diff --git a/osu.Desktop/DiscordRichPresence.cs b/osu.Desktop/DiscordRichPresence.cs
index 74ebd38f2c54..3e0a9099cb3d 100644
--- a/osu.Desktop/DiscordRichPresence.cs
+++ b/osu.Desktop/DiscordRichPresence.cs
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ private void updatePresence(bool hideIdentifiableInformation)
             // user activity
             if (activity.Value != null)
             {
-                presence.State = truncate(activity.Value.GetStatus(hideIdentifiableInformation));
-                presence.Details = truncate(activity.Value.GetDetails(hideIdentifiableInformation) ?? string.Empty);
+                presence.State = clampLength(activity.Value.GetStatus(hideIdentifiableInformation));
+                presence.Details = clampLength(activity.Value.GetDetails(hideIdentifiableInformation) ?? string.Empty);
 
                 if (getBeatmapID(activity.Value) is int beatmapId && beatmapId > 0)
                 {
@@ -271,8 +271,15 @@ private void onJoin(object sender, JoinMessage args) => Scheduler.AddOnce(() =>
 
         private static readonly int ellipsis_length = Encoding.UTF8.GetByteCount(new[] { '…' });
 
-        private static string truncate(string str)
+        private static string clampLength(string str)
         {
+            // For whatever reason, discord decides that strings shorter than 2 characters cannot possibly be valid input, because... reasons?
+            // And yes, that is two *characters*, or *codepoints*, not *bytes* as further down below (as determined by empirical testing).
+            // That seems very questionable, and isn't even documented anywhere. So to *make it* accept such valid input,
+            // just tack on enough of U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACEs at the end.
+            if (str.Length < 2)
+                return str.PadRight(2, '\u200B');
+
             if (Encoding.UTF8.GetByteCount(str) <= 128)
                 return str;