Character counter breaks after adding EmojiOne Area

I have a character counter for my textarea that was working great until I added EmojiOne Area. The emoji picker now works great, but my character counter stopped working. For some reason the keyup is no longer working off of the ID.

HTML

<textarea id="message" class="form-control" placeholder="Enter text here..."></textarea> 
<label><span id="chars" class="lead">140</span></label> characters left

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JavaScript

/*emojioneArea */
$(document).ready(function() {
  $("#message").emojioneArea({
    pickerPosition: "bottom",
    tonesStyle: "bullet"
  });
});

/*Character Counter */
function countChar(val) {
  var len = val.value.length;

  if (len >= 140) {
    val.value = val.value.substring(0, 140);
    $('#stat span').text(0);
  } else {
    $('#stat span').text(140 - len);
  }
}
countChar($('#message').get(0));
$('#message').keyup(function() {
  countChar(this);
});

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JSFiddle.
Jordan BenettAsked:
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Banshi lal dangiFull Stack DeveloperCommented:
As I can see there are few problems with you code. So I corrected the same and following is the updated working code with emojionearea and character count.
FYI - I came to got that, the same problem was also asked over the Stackoverflow and the below solution worked fine there as well. And Hope it will work for you as well.

/*emojioneArea */
   $(document).ready(function() {
         $("#message").emojioneArea({
                       pickerPosition: "bottom",
                       tonesStyle: "bullet",
                       events: {
                         keyup: function (editor, event) {
                           console.log('event:keyup');
                           countChar(this);
                        }
                      }
               });
    }); 

   /*Character Counter */
        function countChar(val) {
            var len = val.getText().length;
            if (len >= 140) {
                  val.value = val.content.substring(0, 140);
                  $('#chars').text(0);
            } else {
                 $('#chars').text(140 - len);
            }
        }

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Jordan BenettAuthor Commented:
Banshi, thank you for the solution, can you please share the Fiddle link, as I am not able to run it.
Banshi lal dangiFull Stack DeveloperCommented:
Sure Jordan, please find the fiddle link - Fiddle
Jordan BenettAuthor Commented:
Thanks a lot Banshi, That worked great!
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