diff --git a/src/components/notification/notification.vue b/src/components/notification/notification.vue
index 0930e0990..a531b35d3 100644
--- a/src/components/notification/notification.vue
+++ b/src/components/notification/notification.vue
@@ -247,6 +247,7 @@
           <StatusContent
             :compact="!statusExpanded"
             :status="notification.status"
+            :collapse="true"
           />
         </template>
       </div>
diff --git a/src/components/status_body/status_body.js b/src/components/status_body/status_body.js
index aa334499e..e89d1d173 100644
--- a/src/components/status_body/status_body.js
+++ b/src/components/status_body/status_body.js
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ const StatusContent = {
   name: 'StatusContent',
   props: [
     'compact',
+    'collapse', // replaces newlines with spaces
     'status',
     'focused',
     'noHeading',
@@ -95,6 +96,9 @@ const StatusContent = {
     attachmentTypes () {
       return this.status.attachments.map(file => fileType.fileType(file.mimetype))
     },
+    collapsedStatus () {
+      return this.status.raw_html.replace(/(\n|<br\s?\/?>)/g, ' ')
+    },
     ...mapGetters(['mergedConfig'])
   },
   components: {
diff --git a/src/components/status_body/status_body.vue b/src/components/status_body/status_body.vue
index 0fc024b04..1035d04c6 100644
--- a/src/components/status_body/status_body.vue
+++ b/src/components/status_body/status_body.vue
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
           v-if="!hideSubjectStatus && !(singleLine && status.summary_raw_html)"
           :class="{ '-single-line': singleLine }"
           class="text media-body"
-          :html="status.raw_html"
+          :html="collapse ? collapsedStatus : status.raw_html"
           :emoji="status.emojis"
           :handle-links="true"
           :faint="compact"
diff --git a/src/components/status_content/status_content.vue b/src/components/status_content/status_content.vue
index 64a1d6a53..6f5b1d613 100644
--- a/src/components/status_content/status_content.vue
+++ b/src/components/status_content/status_content.vue
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
       :toggle-showing-tall="toggleShowingTall"
       :toggle-expanding-subject="toggleExpandingSubject"
       :toggle-showing-long-subject="toggleShowingLongSubject"
+      :collapse="true"
       @parse-ready="$emit('parseReady', $event)"
     >
       <div v-if="status.poll && status.poll.options && !compact">