diff --git a/source/app/metrics/utils.mjs b/source/app/metrics/utils.mjs
index 0c694736..83e8de62 100644
--- a/source/app/metrics/utils.mjs
+++ b/source/app/metrics/utils.mjs
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ export const svg = {
     console.debug("metrics/svg/gemojis > rendering gemojis")
     const emojis = new Map()
     try {
-      for (const [emoji, url] of Object.entries((await rest.emojis.get()).data).map(([key, value]) => [`:${key}:`, value])) {
+      for (const [emoji, url] of Object.entries((await rest.emojis.get().catch(() => ({data:{}}))).data).map(([key, value]) => [`:${key}:`, value])) {
         if ((!emojis.has(emoji)) && (new RegExp(emoji, "g").test(rendered)))
           emojis.set(emoji, `<img class="gemoji" src="${await imgb64(url)}" height="16" width="16" alt="" />`)
       }
diff --git a/source/plugins/core/metadata.yml b/source/plugins/core/metadata.yml
index 7b1e2517..b16930cd 100644
--- a/source/plugins/core/metadata.yml
+++ b/source/plugins/core/metadata.yml
@@ -238,6 +238,8 @@ inputs:
       GitHub supports additional emojis which are not registered in Unicode standard (:octocat:, :shipit:, :trollface:, ...)
       See full list at https://api.github.com/emojis.
 
+      This option has no effect when `token: NOT_NEEDED` is set.
+
       May increase filesize
     type: boolean
     default: yes