diff --git a/app/models/admin/status_batch_action.rb b/app/models/admin/status_batch_action.rb
index 52959c074f015c..f4b6fb3c7e9400 100644
--- a/app/models/admin/status_batch_action.rb
+++ b/app/models/admin/status_batch_action.rb
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ def handle_delete!
 
         # Immediately remove public copy of media instead of waiting for
         # the vacuum_orphaned_records job to take care of it later on
-        Admin::MediaAttachmentDeletionWorker.perform_inline(status.media_attachments)
+        Admin::MediaAttachmentDeletionWorker.perform_async(status.media_attachments.map(&:id))
       end
 
       if with_report?