diff --git a/src/worker.js b/src/worker.js
index d7a4537..5058d05 100644
--- a/src/worker.js
+++ b/src/worker.js
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ async function handleLol(body, env) {
   // weblog has some quirks with its yaml interpretation
   frontmatterString = frontmatterString
     .replace(/{\n/, '').replace(/}\n/, '').replace(/^\s\s/gm, '').replace(/,$/gm, '')
+    .replace(/\ntags: \[\]$/m, '')
     .replace(/^tags: \[ (.*) \]$/m, "tags: $1")
     .replace(/^title: "(.*)"$/m, "title: $1")