diff --git a/PluralKit.Bot/Proxy/ProxyService.cs b/PluralKit.Bot/Proxy/ProxyService.cs
index c6fb0dcf..823a9b21 100644
--- a/PluralKit.Bot/Proxy/ProxyService.cs
+++ b/PluralKit.Bot/Proxy/ProxyService.cs
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ public class ProxyService
             throw new PKError("You don't have permission to send messages in the channel that message is in.");
 
         // Mangle embeds (for reply embed color changing)
-        var mangledEmbeds = originalMsg.Embeds!.Select(embed => MangleReproxyEmbed(embed, member)).ToArray();
+        var mangledEmbeds = originalMsg.Embeds!.Select(embed => MangleReproxyEmbed(embed, member)).Where(embed => embed != null).ToArray();
 
         // Send the reproxied webhook
         var proxyMessage = await _webhookExecutor.ExecuteWebhook(new ProxyRequest
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ public class ProxyService
         }
     }
 
-    private Embed MangleReproxyEmbed(Embed embed, ProxyMember member)
+    private Embed? MangleReproxyEmbed(Embed embed, ProxyMember member)
     {
         // XXX: This is a naïve implementation of detecting reply embeds: looking for the same Unicode
         // characters as used in the reply embed generation, since we don't _really_ have a good way
@@ -290,6 +290,12 @@ public class ProxyService
             };
         }
 
+        // XXX: remove non-rich embeds as including them breaks link embeds completely
+        else if (embed.Type != "rich")
+        {
+            return null;
+        }
+
         return embed;
     }