[Journey + Solution] EXTREME INSTAGRAM SHADOW BAN

awesome journey

I will following this

arnie123 said:

Hi, @unknownsmmers in my case when I check my post is in recent hashtags but never appears in the top tab even in small competence hashtags. So I always reach like 10-20 people from hashtags as much. After reading you I think I was shadowbanned when I grown my account to 10K using automated follow/unfollow and now that I'm already "legal" the shadowban is still lasting cause I keep posting, liking and mentioning every day. Could be that? I only post once a day, I also use to post 1 story where I mention the person and then I also like some pictures (15-20) and like some of the comments in my posts (20-25). In total I log in 4-5 times a day for a total of 40-60 minutes. I don't think is too much. When you say relax for 15 days you mean less than what I do? I'm out of automation for longer than a month and is no way to rank any hashtag. Even I wasn't getting any new follower organically till a week ago when I ordered a shoutout that brought me 500 followers in 24 hours and after that I noticed a big change, I started getting followers organically every day, around 100 in a week compared to the 0 before. Now I just need to rank in hashtags. Can you be more specific on how should I act during the next 15 days? How many posts, how many stories, likes, comments, mentions and log ins. I just want to copy exactly the actions u do during those 2 weeks.
Thank you very much

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Normally, even after a shadowban is lifted, your account will remain in a "soft ban" period where your engagement is still crap. Your posts will show up in the Recent hashtag tab, but not the Top tab. We just came out of a 4-week soft ban period following our 2-week shadowban. I've seen some people on Reddit mention that the soft ban period could last 10 weeks.

fxmanaged said:

Normally, even after a shadowban is lifted, your account will remain in a "soft ban" period where your engagement is still crap. Your posts will show up in the Recent hashtag tab, but not the Top tab. We just came out of a 4-week soft ban period following our 2-week shadowban. I've seen some people on Reddit mention that the soft ban period could last 10 weeks.

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So how you did it to get out?

arnie123 said:

Hi, @unknownsmmers in my case when I check my post is in recent hashtags but never appears in the top tab even in small competence hashtags. So I always reach like 10-20 people from hashtags as much. After reading you I think I was shadowbanned when I grown my account to 10K using automated follow/unfollow and now that I'm already "legal" the shadowban is still lasting cause I keep posting, liking and mentioning every day. Could be that? I only post once a day, I also use to post 1 story where I mention the person and then I also like some pictures (15-20) and like some of the comments in my posts (20-25). In total I log in 4-5 times a day for a total of 40-60 minutes. I don't think is too much. When you say relax for 15 days you mean less than what I do? I'm out of automation for longer than a month and is no way to rank any hashtag. Even I wasn't getting any new follower organically till a week ago when I ordered a shoutout that brought me 500 followers in 24 hours and after that I noticed a big change, I started getting followers organically every day, around 100 in a week compared to the 0 before. Now I just need to rank in hashtags. Can you be more specific on how should I act during the next 15 days? How many posts, how many stories, likes, comments, mentions and log ins. I just want to copy exactly the actions u do during those 2 weeks.
Thank you very much

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I do recall before a hard shadow ban hit I was only reaching about 15-30 people in hashtags which was very suspicious to me since I'm targeting hashtags where on a bad day I'll reach 500 people and on a good day I'd reach 2-5k from my hashtags.

What I did from there is continue posting every couple days, and every day/every other day I would take a decent amount of time to actually sit and watch some feeds (checking my favorite profiles, going through some explore feeds, etc).

But when I'm posting I wouldn't use hashtags, I would just take the L of the low engagement and act like an average joe.

And I stopped all manual engagements. I just used the app like a normal human who's greedy with the "like" trigger.

After using my account genuinely like a normal person, it was fixed within about 15 days of counting / remembering the date I started

dianeriley22 said:

awesome journey

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Thank you!
No shadow ban since, but once it happens I'll continue updates!

orangeboy said:

I will following this

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Enjoy! Maybe follow my profile too

fxmanaged said:

Normally, even after a shadowban is lifted, your account will remain in a "soft ban" period where your engagement is still crap. Your posts will show up in the Recent hashtag tab, but not the Top tab. We just came out of a 4-week soft ban period following our 2-week shadowban. I've seen some people on Reddit mention that the soft ban period could last 10 weeks.

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Agreed to an extent.
The minute I'm off a hard shadow ban my posts FLY into the top posts because I get thousands of likes/comments (hundreds on a bad day)

And it actually could be a trick i would use if I knew how to directly get on/off Shadow ban without getting deleted lmao


(Honestly 25+ posts hit all my competitors hashtags I target. Boom. Flooded the top hashtag posts)

(Side note: in regards to your engagement statement - completely true. My reach / engagement on new posts dropped 50% even though I was still reaching alot in hashtags, after I recovered - I got 200% more engagement than I started off with, now it's fluctuating on my schedule & weekly posting/feed)

arnie123 said:

So how you did it to get out?

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Explained that above (from my end)

Update:
I've recently realized I've been shadow ban since November 5th, 2019

Whats different, and why am I shadow banned for longer than 14 days?

Currently, I Assume it's because I've posted with Hashtags ever since I was shadow ban.


Whats new, since I've been shadow banned?

Instagram is finessing your opinion.
I never, reach under 1000 people with hashtags.
But now? I reach definitely under 250-500 people.
On average? I reach about 10-25 people in hashtags.
How? I can see my own posts, my other accounts on the same device can see the posts, and - my followers can see my posts. But nobody else.

This is a plan to hide news agencies from realizing they've been shadow banned, because they don't use the proper / high amount of hashtags to realize.

This is an effort to silence the term "shadow ban"

And, our solution?
I'll be testing. Then sharing.
I'm here to expose, not to profit.

Thank you for all this valuable information. You re a shadow ban warrior and we need you!

unknownsmmers said:

Update:
I've recently realized I've been shadow ban since November 5th, 2019

Whats different, and why am I shadow banned for longer than 14 days?

Currently, I Assume it's because I've posted with Hashtags ever since I was shadow ban.


Whats new, since I've been shadow banned?

Instagram is finessing your opinion.
I never, reach under 1000 people with hashtags.
But now? I reach definitely under 250-500 people.
On average? I reach about 10-25 people in hashtags.
How? I can see my own posts, my other accounts on the same device can see the posts, and - my followers can see my posts. But nobody else.

This is a plan to hide news agencies from realizing they've been shadow banned, because they don't use the proper / high amount of hashtags to realize.

This is an effort to silence the term "shadow ban"

And, our solution?
I'll be testing. Then sharing.
I'm here to expose, not to profit.

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Any changes since your last post?

I m in a mysterious shadow ban, and I need help! All my top posts have been demoted to recent. Posts with 9 likes are above mine with 600, 900, 2000 likes. This happens on new posts too, with very small categories (only 15 other entries). This happened last year in December once, and went away after 3 days but now its back and its been about 5 days (since I noticed). When I post, I have about 10% engagement, 160 comments, and about 900 likes, I have 10k followers, and this is a dog account, so its not reposts I normally only post 1 time per 5 days, but stories every day. I dont know what is causing this but I have very unique content and I usually get top post! I do actively engage on others, I comment and like and respond to all my comments.
Here are things maybe:
1) I did not post for about 4 months and on my first post back this happened....that is what is so strange!! But that was a sufficient cooling off from this last top post ban. my hashtag reach Is about 1800 out of reach of 3000, so im still hitting hashtags, just not TOP
2) I did get in a disagreement online spat with someone last year, and they deleted my comments (as many other peoples that were upset), could this be it? and can this permanently destroy my trust score.
3) last time this happened I joined a legit small telegram group and they put an API token on my account (needed my Password), I removed that last year and changed my password recently!! That may have caused this top post ban last year, because it worked!
3a) I m probably guilty of unfollowing about 600 people over a month, but I try to time it out 18-30 a day. All manual no app!
4) since returning to instagram after 4 months, I noticed spammy accounts followed me in a flurry for about 2 weeks, I dont know why! I have recently changed my password
5) Should I try to change my IP address? or get a proxy
6) Should I change my device ID, I m wondering if my phone is permanently marked or my profile is doomed?
7) any advice, insights please!

I m going to try to post more consistent, and use 2 hashtags and report on progress. If any other tips please let me know. Thanks so much!