diff --git a/Tusker/Views/ContentTextView.swift b/Tusker/Views/ContentTextView.swift
index c3187ed6..f4136855 100644
--- a/Tusker/Views/ContentTextView.swift
+++ b/Tusker/Views/ContentTextView.swift
@@ -94,6 +94,12 @@ class ContentTextView: LinkTextView, BaseEmojiLabel {
 
     // MARK: - HTML Parsing
     func setTextFromHtml(_ html: String) {
+        // this shouldn't be necessary, but sometimes when the text view is updated before
+        // being added to the view hierarchy, it doesn't get tintColorDidChange calld
+        // when it's actually added, so links have the wrong color
+        // see #402
+        self.tintColor = Preferences.shared.accentColor.color
+        
         self.attributedText = htmlConverter.convert(html)
     }