# Birthday cake emoji displayed on profile when its not your birthday

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/birthday-cake-emoji-displayed-on-profile-when-its-not-your-birthday/299023
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** cakeday, fixed
**Created:** [March 12, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/birthday-cake-emoji-displayed-on-profile-when-its-not-your-birthday/299023 "2024-03-12T13:53:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![zfhrp7](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zfhrp7/32/370127_2.png) [@zfhrp7](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zfhrp7)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/birthday-cake-emoji-displayed-on-profile-when-its-not-your-birthday/299023/1 "2024-03-12T13:53:43Z")

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Anniversarry/birthday cakes remains when I move to mypage from a birthday-user page.

repro:

1. go to birthday user summary page
  - such as [https://meta.discourse.org/u/BIRTHDAY\_USER/summary](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BIRTHDAY_USER/summary)

2. move to my own summary page with right-top menu
3. then I have a cake, wow!

I think this is a very minor and cute bug/behavior.  
I am delighted to discover this.

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### Author: ![ondrej](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ondrej/32/198804_2.png) [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/birthday-cake-emoji-displayed-on-profile-when-its-not-your-birthday/299023/2 "2024-03-12T14:14:34Z")

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I can repro this. I’ve added a video for clarity 😉

https://www.youtube.com/embed/sj60JS6eHw0?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque

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### Author: ![twofoursixeight](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/twofoursixeight/32/574822_2.png) [@twofoursixeight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/twofoursixeight)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2025, 5:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/birthday-cake-emoji-displayed-on-profile-when-its-not-your-birthday/299023/4 "2025-04-05T05:07:50Z")

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Short explanation: When opening a profile with cakeday, then clicking on another profile, the cake symbol is still there and persistent until you refresh the profile.

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### Author: ![ondrej](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ondrej/32/198804_2.png) [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2025, 10:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/birthday-cake-emoji-displayed-on-profile-when-its-not-your-birthday/299023/5 "2025-04-05T10:24:49Z")

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This was reported a while back too. 👀

> [@Birthday cake emoji displayed on profile when its not your birthday](https://meta.discourse.org/t/birthday-cake-emoji-displayed-on-profile-when-its-not-your-birthday/299023):
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> Anniversarry/birthday cakes remains when I move to mypage from a birthday-user page. repro: go to birthday user summary page such as [https://meta.discourse.org/u/BIRTHDAY\_USER/summary](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BIRTHDAY_USER/summary) move to my own summary page with right-top menu then I have a cake, wow! I think this is a very minor and cute bug/behavior. I am delighted to discover this.

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### Author: ![yuriy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/yuriy/32/498097_2.png) [@yuriy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yuriy)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2025, 4:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/birthday-cake-emoji-displayed-on-profile-when-its-not-your-birthday/299023/8 "2025-06-17T04:56:29Z")

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@zfhrp7, the bug is fixed now.

FYI, code changes done in [FIX: makes user-cakeday props reactive by yuriyaran · Pull Request #162 · discourse/discourse-cakeday · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-cakeday/pull/162).

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### Author: ![yuriy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/yuriy/32/498097_2.png) [@yuriy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yuriy)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2025, 5:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/birthday-cake-emoji-displayed-on-profile-when-its-not-your-birthday/299023/10 "2025-06-19T05:57:45Z")

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