|
Forums >
General Industry >
Another Instagram Purge
Instagram started another purge. I found out after posting a censored nude of a model in a neutral non-sexual pose and it was taken down for "Adult Sexual Solicitation.” Another photographer I follow got pictures removed and their model was clothed. Oddly enough Playboy keeps sharing censored nudes of models inseductive poses to draw traffic to Playboy's version of Only Fans and those posts are still up. That's because they might be part of Facebook's "XCheck." A program of flexible enforcement of the rules for VIP accounts. For everybody else Instagram is on the hunt. Below is one article on the subject. https://hyperallergic.com/723541/why-do … iting-sex/ May 22 22 03:29 pm Link Super Dimension Foto wrote: You are correct. Also photography in general is being downgraded on Instagram by the algorithm in an effort to compete With Tik Tok and make it more videocentric. May 22 22 06:40 pm Link They’ve made the term “solicitation” meaningless. They apply it to everything. https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comm … n_the_dot/ May 23 22 02:22 pm Link j_francis_imagery wrote: It’s applied to anything their AI or algorithm interprets may be solicitation or some other violation. All to often the AI is wrong and people get auto suspended with no human moderator review and sometimes it’s impossible to get any real human customer support, so people who in reality violated no policy are banned with little chance of getting their wrongful suspension overturned. I’ve read about this being an issue on other sites as well. May 23 22 05:25 pm Link I can't remember where I read it. As I've been reading a bunch of articles but there was mention that Instagram moved all nude, implied, suggestive, etc. related content to fall under its solicitation rules. Which I assume means If the AI gets confused by your swimsuit it will mark it as solicitation and any human reviewer is going to review it under what I imagine to be stricter rules. May 24 22 09:50 am Link Instagram is also hiding posts that are nude/implied nude from hashtags. I have posted a few implied nudes, and the hashtags do not show those posts. No warnings, just a shadow ban of certain posts. https://www.instagram.com/carlefactory/ May 25 22 11:41 am Link Not only images are being censored. I posted something from a well known poet and was told it was not by the correct author Then it said there were too many of his insperational messages and rhey did not need another one. I of course being one to not back down took a screen shot of the message they sent and posted that! However now I am locked out of my account for not giving them my birthday. They have it. Google seems to think there is a security threat to my account because at the same time they also were needing my birthday. Google me google. You will see everything you need to know. Jun 05 22 09:24 pm Link I've had two images taken down this year. Both of them were men wearing underwear and no bulges. Yet my censored nudes remain. There is zero rhyme or reason to any of it. And to make it worse, a friend of mine saw an uncensored male nude on instagram. It was dated several days prior to the date he saw it, so their "filters" never caught it. Just for fun, he decided to report it, to see what would happen. He got a response from instagram stating that they currently had too many reports, and not enough staff to review each reported image, therefore they would not be taking it down. Jun 06 22 09:36 am Link JohnTozziPhotography wrote: Jul 12 22 08:03 pm Link Jul 12 22 09:36 pm Link Sometimes it's not the algorithm, but a Karen going on a little vendetta, reporting images or accounts. Happens, unfortunately. If you get creative with your hashtags and don't have exclusively T&A centered material you should be okay-ish. Of course the other side of the medal is the bazillion spam bots with their cuntish click bait comments that aren't getting flagged. Jul 13 22 04:36 am Link I had a post taken down for "nudity" but the photo was a portrait of two people and nothing was visible below their shoulders. I put up a post in response, pointing out that perhaps the image was removed because it was of a black man and a white woman, my account was terminated. Although I'm a professional photographer, I've stopped posting on IG and am about to delete my Facebook account. Jul 30 22 11:33 am Link Almost every day, I see accounts that I follow get deleted. The great purge continues. Aug 10 22 10:28 am Link JohnTozziPhotography wrote: One of these days, pretty soon. They are gonna to purge themselves out of existence. Aug 10 22 04:45 pm Link 
Photographer Posts: 67 Neumayer - permanent station of Germany, Sector claimed by Norway, Antarctica Accounts aren't necessarily closed because of the pictures themselves. If you put onlyfans links or direct people to any website of a sexual nature they will shut you down. Also I'm pretty sure they scrape the DMs for keywords and they shut down people who are booking private sessions or doing escorting through IG. I've seen plenty of people complaining on Twitter about their IG accounts being shut down even though they don't post any nudity, but many of them are doing financial domme stuff, private sessions, etc., so I can only guess that's why. Aug 11 22 01:42 pm Link I wish they shut down spambots and accounts selling shout-outs, followers and promotions. With the obvious flood of sex workers now Instagram become what Craig's List adult section was few years back. Aug 12 22 10:21 am Link Iona Lynn 2 wrote: Try #elevator Aug 13 22 12:07 pm Link MoRina wrote: Really? the amount of models on IG that have had OF for a few years is incalculable. Aug 13 22 12:09 pm Link
Photographer Posts: 67 Neumayer - permanent station of Germany, Sector claimed by Norway, Antarctica Christopher Hartman wrote: Yes, that's a workaround. But I have had posts removed from using the word onlyfans in my captions. There are obviously exceptions made for celebrities as well. Aug 13 22 04:36 pm Link I lost one of my Instagram accounts this year. Everything I posted was masked or covered. Nothing but hints of sexy. No warning, no reason, just gone. Never again. Switched to Vero... It's too much work to build it up only to have them knee-jerk destroy your work. Oct 20 22 01:31 pm Link Joel S Cory wrote: I watch a lot of "How to Succeed on Social Media" YouTube videos. The consensus is that Instagram is still king because of its popularity and it's not video only. You can have a 40 something housewife fashion lover from Brisbane Australia follow you on Insta. Vero currently is pretty much only other content creators following other content creators. Oct 21 22 07:41 pm Link At this point, I think the purge is never ending. Although, lately, it seems like most are getting temporarily suspended. The other morning, I awoke to find that ten accounts I follow were shut down. By late afternoon, nine of them had been reinstated. There really is no rhyme or reason to what's going on there. Someone I know recently reported a photo of a man showing full frontal nudity. Instagram's response to the report was that the photo would remain up because they didn't have enough staff to review every flagged image, and wouldn't remove it without reviewing it. Seriously? Nov 04 22 11:18 am Link Nov 07 22 07:19 am Link Chuckarelei wrote: This is not what Flickr told me last week. Limited number of nudes for free accounts and they must be marked "restricted". Nov 07 22 07:42 am Link |
