diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/helpers/icon-or-image.js.es6 b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/helpers/icon-or-image.js.es6
index 4f1ccf0d7e..d5439c7323 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/helpers/icon-or-image.js.es6
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/helpers/icon-or-image.js.es6
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@ import { iconHTML } from 'discourse-common/lib/icon-library';
 
 export default htmlHelper(function(str) {
   if (Ember.isEmpty(str)) { return ""; }
-  return (str.indexOf('fa-') === 0) ? iconHTML(str) : `<img src='${str}'>`;
+  return (str.indexOf('fa-') === 0) ? iconHTML(str.replace('fa-', '')) : `<img src='${str}'>`;
 });