Feels like no one just posts normal things anymore. If someone travels, they just can't be a normal person, they have to share "five things to do when in Rome." And then the trends and skits. Everyone needs to stand out by doing the same thing everyone else is doing. Just watched someone in their 30s get fully dressed in ski gear to stand outside in the leaves to show how ready they are for ski season. Who looks at this and says, "wow that's funny and relatable, I put on all my ski gear and I sit in my yard in October waiting for it to snow." I understand that it's popular and it will do numbers, but I hate how all social media just is eventually everyone thinking they will be famous and an influencer. I didn't even touch on the OnlyFans idiots taking over every possible genre. Rant over.

I’ve had 40k bot followers added to my account, and I don’t know how to remove them. They’ve been there for 6 years, and I’ve never found a way to get rid of them can anyone help me?

I got an Instagram notification for “Chicken Road | PLAY NOW.” Tapping it opened a website with a crash game and betting amounts.

I never signed up for this. Has anyone else experienced this? Is it an Instagram ad or something suspicious?

Attaching screenshots.

My brother received a copyright strike on his Instagram account for a video he posted in February 2026. The video contained a clip taken from another creator.
As soon as he found out, he deleted the video and contacted the original creator through Instagram DMs. The creator agreed to help and contacted Instagram twice, requesting that the copyright complaint be withdrawn.

However, the strike is still showing on my brother’s account, and his reach has dropped massively. He has also lost a lot of followers, and his account’s growth seems completely dead.

It’s been months, and nothing has changed despite the original creator’s attempts to withdraw the complaint.
Has anyone experienced this before? Is there a specific form or escalation method that actually works to get the copyright strike removed after the original creator has requested withdrawal?

I’d really appreciate advice from anyone who has successfully resolved a similar issue.

Got this randomly and i went from getting thousands of views to 100 max. Either got flagged for spam or for following edgy/OF pages.

Provided my ID to appeal, appeal denied .

Been like this since 10/14.

It says ends 10/14 but that’s when it started

All my other stuff in account status is green check.

Do I just make a new acc?

Wonder if using the same phone number will make the shadowing carry over?

Lmk if anyone has similar experience I’ve seen similar posts. Here

Most of them are corny AI posts or something stupid

I don’t even realise when I do that so I keep having to go back to mu reposts from time to time

I just un reposted and I’ve had enough.

Any fixes besides being more careful?

I have a notification of him liking my story but I can't see his like and even his name in the list of who watched it. I alsp tried to delete cache and updating the app but I still can't see him EDIT 1: I talked to him like 20 minutes ago and he says that he actually watched the story. When I made this post hours ago, I also tried to see if he restriced me by posting a comment under a post of his account and I told a friend of mine if he could see my comment. He actually saw it so I wasn't restricted. Another friend of mine watched my story a liked it and this time I saw him in the list so, was it a bug?

I made a recent cheeze instagram professional account. And it still shows two steps remaining one is introduce yourself and one is understand how ads work. I have made a post. It didn't get a single view. Idk what's wrong with my account

My Instagram account disable, when ever I want to create new I'd it's again ban ... Please suggest me how to create new id

Hey, everyone !

I'm trying to figure out if Instagram changed something recently or if I'm just tripping. I tried to take a screenshot of a story today and it didn't work. I got worried it might notify the user.

Is there a new Instagram update that completely blocks people from screenshotting stories or sends an alert ? Or could it be related to specific settings, like being on someone's "Close Friends" list ?

I know IG already blocks or notifies for screenshots in disappearing DMs and Vanish Mode, but I always thought normal stories were fair game.

Has anyone else noticed this happening lately or knows what the deal is ? Thanks in advance !

Hey guys, I'm a music producer and I post my samples and my beats on my Instagram page on Reels. However, most of the time I only get a certain amount of views, 200, and never more, never less. I think most of the time it's just my followers watching my videos.

I wanted to ask you all if trial Reels would help anything. I've tried it a few times, but it didn't really work out well. The last trial Reel I had got only 30 views, so I'm kind of skeptical of that feature. I'm not sure if I'm shadowbanned or something because my Reels never get more views, which is kind of weird.

I wanted to contact Instagram, but I could only just talk to an AI because Instagram support is really bad. It's only AI; there is no way for you to contact a real person, which is why I decided to go on Reddit.

Can anybody please tell me from your experience if trial Reels have helped you to get more views? And also, if there is anything that's important to know, for example:

- If I need to stay consistent with my Reels to post one Reel a day

- Or if it's completely BS to post daily Reels

- If I can just post one Reel a week but high quality and get views

It's really weird for me. I usually thought that Instagram Reels get way more views than TikToks and YouTube Shorts. However, in my experience, YouTube Shorts, whatever I post, I get two, three, maybe 10k views. But on Instagram Reels, it's never over 200 views, as well as on TikTok also.

So yeah, if anybody can please give me any advice and help me out, I would really appreciate it.

hello,

im making this post in the hope for some constructive criticism. i run a curated import business and my main platform for advertising and promotion is instagram. however, my videos do quite poorly. most of my videos have 300 to under 1k views and the 2 videos with 15k+ views are that of influencers i’ve worked with.

id like to know what might be reason for this and what it is that i need to change because i’m sure there is something.

nobody irl knows of this account so i’m unable to get real feedback from people. hence why i’ve resorted to asking reddit.

instagram: mellowlab.in

please share your thoughts and suggestions, it would mean alot to me. thank you in advance. 🙏

I have noticed massive accounts with dressed up pets that are very believable but I notice AI themes. The comments are filled with similar accounts all commenting the same thing. But even filled with real people (I assume) commenting on how cute it is. The videos are very real looking but to me it stinks of AI. Maybe some of it is real but some of it is AI? I might see one comment out of 200 that is saying it is AI, but I haven’t heard anyone speak out about this.

If I hide a story from someone, does it hide all my stories from just that account, or their associated accounts as well?

Hi everyone, I’m based in Asia and could really use some advice 😔

My Instagram account has been banned three times now. I created a completely new account on a new iPhone, but immediately after signing up, it asked me to verify that I’m human. Then that new account was banned too. I submitted an appeal straight away.

What should I do now? Has anyone experienced something similar and managed to resolve it?

I’m honestly so frustrated and sad about going through this repeatedly. Any advice would mean a lot ❤️

We were both following eachother and their posts were visible also their following list and followers

I'm not sure if this is a sort of trend, or if I'm just suddenly waking up to it, but lately so many reels have a snippet of whatever the climax of the video is in the beginning. A comedy show clip might have the punchline, a video of two people interacting might start out with a clip of whatever the source of discord/intrigue/joy is. I feel like I'm watching shitty reality tv or something.

To be realistic, this is barely an issue. But I'm irrationally irritated about it for whatever reason and want to see if anyone relates.

Have you seen this? Do you find it irritating?

I need to vent because what Meta is doing right now is absolutely dystopian and completely broken. The sheer level of incompetence and corporate greed in their system right now is sickening.

My 4-year-old active account got hit with an automated suspension out of nowhere. I use this account daily. It's completely clean. When the ban hit, the screen gave me the standard corporate prompt: enter your phone number, upload a video selfie to verify identity, and it explicitly promised a 30-day grace period to download my information.

Because I’ve built up 4 years of history, memories, and close connections on there, I immediately tapped "Download Information" to protect my data from their trash AI. I jumped through every creepy, privacy-invasive hoop they demanded. I handed over my phone number and literally let their algorithms map my face just to secure my data packet.

Two days later, I open the app. The system throws a massive glitch, forces me out, and says "someone may have changed your password" or "you've been logged out" like I was hacked. But nobody hacked me. It was Meta's own backend dropping a digital execution on my profile.

When I finally log back in, the entire interface did a complete bait-and-switch.

The 30-day window? Evaporated. The option to download my data? Stripped away entirely. The screen now flat-out says my account is permanently disabled, all information will be permanently deleted, and I cannot request another review.

Think about how incredibly toxic and manipulative this is: They literally trick you into giving up your phone number and biometric face scans under the false promise of a 30-day window to save your history. The absolute second their broken, unhinged AI processes your video, it rejects it, slams the door shut, overrides the countdown, and locks you out of the data download you already initiated.

Instagram Support is officially done. There are no humans left over there. It is just an automated, faceless machine that flags normal accounts, demands your biometric data, lies to your face about a grace period, and then holds your years of personal data hostage before deleting it.

I don't even care about the profile aesthetic or the handles anymore. But losing 4 years of connections, networking, and history because a malfunctioning algorithm decides to erase you with zero human oversight is pathetic. Meta is an absolute garbage pile of a company.

Has anyone actually managed to force a data package download through the external data privacy/legal forms once this final brick wall screen hits, or is the data gone forever?