I was Disabled on Instagram

Hi!

I want to release a post and try to tell you or explain what happened when i was disabled on Instagram; because I don't know myself, to be honest.

I have been off for a reason, and it all started in early May.
I can say that I had good momentum in my creations and creativity and did super cool content each week. The last was the Audi RS7, Porsche, Max Verstappen edition, and a Lamborghini set.
The first three projects went super well, both visuals and the reach turned out well too–my Instagram account was in growing mode.

After posting my all-time best, The Max Verstappen set, I bought my most expensive car, a Lamborghini Huracan, on a 1:18 scale. I wanted to get over the top of the latest project and be even more awesome.
I had that momentum that I got a post each week, a post, and a Instagram Reel which I found was perfect for the feed and for the followers.

But, when I was releasing the regular post of the new, awesome set of the Lamborghini Huracan, Instagram disabled me directly. Out of nowhere.
From my feed page to; "Your account was disabled by violating our terms." I thought; it can't be real…
I reached out to the Facebook support and they are in script mode in the chat. But the they sent me a link to a survey to fill in my info, and 24 hours later, I got the response, "your account was disabled by mistake."
I was hoping for a explanation, but the support couldnt give me that; i was still violating thier terms.

Now I thought everything was about the content. Maybe if there were any weird formations in the pictures that could be flagged.
I deleted the post of the new Lamborghini and tried to upload it again, but the same story happend again. I was disabled and attempted to reach support; they sent the link again, and I was enabled… 72h… later.

I did the same again, uploaded the same pictures, but on a stand-by account, it worked fine. No questions and no disabled account. So it could not be the content.

I was now recording my 3rd upload with a screen record on my phone. And got disabled again. Enabled five days later.
4th the same, and this time I had Facebook Support on the phone while uploading. Enabled seven days later.
For at 5th time, I tried to boost my post with some money to get it back from the dead; it was quiet now. But when I clicked boost, I was disabled again…
Now it starts to be weird. I will now be disabled for 14 days and was still in contact with the support. They just said we are working on it, and the internal IG team is looking at it.

I got the account back without any verifaction email, and I tried to upload a reel of an old unpublished project, and it worked. So I thought, YES, it works!

I was now waiting with the Lambo content to see if there was safe, and the account worked without any trouble.
Fourteen days later, I tried to upload it again. Disabled again…
From this, it took me four weeks to get it back. And I haven't still uploaded any regular posts—just reels.

This cost me a lot of energy. And even my momentum.
Did i get any explanation; no..

So for upcoming projects, I really hope I can keep doing what i do without any trouble and being able to upload regular posts again.

So about new posts, I got some ideas and even new cars is on the shelves! :)

All the best
-Martin





Martin Palm

Martin Palm helps brand and people with better pictures.
Martin also provides a large number of high quality assets for photographers, retouchers and other artists.

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