I think I’m shadow banned on IG how do I get out of it?!
For context I have an IG account that’s for my crocheting, of which I sell some of it on an Etsy page/socials. I post some things that I’m selling, some I’m just making and some are reels designed to just engage with others in my niche. I started it a few years ago and it was doing decently well, but then I stopped due to pregnancy and other factors. I’ve since picked it up again and have started posting daily, occasionally I’ll miss a day but mostly every day. Now because I’ve been a way for a decent while I knew I wasn’t going to shoot back up to the engagement I used to get, which wasn’t mega anyway. But I’ve been getting a few hundred views on posts sometimes going over 500 one got just over 6k but even then engagement hasn’t been good. I get 8-10 likes if I’m lucky. Again fair enough I’ve been away a while I need to build back up to it. But then my last 2 posts have TANKED. Today’s has 28 views and 3 likes. Yesterday’s has 123 views and that’s only gone up today since I shared it to my story with a prompt to view it. Before then it only had 20 odd views. I’m assuming I’ve been shadow banned but I can’t see why? I dont post spammy content, I don’t over follow people or do bot like behaviours. I’ll be honest and say I have used AI to help me write captions ( pls don’t come at me I’m a busy Mum) but I use that as a start point and then edit them to be my style and voice. Some posts I don’t at all and after wondering if that’s the issue I haven’t used it for a few posts now anyway. I try and engage with other creators and accounts, but I feel this is something I should work on more. I put lots of effort into my content and it feels like it’s for nothing now.
Is this something I can come back from? Or should I just give up?
Posted Nov 1, 2025, 7:53 PM UTC