diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index deec79543..2b7630554 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 - Bugfix: Fixed an issue where animated emotes would render on top of zero-width emotes. (#4314)
 - Bugfix: Fixed an issue where it was difficult to hover a zero-width emote. (#4314)
 - Bugfix: Fixed an issue where context-menu items for zero-width emotes displayed the wrong provider. (#4460)
+- Bugfix: Fixed an issue where the "Enable zero-width emotes" setting was showing the inverse state. (#4462)
 - Dev: Ignore unhandled BTTV user-events. (#4438)
 - Dev: Only log debug messages when NDEBUG is not defined. (#4442)
 - Dev: Cleaned up theme related code. (#4450)
diff --git a/src/widgets/settingspages/GeneralPage.cpp b/src/widgets/settingspages/GeneralPage.cpp
index b016d68a1..27e9d94a7 100644
--- a/src/widgets/settingspages/GeneralPage.cpp
+++ b/src/widgets/settingspages/GeneralPage.cpp
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ void GeneralPage::initLayout(GeneralPageView &layout)
     layout.addCheckbox("Animate only when Chatterino is focused",
                        s.animationsWhenFocused);
     layout.addCheckbox(
-        "Enable zero-width emotes", s.enableZeroWidthEmotes,
+        "Enable zero-width emotes", s.enableZeroWidthEmotes, false,
         "When disabled, emotes that overlap other emotes, such as BTTV's "
         "cvMask and 7TV's RainTime, will appear as normal emotes.");
     layout.addCheckbox("Enable emote auto-completion by typing :",