diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 01c49ca34..af86fe273 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@
 - Bugfix: Fixed moderator-only topics being subscribed to for non-moderators. (#5056)
 - Bugfix: Truncated IRC messages to be at most 512 bytes. (#5246)
 - Bugfix: Fixed a data race when disconnecting from Twitch PubSub. (#4771)
+- Bugfix: Fixed messages not immediately disappearing when clearing the chat. (#5282)
 - Dev: Run miniaudio in a separate thread, and simplify it to not manage the device ourselves. There's a chance the simplification is a bad idea. (#4978)
 - Dev: Change clang-format from v14 to v16. (#4929)
 - Dev: Fixed UTF16 encoding of `modes` file for the installer. (#4791)
diff --git a/src/widgets/helper/ChannelView.cpp b/src/widgets/helper/ChannelView.cpp
index 2795e5ffe..c76373d56 100644
--- a/src/widgets/helper/ChannelView.cpp
+++ b/src/widgets/helper/ChannelView.cpp
@@ -782,6 +782,7 @@ void ChannelView::clearMessages()
     this->scrollBar_->setMaximum(0);
     this->scrollBar_->setMinimum(0);
     this->queueLayout();
+    this->update();
 
     this->lastMessageHasAlternateBackground_ = false;
     this->lastMessageHasAlternateBackgroundReverse_ = true;