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This latest change could have a major impact on the model/photographer community on Instagram. Posts that are sexually suggestive, even those that don't depict a sex act or nudity, could be hidden from view for most users.
Instagram says, “this type of content may not appear for the broader community in Explore or hashtag pages,” https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/10/instagram-borderline/ Apr 11 19 12:35 pm Link Yeah, I noticed this the other day. People can search for my profile specifically if they know what to look for but none of my images show up in hashtags, even if the image is completely benign: I have some hashtags specific to my dog and if I click on it in my own post it shows that there are images linked to the tag but they don't show, just a message that some images may have broken community guidelines. Apparently if you're judged to be in violation of their guidelines, though it may not be enough to actually have the offensive image removed or even be warned about it, all your hashtag images are shadow banned. Apr 11 19 12:54 pm Link Maybe someday someone will create a social media platform for adults without censorship. Apr 11 19 04:06 pm Link DR Boisvert Photography wrote: It started for me on Sunday. This official link explains it all.
Apr 11 19 06:36 pm Link Best to steer clear of Facebook and FB companies. They've shown their colors. They are not there for your benefit. Apr 11 19 06:41 pm Link Znude! wrote: There's a few places like that already and they're not all porn sites. Many appeal to select audiences only or you be vetted as being worthy enough to post. Twitter seem pretty chill, has mass number of users but I think it is too wild. The masses like to stick to the mainstream platforms. I was totally cool with making sure that all eye candy was safe for Instagram. This new policy is saying no more eye candy.
Apr 11 19 07:01 pm Link TEB-Art Photo wrote: That's something we all known for years but they've got all the eyes on their platforms. If you want to been seen you pretty much have to use their platforms. I'm curious to see how this will effect Instagram's overall traffic as posting and liking eye candy is one of the top reasons people use it. Apr 11 19 07:12 pm Link coughMeWEcough :-) Apr 11 19 09:09 pm Link Znude! wrote: I think you have nailed the reason. Instagram isn't an adult or private media, it is filled with kids and online predators, (and subsequent censorship.)
Apr 12 19 06:24 am Link Super Dimension Foto wrote: I said the same thing when I saw this
Apr 12 19 12:48 pm Link Znude! wrote: Fetlife. Apr 12 19 05:18 pm Link Znude! wrote: It was invented a couple decades back, i believe it was called the internet. However, without censorship, the transference of basic drives to product purchases that enable mercantile economies doesn't occur, so... Apr 15 19 07:01 am Link I'm not sure what instagram is hoping for here. It seems like it's going to be impossible to avoid being banned from using hashtags. My account has been shadow banned. I've never had a photo removed for any reason and any of my photos on my IG could probably have been published in Life Magazine in 1965 without raising an eyebrow.
IG apparently has a large and secret list of banned hashtags. If you used one, your image was banned. Most of these hashtags are pretty benign and have little or no sexual connotation. According to some online articles, hashtags like #bikinibody, #curvybody, #attractive and even #happythanksgiving are banned. I used #lingerie one time on one post about a month ago and that image was shadow banned. Now, apparently, my entire account has been permanently banned from using hashtags because I once used a banned hashtag. I would start a new account and be more careful, except with secret policies like this, it seems impossible to know how to be careful. If IG wants IG to be nothing more than cute puppy photos and travel snapshots, then maybe spell that out. Apr 15 19 07:33 am Link "Social" media.
You are not the customer. You are the product. Same as it ever was. I have a Fakebook account under a false name. I added 2,600+ "friends" in less than 2 weeks. I don't know these people and I don't care. I generated 200 "likes" on my event page in 3 hours with a single mass "share". Meaningless unless some of them show up to the next event. Then it's a win. I want it to promote an occasional event. I log in for 5 minutes once a week. I don't look at other people's stupid posts or respond to anything, ever. Update event page, go away, done. Total waste of time, a rabbit hole. Still, slightly better than stapling flyers to phone poles and less work. Game the advantages, ignore everything else. Apr 15 19 09:45 am Link I'd like to again point out how serious this new policy could be for models and photographers. During these last few days I've notice that some professional traveling models and publications have been hit by this. Not sure if they're even aware of it. If you ever been shadow banned for using the wrong hashtag or had a picture removed in the past chances are you've been demoted by Instagram.
To see if you've been demoted search the lesser known or hashtags that you've invented for yourself. For example publishers will use their name as a tag. When I search by their tags the publishers own posts didn't show up. Here's a site to play around with: https://www.isitnude.com/ It was created in few years ago. Feed it a picture and the algorithm will determine if there's nudity or not. It isn't perfect and it's not the algorithm used by Instagram but it will give you an idea how these things work. From my own testing it will still read censored nudes as nude and it will read covered nudes as nude. It also read clothed but suggestive pose as nude. Assuming that Instagram's works in a similar way I would take care of what you post and what hashtags you add. Now to show a double standard. When I Googled Instagram news stories this recent article came up. https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-bo … ram-photo/ She's a celeb with 338K followers. She using implied nudity as marketing tool. The same way accounts of all sizes use it and US magazine made article praising her. With the current situation on Instagram smaller accounts risk getting demoted if they try to recreate this. Apr 16 19 10:01 pm Link What are the tell tale signs to determine one has been shadow banned? Apr 19 19 08:26 am Link Znude! wrote: There are quite a few, but nobody cares.
Apr 19 19 09:49 am Link Eye of the World wrote: Review your hashtags right after making a new post. If you can't find that post it usually means one of the tags was banned. Wait a couple days make another new post. This time verify all your tags are good before posting. If this the same things happens chances are you've been shadow banned.
R.EYE.R wrote: You post where the people are. No point in posting a censorship free platform if nobody is there to see it and this isn't just normal censorship. People on IG who something against the rules usually get their accounts suspended.
Apr 19 19 07:27 pm Link Super Dimension Foto wrote: OK, and how do you verify the tags are good *before* posting? Apr 19 19 09:41 pm Link Eye of the World wrote: Do a hashtag search of the tags you're planning to use and see what results show up. If it doesn't show up at all it is completely banned. A tag may have results under TOP but not under RECENT. You want to use a tag that will show both TOP & RECENT results. Apr 20 19 09:57 am Link Eye of the World wrote: Here's a good article on being shadowbanned and how to fix it.
Apr 22 19 09:41 am Link Znude! wrote: It now exists. Cocoscope. Created by a model/social media trending woman who got demotized by youtube once they fully realized she was also a collared submissive, camgirl and was using their platform to increase membership to her own website. But not before they invited her as a vip to one of their content creator / maker centers due to the sudden explosion in subscribers and viewers of her channel and took advantage of her videos going viral to generate a lot of extra ad views. One video in particular did about ten million views in its first two or three days as I recall.
Apr 24 19 03:48 am Link Eye of the World wrote: If you're someone who has a lot of followers, and you put up a post that's the same sort of content as you often post, and there are very few likes & new followers gained afterwards, then that would be a big sign something is afoot in algorithm land.
Apr 24 19 04:15 am Link Facebook hid a post of mine saying it looked like spam, (I shared some pictures on a local photography group and then my own page.) When I went to edit my post FB warned me I couldn't because it was hidden as spam.
I was offered an option to request a review, which I did. That was 3 days ago. I'll upload a picture to my port and link it here. (unretouched.) Go figure. Jen Apr 24 19 05:34 am Link go to twitter,that is the place where you can post adult contents freely .
my twitte rhttps://twitter.com/garyyong20 May 05 19 06:19 am Link Sheer prudery strikes again: http://www.thenudeblogger.com/blurred-g … -accounts/ May 05 19 02:51 pm Link Michael DBA Expressions wrote: A few things I've notice about the massive and verified accounts is they'll often won't even use hashtags. With 100K followers (even if half of fake) they don't need to. Some accounts accounts belonging to very popular nude models are almost devoid of pictures even suggesting a career as nude model. Then you have the celebrity covered nudes selfies. They seem to get away posting pictures like this with no problem. We are in a different class than the 100K and verified accounts. When we try to dispute algorithm our complaints are ignored. There's no hope at all. You can't reach anybody. The verified accounts have people assigned to help them. A non-pornographic/non-nude body positive account in that link gets shutdown because they only person reviewing their account is a computer.
May 12 19 09:23 am Link Why exactly are we still contributing content, information, and data freely to supply and feed social media's third-party controlled platforms and chasing algorithms for footholds and visibility in their walled gardens, again? May 12 19 10:51 am Link ROUA IMAGES wrote: Im not
May 12 19 01:26 pm Link It'd be interesting to see how that unfolds. Initially, Tumblr was never horrible save for getting buried by more popular venues, but its gradually continual focus on porn issues (for or against) seem to keep its future questionable as a viable option for photographers/models/artists to showcase who do not shoot in those genres. I'm not sure Pornhub's buying it out would make it any more a good choice than, say, Deviantart or another alternative to FG and InstaBook. The good news is they may not be manipulating rankings and visibility off their own "pay for higher placement" algorithms, letting whatever content place where it should, but the concern is that search engines may omit Tumblr pages from search results based on its reputation as heavily porn friendly under Pornhub's ownership. What's left? Twitter? Really? My gosh we've descended...
It's really - damn social media and the current paradigms... What else is out there that people are turning to? May 12 19 05:57 pm Link Tumblr bombed me today for boobs covered with wet fabric. It was pretty hot, but really.
I appealed it of course, but doubt they'll change their minds. The same image went up on IG at the same time, and I heard crickets. Maybe they're just busy now, but I read somewhere that the fabric covering nullifies the tittiness of titties on the Gram. May 13 19 12:40 am Link Just how strict is Instagram's algorithm in detecting nudes?
A picture I uploaded last week of a model wearing a bra few shades away from her skin tone was demoted from research results. I can see how that may have caused a false positive. This week I shared pictures of a Caucasian model wearing black panties. They didn't match her skin tone, you can't see anything, she's not doing the splits and the coverage is equal to most swimsuits. Instagram hid it from search results. Uploaded a front view - hidden, back view - hidden & side view - not hidden. My meager following can still see these pics. Nobody is going to find them in discovery or a hashtag search. Another much larger Instagram account that follows me posted one of these pictures of mine (with credit). They got 650+ likes for my picture compared to the 40+ likes I got on my own account. Instagram's demoting posts doesn't hurt big accounts but it really limits the growth of smaller ones. I've also reviewed some of the large photographer and model accounts I followed. The one's who aren't at the top but have a really good following. A few of these accounts have been completely demoted. I doubt they are even aware of it. With them having 50K followers there's still plenty of eyes seeing their posts. May 17 19 09:07 am Link ROUA IMAGES wrote: I don't know that is a good question, I guess because Instagram is the only game in town. I will say this, I have been using it less and less and viewing it less and less. I had forgotten there were other things in life besides getting likes. Now I remember!! Life is wonderful beyond the screen!! May 17 19 11:49 am Link Not sure what changed... but I have a lot of porn feed from accounts that were inactivated and my feed is almost back to normal! May 17 19 09:25 pm Link veypurr wrote: That's great! It's amazing how much more productive one can be once outside of it. Have you also noticed how much Pimpstagram "isn't" out there on the web once you break free? Of course they want people on it daily, jockeying for likes, trying to get on that explorer page, hoping for more followers, playing all the games and tricks just to be "seen"...
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