Have you ever looked at the insights on a reel or post and realised it hasn’t gone to ANYONE outside your followers? The culprit COULD be banned hashtags!
WHAT ARE BANNED HASHTAGS?
Banned hashtags are hashtags that have had a high quantity of content posted within them that break community guidelines. Basically, the people using this hashtag have been very naughty!
Banned hashtags are actually a really important safe guarding feature. They ensure that inappropriate content (think porn, pro-anorexia content, racist & homophobic content etc etc) is NOT seen by users. It’s not a perfect system, but it does a LOT of the heavy lifting!
Sometimes communities wanting to post content that is against community guidelines pick an innocent sounding hashtag and use it to share their message. This is why some of these hashtags seem a little “random”
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU USE A BANNED HASHTAG?
Long story short, your content won’t get seen outside of your followers. Your followers will still see that content, but not outside of your community.
However, when you remove the hashtag, you remove the problem - although this can take 48 hours to come into effect!
HOW DO I CHECK FOR BANNED HASHTAGS?
When you search a banned hashtag, it will have a banned hashtag notice that looks like this:
If you see this notice, do not use this hashtag.
REMEMBER: Some hashtag bans are regional, and may not apply to you!
WHAT HASHTAGS ARE BANNED?!
This is NOT an exhaustive list, and hashtag bans are ALWAYS evolving! BUT at the time of publishing, these were all showing as banned to me!
A #abdl #addmysc #adulting #alone #always #anorexia #ana #americangirl #armparty #asiangirl #ass #assday #assworship #attractive
B #babe #bbc #bdsm #beautyblogger (#beautybloggers works.) #beautydirectory #besties #bikinibody #boho #books #brain
C #costumes #cpr #curvy #curvygirls #customers
D #date #dating #desk #direct #dm #daddylove #dogsofinstagram
E #easter #edm #eggplant #eggplantparm #elevator
F #fishnets #fitnessgirls #followforfollow
G #girlsonly #gloves #goddess #graffitiigers
H #happythanksgiving #hardworkpaysoff #hawks #hottie #hotweather #humpday #hustler
I #ice #ig #ilovemyinstagram #instababy #instamood #instasport #iphonegraphy #italiano
K #kansas (#kansascity is ok.) #kickoff #killingit #kissing
L #l4l #lean #like #likeback #likeforlike #lingerie #livinforalivin #loseweight #lulu
M #master #mileycyrus #milf #mirrorphoto #models #mustfollow
N #nasty #newyears #newyearsday #nudity
O #overnight
P #panties #parties #petite #pornfood #prettygirl #publicrelations #puppydogmondays #pushups
R #rate #ravens
S #saltwater #samelove #selfharm #selfharm #selfharming #anorexia #sexworker #sexy #single #singlelife #skateboarding #skinny #skinnygirl #skype #snap #snapchat #snowstorm #sopretty #stranger #streetphoto #stud #sunbathing #swole #shower #shit
T #tag4like #tagsforlikes #tanlines #todayimwearing #teens #teen #thong #thought #todayimwearing #treasurethesemoments
U #underage #undies #underwear
V #valentinesday
W #woman #womancrushwednesday #women #workflow #wtf