diff --git a/bashbot-lib.sh b/bashbot-lib.sh
index 3317dd1..6abe9f0 100755
--- a/bashbot-lib.sh
+++ b/bashbot-lib.sh
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ getreplyusrname(){
 }
 
 getreplytext() {
-  grep "reply_to_message" "${bot_tmpdir}${1}" >/dev/null && local replytext="$(tail -n 1 "${bot_tmpdir}${1}" | grep -om1\
+  tail -n1 "${bot_tmpdir}${1}" | grep "reply_to_message" >/dev/null || return 1
+  local replytext="$(tail -n 1 "${bot_tmpdir}${1}" | grep -om1\
    '{\?\("text"\|"caption"\):"\(\\"\|[^"]*\)*"\(,\|}\)' | grep -v "^{" | head -n1)"
   grep "^\"text\"" <<< "${replytext}" >/dev/null && utf-16-surrogate-pair-decode "${replytext:8:-2}"\
   || {