diff --git a/app/controllers/reactions_controller.rb b/app/controllers/reactions_controller.rb
index e78ba3b60..4343c2d01 100644
--- a/app/controllers/reactions_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/reactions_controller.rb
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class ReactionsController < ApplicationController
 
       reactions = if session_current_user_id
                     comment_ids = reaction_counts.map { |rc| rc[:id] }
-                    cached_user_public_reactions(current_user).where(reactable_id: comment_ids)
+                    Reaction.where(id: cached_user_public_reaction_ids(current_user), reactable_id: comment_ids)
                   else
                     Reaction.none
                   end
@@ -102,14 +102,14 @@ class ReactionsController < ApplicationController
     render json: { result: result, category: category }
   end
 
-  def cached_user_public_reactions(user)
-    Rails.cache.fetch("cached-user-reactions-#{user.id}-#{user.public_reactions_count}", expires_in: 24.hours) do
-      user.reactions.public_category
+  private
+
+  def cached_user_public_reaction_ids(user)
+    Rails.cache.fetch("cached-user-#{user.id}-reaction-ids-#{user.public_reactions_count}", expires_in: 24.hours) do
+      user.reactions.public_category.pluck(:id)
     end
   end
 
-  private
-
   def build_reaction(category)
     create_params = {
       user_id: current_user.id,
diff --git a/spec/requests/reactions_spec.rb b/spec/requests/reactions_spec.rb
index fe445f0d7..779fd4e85 100644
--- a/spec/requests/reactions_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/reactions_spec.rb
@@ -87,11 +87,11 @@ RSpec.describe "Reactions", type: :request do
       end
 
       it "returns the correct json response" do
-        result = response.parsed_body
-
-        expect(result["current_user"]).to eq("id" => user.id)
-        expect(result["public_reaction_counts"]).to eq([{ "id" => article.comments.last.id, "count" => 1 }])
-        expect(result["reactions"].to_json).to eq(user.reactions.where(reactable: comment).to_json)
+        expect(response.parsed_body).to eq(
+          "current_user" => { "id" => user.id },
+          "public_reaction_counts" => [{ "id" => article.comments.last.id, "count" => 1 }],
+          "reactions" => JSON.parse(user.reactions.where(reactable: comment).to_json),
+        )
       end
 
       it "does not set surrogate key headers" do