diff --git a/src/dpy_commons/send.py b/src/dpy_commons/send.py
index 1e99e11..d43e6cf 100644
--- a/src/dpy_commons/send.py
+++ b/src/dpy_commons/send.py
@@ -72,7 +72,10 @@ async def safe_send(
         first = False
 
     if not messages:
-        messages.append(await _send(destination, content, None, True, per_chunk, once_only))
+        # nothing chunked out (no content, or whitespace-only that chunk_text dropped) and no
+        # embeds: send content=None so a files/view-only call still goes out as one message,
+        # WITHOUT re-injecting the raw whitespace chunk_text discarded (which Discord 50006s)
+        messages.append(await _send(destination, None, None, True, per_chunk, once_only))
 
     return messages