diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index ec117ff3a..9e891a886 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ gem "dogstatsd-ruby", "~> 4.8" # A client for DogStatsD, an extension of the Sta
 gem "doorkeeper", "~> 5.4" # Oauth 2 provider
 gem "elasticsearch", "~> 7.9" # Powers DEVs core search functionality
 gem "email_validator", "~> 2.0" # Email validator for Rails and ActiveModel
-gem "emoji_regex", "~> 3.0" # A pair of Ruby regular expressions for matching Unicode Emoji symbols
+gem "emoji_regex", "~> 3.2" # A pair of Ruby regular expressions for matching Unicode Emoji symbols
 gem "fastly", "~> 2.5" # Client library for the Fastly acceleration system
 gem "feedjira", "~> 3.1" # A feed fetching and parsing library
 gem "field_test", "~> 0.4" # A/B testing
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index dd0176671..75b9f013e 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ GEM
       http_parser.rb (~> 0.6.0)
     email_validator (2.0.1)
       activemodel
-    emoji_regex (3.0.0)
+    emoji_regex (3.2.0)
     environs (1.1.0)
     equalizer (0.0.11)
     erb_lint (0.0.35)
@@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   dotenv-rails (~> 2.7.6)
   elasticsearch (~> 7.9)
   email_validator (~> 2.0)
-  emoji_regex (~> 3.0)
+  emoji_regex (~> 3.2)
   erb_lint (~> 0.0.34)
   exifr (>= 1.3.6)
   factory_bot_rails (~> 6.1)
diff --git a/app/lib/redcarpet/render/html_rouge.rb b/app/lib/redcarpet/render/html_rouge.rb
index 54244191d..4128ddbac 100644
--- a/app/lib/redcarpet/render/html_rouge.rb
+++ b/app/lib/redcarpet/render/html_rouge.rb
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ module Redcarpet
 
       def slugify(string)
         stripped_string = ActionView::Base.full_sanitizer.sanitize string
-        stripped_string.downcase.gsub(EmojiRegex::Regex, "").strip.gsub(/[[:punct:]]/u, "").gsub(/\s+/, "-")
+        stripped_string.downcase.gsub(EmojiRegex::RGIEmoji, "").strip.gsub(/[[:punct:]]/u, "").gsub(/\s+/, "-")
       end
     end
   end
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diff --git a/vendor/cache/emoji_regex-3.2.0.gem b/vendor/cache/emoji_regex-3.2.0.gem
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