Upon review of the code, it was driving into the the placeholder "if" statement regardless if the response had a placeholder or not. In my case I had two .tail files one with a placeholder and one without. When the one response without a placeholder dove into the placeholder "if" statement it altered the body and made the response bad. One aspect of the code that was added was to check and see if it is a response that needs to be altered with the placeholder functionality. If it's not, then it ignores the placeholder "if".