diff --git a/events/messageCreate.js b/events/messageCreate.js
index 5ff5630..ae4e417 100644
--- a/events/messageCreate.js
+++ b/events/messageCreate.js
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ const database = require("../utils/database.js");
 const logger = require("../utils/logger.js");
 const collections = require("../utils/collections.js");
 const parseCommand = require("../utils/parseCommand.js");
+const { clean } = require("../utils/misc.js");
 
 // run when someone sends a message
 module.exports = async (client, cluster, worker, ipc, message) => {
@@ -141,7 +142,7 @@ module.exports = async (client, cluster, worker, ipc, message) => {
         await client.createMessage(message.channel.id, Object.assign({
           content: "Uh oh! I ran into an error while running this command. Please report the content of the attached file at the following link or on the esmBot Support server: <https://github.com/esmBot/esmBot/issues>"
         }, reference), [{
-          file: `Message: ${error}\n\nStack Trace: ${error.stack}`,
+          file: `Message: ${await clean(error)}\n\nStack Trace: ${await clean(error.stack)}`,
           name: "error.txt"
         }]);
       } catch { /* silently ignore */ }
diff --git a/utils/misc.js b/utils/misc.js
index 0ac75df..09521ba 100644
--- a/utils/misc.js
+++ b/utils/misc.js
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 const util = require("util");
+const fs = require("fs");
 
 // random(array) to select a random entry in array
 exports.random = (array) => {
@@ -22,6 +23,11 @@ exports.clean = async (text) => {
     .replaceAll("@", `@${String.fromCharCode(8203)}`);
 
   const { parsed } = require("dotenv").config();
+  const imageServers = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync("./servers.json", { encoding: "utf8" })).image;
+
+  for (const server of imageServers) {
+    text = text.replaceAll(server, "<redacted>");
+  }
 
   for (const env of Object.keys(parsed)) {
     text = text.replaceAll(parsed[env], optionalReplace(parsed[env]));
diff --git a/utils/services/image.js b/utils/services/image.js
index 681bafc..d223816 100644
--- a/utils/services/image.js
+++ b/utils/services/image.js
@@ -213,13 +213,9 @@ class ImageWorker extends BaseServiceWorker {
         const num = Math.floor(Math.random() * 100000).toString().slice(0, 5);
         const timeout = setTimeout(() => {
           if (this.jobs[num]) delete this.jobs[num];
-          reject("the image request timed out after 25 seconds. Try uploading your image elsewhere.");
+          reject("The image request timed out after 25 seconds. Try uploading your image elsewhere.");
         }, 25000);
-        this.start(object, num).catch(err => { // incredibly hacky code incoming
-          clearTimeout(timeout);
-          if (err instanceof Error) return reject(err);
-          return err;
-        }).then((data) => {
+        this.start(object, num).then((data) => {
           clearTimeout(timeout);
           if (!data.event) reject("Not connected to image server");
           data.event.once("image", (image, type) => {
@@ -256,7 +252,8 @@ class ImageWorker extends BaseServiceWorker {
   async handleCommand(data) {
     try {
       if (data.type === "run") {
-        return await this.run(data.obj);
+        const result = await this.run(data.obj);
+        return result;
       } else if (data.type === "reload") {
         await this.disconnect();
         await this.repopulate();
@@ -274,7 +271,7 @@ class ImageWorker extends BaseServiceWorker {
         return await this.getRunning();
       }
     } catch (err) {
-      return { err: err.message };
+      return { err: typeof err === "string" ? err : err.message };
     }
   }