diff --git a/panda/src/text/textNode.cxx b/panda/src/text/textNode.cxx
index 5050caf624..be904d7972 100644
--- a/panda/src/text/textNode.cxx
+++ b/panda/src/text/textNode.cxx
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ void TextNode::
 text_changed() {
   // Copy the text to this class, since TextEncoder doesn't store it in a
   // pipeline-cycled manner.
-  CDWriter cdata(_cycler);
+  CDWriter cdata(_cycler, true);
   cdata->_text = TextEncoder::get_text();
   cdata->_wtext = TextEncoder::get_wtext();
   invalidate_with_measure(cdata);