'IntersectionObserver.unobserve() not working in useEffect

I'm using intersection observer to use a fade in animation once, at first i was using the react intersection observer, but i didn't know how to use the unobserve custom hook and trying to make a counter of animation to trigger the animation only once didn't work.

Going back to normal intersection observer in a useEffect looks like this:

const aboutRef = useRef();
  const [elementIsVisible, setElementIsVisible] = useState();
  useEffect(() => {
    const observer = new IntersectionObserver((entries) => {
      const entry = entries[0];
      setElementIsVisible(entry.isIntersecting);
    });
    observer.observe(aboutRef.current);
  }, []);
 <section className="about" id="about" ref={aboutRef}>
    <div
       className={`styled-text ${
         elementIsVisible ? "styled-text-animation" : ""
       }`}
    >
    </div>
    <div
       className={`styled-pic ${
         elementIsVisible ? "styled-pic-animation" : ""
       }`}
    >
    </div>
</section>

I tried using unobserve like this:

  useEffect(() => {
    const observer = new IntersectionObserver((entries) => {
      const entry = entries[0];
      setElementIsVisible(entry.isIntersecting);
    });
    observer.observe(aboutRef.current);
    if (setElementIsVisible) {
      observer.unobserve(aboutRef.current);
    }
  }, []);

Like this:

useEffect(() => {
    const observer = new IntersectionObserver((entries) => {
      const entry = entries[0];
      setElementIsVisible(entry.isIntersecting);
    });
    observer.observe(aboutRef.current);
    observer.unobserve(aboutRef.current);
  }, []);

And like this:

useEffect(() => {
    const observer = new IntersectionObserver((entries) => {
      const entry = entries[0];
      setElementIsVisible(entry.isIntersecting);
    });
    observer.observe(aboutRef.current);
  }, []);

  useEffect(() => {
    const observer = new IntersectionObserver((entries) => {
      observer.unobserve(aboutRef);
    });
  }, [elementIsVisible]);

And both didn't work, what's the way to do this? Or use unobserve with react-intersection-observer



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