diff --git a/src/components/channelscellrenderer.cpp b/src/components/channelscellrenderer.cpp
index bbe19e7..3f10330 100644
--- a/src/components/channelscellrenderer.cpp
+++ b/src/components/channelscellrenderer.cpp
@@ -39,7 +39,10 @@ void RenderExpander(int x_offset, const Cairo::RefPtr<Cairo::Context> &cr, Gtk::
     cr->move_to(x1, y1);
     cr->line_to(x2, y2);
     cr->line_to(x3, y3);
-    const auto expander_color = widget.get_style_context()->get_background_color(Gtk::STATE_FLAG_SELECTED);
+    auto expander_color = Gdk::RGBA(Abaddon::Get().GetSettings().ChannelsExpanderColor);
+    if (expander_color.get_alpha_u() == 0) {
+        expander_color = widget.get_style_context()->get_background_color(Gtk::STATE_FLAG_SELECTED);
+    }
     cr->set_source_rgb(expander_color.get_red(), expander_color.get_green(), expander_color.get_blue());
     cr->stroke();
 }
diff --git a/src/settings.hpp b/src/settings.hpp
index 67ba515..a51d93b 100644
--- a/src/settings.hpp
+++ b/src/settings.hpp
@@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ public:
         std::string UserAgent { "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.87 Safari/537.36" };
 
         // [style]
-        // TODO: convert to StyleProperty... or maybe not? i still cant figure out what the "correct" method is for this
-        std::string ChannelsExpanderColor { "rgba(255, 83, 112, 255)" };
+        std::string ChannelsExpanderColor { "rgba(255, 83, 112, 0)" };
         std::string NSFWChannelColor { "#ed6666" };
         std::string ChannelColor { "#fbfbfb" };
         std::string MentionBadgeColor { "#b82525" };