VARIABLES
local PLAYER = S_PLAYERS.LocalPlayer

repeat wait() until PLAYER.Character

local CHARACTER = PLAYER.Character
local HUMANOID = CHARACTER:WaitForChild("Humanoid")

local ANIMATIONS = CHARACTER:WaitForChild("ANIMATIONS")

local MODULE_SCRIPTS = S_RS:WaitForChild("MODULE_SCRIPTS")

local EMOTE_DATA = require(MODULE_SCRIPTS.EMOTE_DATA)

local CURRENT_EMOTE = nil

--[PUBLIC]--

--// Returns all of the emotes in the module.
local function return_all_emotes()
	local emotes_table = {}
	for _, emote in EMOTE_DATA do
		if emote then
			table.insert(emotes_table, emote)
		end
	end
	return emotes_table
end

--// Adds animation instances.
local function add_animation_instances()
	local emote_table = return_all_emotes()
	for _, emote in pairs(emote_table) do
		if emote then
			local animation_instance = Instance.new("Animation")
			animation_instance.Name = emote.Name
			animation_instance.AnimationId = emote.Animation_ID
			animation_instance.Parent = ANIMATIONS
		end
	end
end

--// Loads the animation.
local function load_animation(animation)
	local animator = HUMANOID:FindFirstChild("Animator") or Instance.new("Animator", HUMANOID)
	if animator then
		for _, track in animator:GetPlayingAnimationTracks() do
			if track then
				return track
			end
		end
		local anim_track = animator:LoadAnimation(animation)
		return anim_track
	end
end

--// The main emote button.
local function emote_button(button : TextButton)
	button.MouseButton1Down:Connect(function()
		if CURRENT_EMOTE == nil then
			local animator = HUMANOID:FindFirstChild("Animator") or Instance.new("Animator", HUMANOID)
			if animator then
				CURRENT_EMOTE = animator:LoadAnimation(ANIMATIONS:WaitForChild(button.Name))
				CURRENT_EMOTE:Play()
			end
		elseif CURRENT_EMOTE ~= nil then
			if CURRENT_EMOTE == button.Name then
				CURRENT_EMOTE:Stop()
				--CURRENT_EMOTE = nil
			elseif CURRENT_EMOTE ~= button.Name then
				CURRENT_EMOTE:Stop()
				--CURRENT_EMOTE = nil
				local animator = HUMANOID:FindFirstChild("Animator") or Instance.new("Animator", HUMANOID)
				if animator then
					CURRENT_EMOTE = animator:LoadAnimation(ANIMATIONS:WaitForChild(button.Name))
					CURRENT_EMOTE:Play()
				end
			end
		end
	end)
end

--[MAIN]--

for _, emote in return_all_emotes() do
	if emote then
		local button = script:WaitForChild("EMOTE_PLACEHOLDER"):Clone()
		button.Name = emote.Name
		button.Text = emote.Name
		button.Parent = script.Parent:WaitForChild("EMOTES_HOLDER"):WaitForChild("SCROLLING_FRAME")
	end
end

for _, button in script.Parent:WaitForChild("EMOTES_HOLDER"):WaitForChild("SCROLLING_FRAME"):GetChildren() do
	if button then
		if button:IsA("TextButton") then
			emote_button(button)
			task.wait(0.1)
		end
	end
end

script.Parent:WaitForChild("EMOTES").Activated:Connect(function()
	script.Parent:WaitForChild("EMOTES_HOLDER").Visible = not script.Parent:WaitForChild("EMOTES_HOLDER").Visible
end)

while task.wait() do
	if #ANIMATIONS:GetChildren() == 0 then
		add_animation_instances()
	end
end

The module script only stores the name of the animation, and the animation ID.

[Mystxry12 (Mystxry)]

if CURRENT_EMOTE.Animation.Name == button.Name then
	CURRENT_EMOTE:Stop()
	--CURRENT_EMOTE = nil
elseif CURRENT_EMOTE.Animation.Name ~= button.Name then
	CURRENT_EMOTE:Stop()
	--CURRENT_EMOTE = nil
	local animator = HUMANOID:FindFirstChild("Animator") or Instance.new("Animator", HUMANOID)
	if animator then
		CURRENT_EMOTE = animator:LoadAnimation(ANIMATIONS:WaitForChild(button.Name))
		CURRENT_EMOTE:Play()
	end
end

@Azurethpat In case you were wondering, you were initially comparing an Instance == string, which returned false ofc. My current code compares the name of the animation of the current track (string) == button.Name (string)and they will be equal since your animations are named the same as your buttons.