If statement broken for strings, how do I fix it?

So, I'm receiving the text from a twitch chat into C3, but when I want to perform an action based on the letter I got, the if statement breaks and doesn't go through. I'm triple checking for it, for example, when I get the "a" letter, (I console.log, debug view and on-screen text), but it just doesn't passes the if statement. What am I doing wrong?

Also, I tried with a number and a global number variable, I check for a 1 for example, and it does passes with a number, so there is an issue with checking for strings.