diff --git a/AK/Utf16View.h b/AK/Utf16View.h
index d752e602db3..715a66582e3 100644
--- a/AK/Utf16View.h
+++ b/AK/Utf16View.h
@@ -78,13 +78,8 @@ public:
                 if (UnicodeUtils::is_utf16_low_surrogate(next_code_unit))
                     return UnicodeUtils::decode_utf16_surrogate_pair(code_unit, next_code_unit);
             }
-
-            return UnicodeUtils::REPLACEMENT_CODE_POINT;
         }
 
-        if (UnicodeUtils::is_utf16_low_surrogate(code_unit))
-            return UnicodeUtils::REPLACEMENT_CODE_POINT;
-
         return static_cast<u32>(code_unit);
     }
 
diff --git a/Tests/AK/TestUtf16View.cpp b/Tests/AK/TestUtf16View.cpp
index 7db9edad5bd..00137a8ea49 100644
--- a/Tests/AK/TestUtf16View.cpp
+++ b/Tests/AK/TestUtf16View.cpp
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ TEST_CASE(decode_invalid_utf16)
         Utf16View view { u"AB\xd800"sv };
         EXPECT_EQ(view.length_in_code_units(), 3uz);
 
-        auto expected = Array { (u32)0x41, 0x42, 0xfffd };
+        auto expected = Array { (u32)0x41, 0x42, 0xd800 };
         EXPECT_EQ(expected.size(), view.length_in_code_points());
 
         size_t i = 0;
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ TEST_CASE(decode_invalid_utf16)
         Utf16View view { u"AB\xdc00"sv };
         EXPECT_EQ(view.length_in_code_units(), 3uz);
 
-        auto expected = Array { (u32)0x41, 0x42, 0xfffd };
+        auto expected = Array { (u32)0x41, 0x42, 0xdc00 };
         EXPECT_EQ(expected.size(), view.length_in_code_points());
 
         size_t i = 0;
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ TEST_CASE(decode_invalid_utf16)
         Utf16View view { u"AB\xd800\x0000"sv };
         EXPECT_EQ(view.length_in_code_units(), 4uz);
 
-        auto expected = Array { (u32)0x41, 0x42, 0xfffd, 0 };
+        auto expected = Array { (u32)0x41, 0x42, 0xd800, 0 };
         EXPECT_EQ(expected.size(), view.length_in_code_points());
 
         size_t i = 0;
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ TEST_CASE(decode_invalid_utf16)
         Utf16View view { u"AB\xd800\xd800"sv };
         EXPECT_EQ(view.length_in_code_units(), 4uz);
 
-        auto expected = Array { (u32)0x41, 0x42, 0xfffd, 0xfffd };
+        auto expected = Array { (u32)0x41, 0x42, 0xd800, 0xd800 };
         EXPECT_EQ(expected.size(), view.length_in_code_points());
 
         size_t i = 0;