diff --git a/app/soapbox/actions/status_hover_card.js b/app/soapbox/actions/status-hover-card.js
similarity index 100%
rename from app/soapbox/actions/status_hover_card.js
rename to app/soapbox/actions/status-hover-card.js
diff --git a/app/soapbox/components/hover_status_wrapper.tsx b/app/soapbox/components/hover-status-wrapper.tsx
similarity index 97%
rename from app/soapbox/components/hover_status_wrapper.tsx
rename to app/soapbox/components/hover-status-wrapper.tsx
index 580fdaaf9..6860762e7 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/components/hover_status_wrapper.tsx
+++ b/app/soapbox/components/hover-status-wrapper.tsx
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { useDispatch } from 'react-redux';
 import {
   openStatusHoverCard,
   closeStatusHoverCard,
-} from 'soapbox/actions/status_hover_card';
+} from 'soapbox/actions/status-hover-card';
 import { isMobile } from 'soapbox/is_mobile';
 
 const showStatusHoverCard = debounce((dispatch, ref, statusId) => {
diff --git a/app/soapbox/components/status-hover-card.tsx b/app/soapbox/components/status-hover-card.tsx
index a68bfd9fa..379d4b6e2 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/components/status-hover-card.tsx
+++ b/app/soapbox/components/status-hover-card.tsx
@@ -8,15 +8,16 @@ import { fetchRelationships } from 'soapbox/actions/accounts';
 import {
   closeStatusHoverCard,
   updateStatusHoverCard,
-} from 'soapbox/actions/status_hover_card';
+} from 'soapbox/actions/status-hover-card';
 import ActionButton from 'soapbox/features/ui/components/action-button';
 import BundleContainer from 'soapbox/features/ui/containers/bundle_container';
 import { UserPanel } from 'soapbox/features/ui/util/async-components';
 import StatusContainer from 'soapbox/containers/status_container';
 import { useAppSelector, useAppDispatch } from 'soapbox/hooks';
 import { makeGetStatus } from 'soapbox/selectors';
+import { fetchStatus } from 'soapbox/actions/statuses';
 
-import { showStatusHoverCard } from './hover_status_wrapper';
+import { showStatusHoverCard } from './hover-status-wrapper';
 import { Card, CardBody, Stack, Text } from './ui';
 
 import type { AppDispatch } from 'soapbox/store';
@@ -49,6 +50,10 @@ export const StatusHoverCard: React.FC<IStatusHoverCard> = ({ visible = true })
   const statusId: string | undefined = useAppSelector(state => state.status_hover_card.statusId || undefined);
   const targetRef = useAppSelector(state => state.status_hover_card.ref?.current);
 
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (statusId) dispatch(fetchStatus(statusId));
+  }, [dispatch, statusId])
+
   useEffect(() => {
     const unlisten = history.listen(() => {
       showStatusHoverCard.cancel();
diff --git a/app/soapbox/components/status-reply-mentions.tsx b/app/soapbox/components/status-reply-mentions.tsx
index f52c6c7fd..3a287344a 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/components/status-reply-mentions.tsx
+++ b/app/soapbox/components/status-reply-mentions.tsx
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { Link } from 'react-router-dom';
 
 import { openModal } from 'soapbox/actions/modals';
 import HoverRefWrapper from 'soapbox/components/hover_ref_wrapper';
-import HoverStatusWrapper from 'soapbox/components/hover_status_wrapper';
+import HoverStatusWrapper from 'soapbox/components/hover-status-wrapper';
 import { useAppDispatch } from 'soapbox/hooks';
 
 import type { Account, Status } from 'soapbox/types/entities';
diff --git a/app/soapbox/reducers/index.ts b/app/soapbox/reducers/index.ts
index 7c907de75..b0d3ee03f 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/reducers/index.ts
+++ b/app/soapbox/reducers/index.ts
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ import security from './security';
 import settings from './settings';
 import sidebar from './sidebar';
 import soapbox from './soapbox';
-import status_hover_card from './status_hover_card';
+import status_hover_card from './status-hover-card';
 import status_lists from './status_lists';
 import statuses from './statuses';
 import suggestions from './suggestions';
diff --git a/app/soapbox/reducers/status_hover_card.ts b/app/soapbox/reducers/status-hover-card.ts
similarity index 95%
rename from app/soapbox/reducers/status_hover_card.ts
rename to app/soapbox/reducers/status-hover-card.ts
index 80169ab85..11c660592 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/reducers/status_hover_card.ts
+++ b/app/soapbox/reducers/status-hover-card.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import {
   STATUS_HOVER_CARD_OPEN,
   STATUS_HOVER_CARD_CLOSE,
   STATUS_HOVER_CARD_UPDATE,
-} from 'soapbox/actions/status_hover_card';
+} from 'soapbox/actions/status-hover-card';
 
 import type { AnyAction } from 'redux';