For Instagram, this involves making your posts invisible on the network and only showing them to your subscribers. The shadowban is based on a set of hashtags that are “banned” by Instagram. An account that uses these hashtags will see its publications limited to its subscribers only and the publications will be invisible to other people and therefore potential new subscribers who are looking for very specific hashtags.
Why are hashtags banned on Instagram?
Well, because by dint of being used wrongly and across saudi arabia whatsapp number database certain accounts, with the sole aim of increasing the subscribers of a page, Instagram considered that they were not relevant and used for spamming purposes.
The consequences in the case where you use the prohibited hashtags can slow down your development on this social network.
The reach of your publications will decrease and therefore your engagement.
In the context of your activity and for the development of your company this can be disabling.
Some hashtags are also banned because they are considered provocative, indecent or offensive. Thus hashtags related to nudity, insults, hateful words are clearly to be avoided.
But which are these famous banned hashtags?
To avoid any unpleasant surprises, I have listed on this infographic the hashtags banned to date by the Instagram application. (There are probably others around the world but it is difficult to know them all)