diff --git a/app/lib/advanced_text_formatter.rb b/app/lib/advanced_text_formatter.rb
index db46444668..07c09c3671 100644
--- a/app/lib/advanced_text_formatter.rb
+++ b/app/lib/advanced_text_formatter.rb
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ class AdvancedTextFormatter < TextFormatter
 
   # Differs from TextFormatter by not messing with newline after parsing
   def to_s
-    return ''.html_safe if text.blank?
+    return add_quote_fallback('').html_safe if text.blank? # rubocop:disable Rails/OutputSafety
 
     html = rewrite do |entity|
       if entity[:url]