diff --git a/data.py b/data.py
index 43cd372..0aa98a4 100644
--- a/data.py
+++ b/data.py
@@ -82,27 +82,28 @@ class MsgData:
             LOGGER.info(f'Added message id {message.id} from {message.author}: {message.content}')
 
     async def update_reaction(self, msg: discord.Message):
-        async with self.lock:
-            # Drop all the reactions for this message id, if there are any
-            try:
+        # Drop all the reactions for this message id, if there are any
+        try:
+            async with self.lock:
                 self.reactions.drop(msg.id, level=0, axis=0, inplace=True)
-            except KeyError as e:
-                pass
+        except KeyError as e:
+            pass
 
-            # If there are reactions on the message after the change
-            if len(msg.reactions) > 0:
-                new = reaction_df(msg)
+        # If there are reactions on the message after the change
+        if len(msg.reactions) > 0:
+            new = reaction_df(msg)
+            async with self.lock:
                 self.reactions = pd.concat([self.reactions, new])
-                LOGGER.info(str(new.droplevel(level=0, axis=0).loc[:, 'count']))
+            LOGGER.info(str(new.droplevel(level=0, axis=0).loc[:, 'count']))
 
-                if msg.id not in self.msgs.index:
-                    await self.add_msg(msg)
+            if msg.id not in self.msgs.index:
+                await self.add_msg(msg)
 
-                return new
+            return new
 
     def emoji_messages(self, emoji_name: str, days: int = None) -> pd.DataFrame:
         """Creates a DataFrame of the messages that have reactions with a certain emoji. Includes a 'count' column"""
-        counts: pd.DataFrame = self.emoji_counts(emoji_name)
+        counts: pd.Series = self.emoji_counts(emoji_name)
 
         # Get the ids of messages that that have the targeted emoji
         message_id_counts: pd.Index = counts.index.drop_duplicates()
@@ -117,10 +118,11 @@ class MsgData:
 
             res['count'] = counts
 
-            if days is not None:
+            if days is not None and days > 0:
                 res = res[res['created'] >= (datetime.today() - timedelta(days=days)).astimezone()]
 
             return res.sort_values('created', ascending=False)
+
         else:
             raise KeyError(f'No messages found with {emoji_name} reactions')
 
diff --git a/robopage.py b/robopage.py
index a4fe34d..ca3954b 100644
--- a/robopage.py
+++ b/robopage.py
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-import json
 import logging
 import os
 import re
-from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Union
+
 import discord
 from discord import RawReactionActionEvent, RawReactionClearEmojiEvent
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
@@ -28,16 +27,13 @@ class RoboPage(discord.Client):
         self.jokes = list(attrs)
         self.most_regex = re.compile(
             "^who is the most (?P<emoji>\w+)(?: in the past (?P<days>\d+) days)?\??$",
-            re.IGNORECASE
+            re.IGNORECASE & re.UNICODE,
         )
         self.leaderboard_regex = re.compile(
-            '^most (?P<emoji>\w+)(?=(?:.+)?leaderboard)(?:.+(?P<days>\d+) days)?',
-            re.IGNORECASE
+            '^most (?P<emoji>.+)(?=(?:.+)?leaderboard)(?:.+(?P<days>\d+) days)?',
+            re.IGNORECASE & re.UNICODE
         )
 
-        with Path('gifs.json').open('r') as file:
-            self.gifs = json.load(file)
-
     def run(self):
         return super().run(os.getenv('DISCORD_TOKEN'))
 
@@ -48,9 +44,10 @@ class RoboPage(discord.Client):
 
         self.data: data.MsgData = await data.MsgData.create(
             client=self,
-            # limit=5000,
-            limit=20,
-            # days=30,
+            limit=5000,
+            days=30,
+            # limit=500,
+            # days=3,
         )
         self.data.to_sql('messages.db')
         LOGGER.info(f'{self.data.msgs.shape[0]} messages total')
@@ -62,11 +59,11 @@ class RoboPage(discord.Client):
                 await self.data.add_msg(message)
 
                 if (m := self.leaderboard_regex.match(message.content)) is not None:
-                    days = int(m.group('days')) or 14
-                    emoji = m.group('emoji').lower()
+                    days = m.group('days') or 14
+                    emoji = m.group('emoji').lower().strip()
                     try:
                         await message.reply(
-                            await self.data.emoji_leaderboard(client=self, emoji_name=emoji, days=days)
+                            await self.data.emoji_leaderboard(client=self, emoji_name=emoji, days=int(days))
                         )
                     except KeyError as e:
                         LOGGER.exception(e)
@@ -74,14 +71,16 @@ class RoboPage(discord.Client):
                         return
 
                 elif (m := self.most_regex.match(message.content)) is not None:
-                    days = int(m.group('days')) or 14
-                    emoji = m.group('emoji').lower()
+                    days = m.group('days') or 14
+                    emoji = m.group('emoji').lower().strip()
                     try:
                         await message.reply(
-                            await self.data.biggest_single(client=self, emoji=emoji, days=days))
+                            await self.data.biggest_single(client=self, emoji=emoji, days=int(days)))
                     except IndexError as e:
                         await message.reply('NObody')
                         return
+            else:
+                LOGGER.warning(f'No self.data attribute')
 
             for joke in self.jokes:
                 if (scan_res := joke.scan(message)):