diff --git a/src/embed/status.ts b/src/embed/status.ts
index 8922b20..7fae148 100644
--- a/src/embed/status.ts
+++ b/src/embed/status.ts
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ export const handleStatus = async (
     status,
     fetchWithThreads,
     request,
-    undefined,
+    language,
     flags?.api ?? false
   );
 
diff --git a/src/providers/twitter/conversation.ts b/src/providers/twitter/conversation.ts
index 3fa8956..87a9dfa 100644
--- a/src/providers/twitter/conversation.ts
+++ b/src/providers/twitter/conversation.ts
@@ -272,13 +272,16 @@ export const constructTwitterThread = async (
   language: string | undefined,
   legacyAPI = false
 ): Promise<SocialThread> => {
-  console.log('legacyAPI', legacyAPI);
+  console.log('language', language);
 
   let response: TweetDetailResult | TweetResultsByRestIdResult | null = null;
   let post: APITweet;
   /* We can use TweetDetail on elongator accounts to increase per-account rate limit.
-     We also use TweetDetail to process threads (WIP) */
-  if (typeof TwitterProxy !== 'undefined' && (experimentCheck(Experiment.TWEET_DETAIL_API) || processThread)) {
+     We also use TweetDetail to process threads (WIP)
+     
+     Also - dirty hack. Right now, TweetDetails requests aren't working with language and I haven't figured out why.
+     I'll figure out why eventually, but for now just don't use TweetDetail for this. */
+  if (typeof TwitterProxy !== 'undefined' && !language && (experimentCheck(Experiment.TWEET_DETAIL_API) || processThread)) {
     console.log('Using TweetDetail for request...');
     response = (await fetchTweetDetail(id, request.event)) as TweetDetailResult;
 
diff --git a/src/providers/twitter/processor.ts b/src/providers/twitter/processor.ts
index ff46146..c11b436 100644
--- a/src/providers/twitter/processor.ts
+++ b/src/providers/twitter/processor.ts
@@ -230,6 +230,8 @@ export const buildAPITweet = async (
     apiTweet.embed_card = 'player';
   }
 
+  console.log('language?', language)
+
   /* If a language is specified in API or by user, let's try translating it! */
   if (typeof language === 'string' && language.length === 2 && language !== tweet.legacy.lang) {
     console.log(`Attempting to translate Tweet to ${language}...`);