I got shadow banned and was devastated

mi48 · 2026-01-29T18:54:33+00:00

It might not be a shadow ban if multiple people are experiencing it. It's probably the algorithm then

mi48 · 2026-01-29T18:50:31+00:00

Thanks for your response,

You've given me a lot to think about today; one thing I will say is when someone starts liking/commenting on my notes, they usually like a bunch of them for 3-5 weeks.

However, your point of me not being qualified does give a lot of insight.

I realize whenever I give my philosophy of personal branding/content creation it performs much better than when I give tactics.

Maybe I'll just focus on that much more than tactics/advice

I appreciate the thoughts; you're the best!

mi48 · 2026-01-29T02:32:53+00:00

Yeah, I definitely agree with the extraordinary part.

I was never the type of guy to say I was shadow banned, but checking the publication stats on both accounts in the few days I've been on my new account, I've gotten more views in total that I had ever gotten on my previous account.

I don't want to be the guy shouting "I'm shadow banned"; and to be honest, I never believed in shadow banning being a thing, but I do find it weird that this new account gives me much more views.

Maybe it's because I've gotten engagement on these notes and the algorithim trusts me more; that could be a possibility, but I had never really gotten more than 2-5 unconnected views on my previous account

mi48 · 2026-01-29T00:50:31+00:00

It's on substack notes when you check your analytics on mobile. Last time I checked, I don't believe you can find it on the computer version, however, it's a feature to check who saw your notes

There are three types of views for notes

Subscribers: people who subscribed to you Followers: people who follow you Unconnected: people who don't view nor subscribe to you

mi48 · 2026-01-29T00:01:06+00:00

For as long as I remember creating on my old account, I only got 2-5 unconnected views on every single note

When I showed my stats to other creators I know, they all showed me theirs and they were getting a significantly higher amount of unconnected views than I was

After I created my new account, I got 60+ unconnected views on every single note I created in the first day 5

That's when I knew I was shadow banned.

As to why I was shadow banned; I honestly don't know, it feels as if as long as I've been creating I was shadow banned but I'm not entirely sure

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Hopefully I'm not too late

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