diff --git a/plugins/counter/counter_test.go b/plugins/counter/counter_test.go
index 4911c92..b0b233a 100644
--- a/plugins/counter/counter_test.go
+++ b/plugins/counter/counter_test.go
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ func TestTeaEarlGreyHot(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.NotNil(t, c)
 	c.Message(makeMessage("Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."))
 	c.Message(makeMessage("Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."))
-	item, err := GetItem(mb.DB(), "tester", "🍵")
+	item, err := GetItem(mb.DB(), "tester", ":tea:")
 	assert.Nil(t, err)
 	assert.Equal(t, 2, item.Count)
 }
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ func TestTeaGreenHot(t *testing.T) {
 	c.Message(makeMessage("Tea. Green. Hot."))
 	c.Message(makeMessage("Tea. Green. Hot"))
 	c.Message(makeMessage("Tea. Green. Iced."))
-	item, err := GetItem(mb.DB(), "tester", "🍵")
+	item, err := GetItem(mb.DB(), "tester", ":tea:")
 	assert.Nil(t, err)
 	assert.Equal(t, 3, item.Count)
 }
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ func TestTeaUnrelated(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.NotNil(t, c)
 	c.Message(makeMessage("Tea."))
 	c.Message(makeMessage("Tea. It's great."))
-	item, err := GetItem(mb.DB(), "tester", "🍵")
+	item, err := GetItem(mb.DB(), "tester", ":tea:")
 	assert.Nil(t, err)
 	assert.Equal(t, 0, item.Count)
 }
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ func TestTeaSkieselQuote(t *testing.T) {
 	c := New(mb)
 	assert.NotNil(t, c)
 	c.Message(makeMessage("blah, this is a whole page of explanation where \"we did local search and used a tabu list\" would have sufficed"))
-	item, err := GetItem(mb.DB(), "tester", "🍵")
+	item, err := GetItem(mb.DB(), "tester", ":tea:")
 	assert.Nil(t, err)
 	assert.Equal(t, 0, item.Count)
 }