diff --git a/code/__HELPERS/text.dm b/code/__HELPERS/text.dm
index 46ad9412aa4..6ae3a434206 100644
--- a/code/__HELPERS/text.dm
+++ b/code/__HELPERS/text.dm
@@ -25,19 +25,6 @@
  * Text sanitization
  */
 
-//this proc strips html properly, but it's not lazy like the other procs.
-//this means that it doesn't just remove < and > and call it a day. seriously, who the fuck thought that would be useful.
-/proc/strip_html_properly(var/input)
-	var/opentag = 1 //These store the position of < and > respectively.
-	var/closetag = 1
-	while(1)
-		opentag = findtext(input, "<")
-		closetag = findtext(input, ">")
-		if(!closetag || !opentag)
-			break
-		input = copytext(input, 1, opentag) + copytext(input, (closetag + 1))
-	return input
-
 //Simply removes < and > and limits the length of the message
 /proc/strip_html_simple(var/t,var/limit=MAX_MESSAGE_LEN)
 	var/list/strip_chars = list("<",">")