Simple UGC Emote Disabler

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With the rollout of UGC emotes, I’ve noticed that some are buggy, exploitable, or simply unwanted. While emotes are an important feature on Roblox, there doesn’t appear to be a built in way to currently disable UGC emotes This workaround filters them out, allowing only offical Roblox emotes to be used.

Eg: TikTok - Make Your Day

To handle this, I wrote a quick and simple function that blocks emotes that aren’t uploaded by Roblox, optionally replacing them with a blank placeholder, and caches emotes owned by Roblox to limit #GetProductInfo Calls.

With this patchy solution, there are some weird edge cases - some emotes are not considered Assets and will return 400 on #GetProductInfo. Eg: Charli xcx - Apple Dance

Emote Disabled Example:

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Function:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Market = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")

local ShouldEmotesBeCached = true
local ReplaceWithBlankEmote = true
local Cache = {}

local function BlockUGCEmotes(Character: Model)
	local Humanoid = Character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
	if not Humanoid then return end

	local OwnedEmotes = Humanoid.HumanoidDescription:GetEmotes()
	local RobloxEmotes = {}

	Humanoid.HumanoidDescription:AddEmote("Emote Disabled", 1)
	for _, Emote in Character.Humanoid.HumanoidDescription:GetEquippedEmotes() do
		local Success, E = pcall(function()
			local EmoteId = OwnedEmotes[Emote.Name][1]

			if ShouldEmotesBeCached and table.find(Cache, EmoteId) then

				table.insert(RobloxEmotes, {Slot = Emote.Slot, Name = Emote.Name})
				return
			end

			local MarketInfo = Market:GetProductInfo(tonumber(EmoteId), Enum.InfoType.Asset)
			if MarketInfo.Creator.Id == 1 then
				if ShouldEmotesBeCached then 
					table.insert(Cache, EmoteId) 
				end

				table.insert(RobloxEmotes, {Slot = Emote.Slot, Name = Emote.Name})
				return
			end

			warn("UGC Emote removed.")
			Humanoid.HumanoidDescription:RemoveEmote(Emote.Name)
			if ReplaceWithBlankEmote  then
				table.insert(RobloxEmotes, {Slot = Emote.Slot, Name = "Emote Disabled"})
			end
		end)
		-- There are some weird edge cases - Eg: "Charli xcx - Apple Dance"
		if not Success then
			table.insert(RobloxEmotes, {Slot = Emote.Slot, Name = Emote.Name})
		end
	end

	Humanoid.HumanoidDescription:SetEquippedEmotes(RobloxEmotes)
end
Simple Implementation 
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player: Player)

	BlockUGCEmotes(Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait())
	Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(BlockUGCEmotes)
end)

Warning

  • This is a patchy workaround until Roblox improves UGC emote moderation.
  • Will not block “edge case” emotes that fail GetProductInfo calls.
  • If Roblox later introduces official filtering, this script may be unnecessary.
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This is super useful! Judging from the fact that even official roblox emotes cause speed/wall glitches, I can imagine UGC emotes could be worse (although I honestly haven’t checked). This could be super useful for fighting games or smth like that

Also, when I click on this link link it doesnt work so maybe thats the issue (although you def know more about this than me so what do I know)

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The emote page loads for me but doesn’t render any information like other emotes do

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This is very useful, though I would certainly have to agree that Roblox should introduce some kind of official filtering that would set it to only allow Roblox official emotes to be used.

I am very interested to see what Roblox’s response to this whole emote abuse issue will be.

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