diff --git a/r2/r2/lib/pages/pages.py b/r2/r2/lib/pages/pages.py
index cdbab52f6..b8a27d259 100644
--- a/r2/r2/lib/pages/pages.py
+++ b/r2/r2/lib/pages/pages.py
@@ -485,14 +485,23 @@ class SubredditInfoBar(CachedTemplate):
     def __init__(self, site = None):
         site = site or c.site
 
-        #hackity hack. do i need to add all the others props?
+        # hackity hack. do i need to add all the others props?
         self.sr = list(wrap_links(site))[0]
 
         # we want to cache on the number of subscribers
         self.subscribers = self.sr._ups
 
-        #so the menus cache properly
+        # so the menus cache properly
         self.path = request.path
+
+        # if user has flair, then it will be displayed in this bar
+        self.flair_user = None
+        if c.user_is_loggedin:
+            wrapped_user = WrappedUser(c.user, subreddit=self.sr,
+                                       force_show_flair=True)
+            if wrapped_user.has_flair:
+                self.flair_user = wrapped_user
+
         CachedTemplate.__init__(self)
 
     def nav(self):
diff --git a/r2/r2/templates/subredditinfobar.html b/r2/r2/templates/subredditinfobar.html
index 148a179f5..7c71b3efd 100644
--- a/r2/r2/templates/subredditinfobar.html
+++ b/r2/r2/templates/subredditinfobar.html
@@ -36,24 +36,19 @@
              hidden_data = dict(id = thing.sr._fullname))}
 </%def>
 
-<%def name="flair_control(user, sr)">
-  %if c.user_is_loggedin:
-    <%
-      wrapped_user = WrappedUser(user, subreddit=sr, force_show_flair=True)
-    %>
-    %if wrapped_user.has_flair:
-      <form class="toggle flairtoggle">
-        <input id="flair_enabled" type="checkbox" name="flair_enabled"
-            %if wrapped_user.flair_enabled:
-              checked="checked"
-            %endif
-            >
-        ${_("Show my flair on this reddit. It looks like:")}
-        <div class="tagline">
-          ${wrapped_user}
-        </div>
-      </form>
-    %endif
+<%def name="flair_control(flair_user)">
+  %if flair_user:
+    <form class="toggle flairtoggle">
+      <input id="flair_enabled" type="checkbox" name="flair_enabled"
+          %if flair_user.flair_enabled:
+            checked="checked"
+          %endif
+          >
+      ${_("Show my flair on this reddit. It looks like:")}
+      <div class="tagline">
+        ${flair_user}
+      </div>
+    </form>
   %endif
 </%def>
 
@@ -80,7 +75,7 @@
                       _("you are no longer an approved submitter"))}
   %endif
 
-  ${flair_control(c.user, thing.sr)}
+  ${flair_control(thing.flair_user)}
 
   %if thing.sr.description:
     ${thing.sr.usertext}