diff --git a/src/components/HTMLContent.tsx b/src/components/HTMLContent.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index a94448c..0000000
--- a/src/components/HTMLContent.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-import * as htmlparser2 from "htmlparser2";
-
-import type { Mention, Tag } from "@/lib/api/entities/activity";
-import type { CustomEmoji } from "@/lib/api/entities/custom_emoji";
-import { Text, type ChildNode, Element } from "domhandler";
-
-interface Props {
-	content: string;
-	emoji: CustomEmoji[];
-	tags?: Tag[];
-	mentions?: Mention[];
-}
-
-const parser = new DOMParser();
-
-export default function HTMLContent(props: Props) {
-	let { content } = props;
-	// emoji are always in their shortcode form
-	props.emoji.forEach((emoji) => {
-		content = content.replace(new RegExp(`:${emoji.shortcode}:`, "g"), customEmojiElement(emoji));
-	});
-
-	const dom = htmlparser2.parseDocument(content);
-	const elements = parseElement(dom.children);
-
-	console.log(dom);
-
-	return elements;
-}
-
-const customEmojiElement = (emoji: CustomEmoji) => {
-	const elem = document.createElement("x-emoji");
-	elem.setAttribute("emoji", emoji.shortcode);
-	return elem.outerHTML;
-};
-
-function parseElement(elems: ChildNode[]) {
-	const out = [];
-	for (const elem of elems) {
-		if (elem instanceof Text) out.push(<>{elem.data}</>);
-	}
-}
diff --git a/src/components/status/VulStatusContent.vue b/src/components/status/VulStatusContent.vue
index d7686b3..2d7ffa5 100644
--- a/src/components/status/VulStatusContent.vue
+++ b/src/components/status/VulStatusContent.vue
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { ref } from "vue";
 import { useI18n } from "vue-i18n";
 import type Activity from "@/lib/api/entities/activity";
 import { FwbButton } from "flowbite-vue";
-import HTMLContent from "../HTMLContent";
+import HTMLContent from "./content/HTMLContent";
 
 const { status } = defineProps<{ status: Activity }>();
 
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ const isCollapsed = ref(!!status.spoiler_text);
 				}}
 			</FwbButton>
 		</div>
-		<div v-if="!isCollapsed" v-html="status.content || 'N/A'"></div>
 		<HTMLContent
 			v-if="!isCollapsed && status.content"
 			:content="status.content"
diff --git a/src/components/status/content/HTMLContent.tsx b/src/components/status/content/HTMLContent.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bf66b7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/status/content/HTMLContent.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+import * as htmlparser2 from "htmlparser2";
+import { h } from "vue";
+
+import type { Mention, Tag } from "@/lib/api/entities/activity";
+import type { CustomEmoji } from "@/lib/api/entities/custom_emoji";
+import { Document, Text, type ChildNode, Element } from "domhandler";
+
+import VulEmoji from "./VulEmoji.vue";
+import VulMention from "./VulMention.vue";
+import VulHashtag from "./VulHashtag.vue";
+
+interface Props {
+	content: string;
+	emoji: CustomEmoji[];
+	tags?: Tag[];
+	mentions?: Mention[];
+}
+
+export default function HTMLContent(props: Props) {
+	let { content } = props;
+	// emoji are always in their shortcode form
+	props.emoji.forEach((emoji) => {
+		content = content.replace(new RegExp(`:${emoji.shortcode}:`, "g"), customEmojiElement(emoji));
+	});
+
+	const dom = htmlparser2.parseDocument(content);
+	const elements = parseElement(dom, props.emoji, props.tags || [], props.mentions || []);
+
+	return (
+		<>
+			<code>
+				<pre>{dom}</pre>
+			</code>
+			{elements}
+		</>
+	);
+}
+
+/** Create a custom emoji element and return its string representation.
+ * Akkoma server renders HTML but keeps emoji in their shortcode form,
+ * so we turn it into a fake custom element so parseElement knows what to do with it.
+ */
+const customEmojiElement = (emoji: CustomEmoji) => {
+	const elem = document.createElement("x-emoji");
+	elem.setAttribute("emoji", emoji.shortcode);
+	return elem.outerHTML;
+};
+
+/** Recursively parses an element into a JSX representation. */
+function parseElement(elem: ChildNode, emoji: CustomEmoji[], tags: Tag[], mentions: Mention[]) {
+	const out = [] as JSX.Element[];
+
+	if (elem instanceof Document) {
+		// root, start parsing elements
+		out.push(...(elem.children as ChildNode[]).map((e) => parseElement(e, emoji, tags, mentions)).flat());
+	} else if (elem instanceof Text) {
+		// text node, just add it to the output unmodified
+		out.push(<>{elem.data}</>);
+	} else if (elem instanceof Element) {
+		console.log(elem.name, elem.attribs);
+
+		switch (elem.name) {
+			case "x-emoji":
+				// Turn <x-emoji> into a VulEmoji component
+				out.push(h(VulEmoji, { emoji: emoji.find((e) => e.shortcode === elem.attribs["emoji"]!)! }));
+				break;
+
+			case "span":
+				// check if this is a mention
+				if ("class" in elem.attribs && elem.attribs.class === "h-card") {
+					// if so, parse that mention and add a component for it
+					if (elem.children.length === 0) throw "Invalid mention, span with type h-card doesn't have child";
+					const userId = (elem.children[0] as Element).attribs["data-user"];
+					const user = mentions.find((m) => m.id === userId);
+					if (!user) throw "Invalid mention, user is not found in Status.mentions";
+					out.push(h(VulMention, { mention: user }));
+				} else {
+					// else, just treat it as a normal span
+					out.push(
+						h(
+							elem.name,
+							elem.attribs,
+							elem.children.map((e) => parseElement(e, emoji, tags, mentions)),
+						),
+					);
+				}
+				break;
+
+			case "a":
+				// check if this is a hashtag
+				if (elem.attribs.class == "hashtag") {
+					// if so, get the hashtag and add a VulHashtag component
+					const tagName = elem.attribs["data-tag"];
+					const tag = tags.find((t) => t.name === tagName);
+					if (!tag) throw "Invalid hashtag, tag is not found in Status.tags";
+					out.push(h(VulHashtag, { tag: tag }));
+				} else {
+					// else, just treat it as a normal element
+					out.push(
+						h(
+							elem.name,
+							{ ...elem.attribs, target: "_blank" },
+							elem.children.map((e) => parseElement(e, emoji, tags, mentions)),
+						),
+					);
+				}
+				break;
+
+			default:
+				out.push(
+					h(
+						elem.name,
+						elem.attribs,
+						elem.children.map((e) => parseElement(e, emoji, tags, mentions)),
+					),
+				);
+				break;
+		}
+
+		h(elem.name, {});
+	}
+
+	return out;
+}
diff --git a/src/components/VulEmoji.vue b/src/components/status/content/VulEmoji.vue
similarity index 52%
rename from src/components/VulEmoji.vue
rename to src/components/status/content/VulEmoji.vue
index a986b4d..bd63a16 100644
--- a/src/components/VulEmoji.vue
+++ b/src/components/status/content/VulEmoji.vue
@@ -5,5 +5,12 @@ defineProps<{ emoji: CustomEmoji }>();
 </script>
 
 <template>
-	<img class="inline-emoji" :src="emoji.url" :alt="emoji.shortcode" />
+	<img class="emoji" :src="emoji.url" :alt="emoji.shortcode" :title="emoji.shortcode" />
 </template>
+
+<style>
+.emoji {
+	display: inline;
+	height: 38px;
+}
+</style>
diff --git a/src/components/status/content/VulHashtag.vue b/src/components/status/content/VulHashtag.vue
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8983a20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/status/content/VulHashtag.vue
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<script setup lang="ts">
+import type { Tag } from "@/lib/api/entities/activity";
+
+defineProps<{ tag: Tag }>();
+</script>
+
+<template>
+	<span class="text-sky-600 underline hover:text-sky-700 dark:text-sky-300 dark:hover:text-sky-400">
+		<RouterLink :to="`/tags/${tag.name}`">#{{ tag.name }}</RouterLink>
+	</span>
+</template>
diff --git a/src/components/status/content/VulMention.vue b/src/components/status/content/VulMention.vue
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aecbcde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/status/content/VulMention.vue
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<script setup lang="ts">
+import type { Mention } from "@/lib/api/entities/activity";
+
+defineProps<{ mention: Mention }>();
+</script>
+
+<template>
+	<span class="bg-gray-400 dark:bg-gray-700 hover:bg-gray-500 dark:hover:bg-gray-600 p-1 rounded-full">
+		<RouterLink :to="`/@${mention.acct}`">@{{ mention.acct }}</RouterLink>
+	</span>
+</template>