diff --git a/neofetch b/neofetch
index 1244e4e0..a5cec3c1 100755
--- a/neofetch
+++ b/neofetch
@@ -2025,7 +2025,7 @@ getimage() {
 
     # If $img isn't a file or the terminal doesn't support xterm escape sequences,
     # fallback to ascii mode.
-    if [ ! -f "$img" ] || ([ "$no_esc" == 1 ] && [ "$image_backend" != "tycat" ]); then
+    if [ ! -f "$img" ] || [ "$term_width" == 0 ] || ([ "$no_esc" == 1 ] && [ "$image_backend" != "tycat" ]); then
         image="ascii"
         getascii