I asked Grok about my (3rd) X account and it said it's a zombie account, meaning no one sees it at all. It's live but not just shadow banned, dunked in a dark sewer sludge banned. I'm sure it's the same story on FB since I'm on my 3rd or 4th account there too. Edited to add: Grok said the only way around it is to get a VPN and a new email address that has never been used before so there's no content that AI can connect to old accounts. In other words, go stealth. I have never done it that way, always gave them my real name etc so it's easy for them to link me to past content it said.
I use a VPN and it won't let me link to You-tube and others. Somehow You-tube and others know when you are not using your regular IP address. This also happens for other sites where I cannot get to a webpage. I still use the VPN as much as possible.
They are likely detecting the ip address change that happens when you use a vpn.
If you change your ISP to DSL no one can find your IP address because of how the D-SLAM works. Basically you have a randomly assigned generic ip address that changes each use and can not be tracked past the D-SLAM, which is the device on the ISP's side that DSL uses to connect your devices to the internet.
It already is. Grok said it rewards those who use the Notes feature and/or lean left. I noticed my traffic dropped like a rock when Notes got going because I don't use it.
My view stats on X went from ok for the size of my account to miniscule.
I kept getting banned for hate speech for the crime of being a TERF
( Non feminist variety ) ..
Interestingly I would always get around 17 views per post BEFORE it hit the feed. So I had a very dedicated tiny audience 😆😆😆 memorably i got suspended for hate speech for saying that Die Hard was an Xmas movie.
I switched to starting threads in the comments on big accounts feeds and then finally got pinged for inauthentic behavior cause I was having debates with Grok on 20 different threads in this manner at the speed of light as my farewell shot and left.
It says a lot about mainstream installed ‘controlled opposition’ which is never suppressed. That’s the giveaway. No-one ‘controversial’ gets a platform without prior approval.
The reply that I made to Cryxcyon, which Demi restacked, only shows up in my activity page and on starfirecodes profile page under activities. The restack is hidden in at least 5 ways that I have checked so far, including the original not showing up under Cryxcyon’s comment, until you click on it to show the comment(s) attached. “They" really do not like advice that educates other on how their censorship works.
I wonder if Substack shadow bans too. I assume they do. But I also assume my content is shadow banned mostly because I don’t get enough engagement to begin with. But I also publish fiction that deals with controversial issues, so who knows?
When I posted about the FBI Havana syndrome files on Facebook on November 25 at 10 am the whole damn site went down and I was not able to get back in my account and the password was changed and friends I used to be able to get in touch with where not available. I'm Dustin Normand 'mrnomadnormand' and I want to figure out what the fuck I did that was so wrong and it cost me damn near everything. Please tell me about myself and what I did so I can make amends and move on with my life.
Dustin Normand 'mrnomadnormand' from Bogalusa Louisiana
This a very interesting and nuanced look at a phenomenon that I sometimes feel can be a bit nebulous (which I suppose is the point ha). Thank you very much for sharing this!
Thank you!! Happy to help, although I wish it were not happening at all. I was heavily impacted by it in 2020/2021 and since. On some accounts, I might still be, but I’m unsure about that. I haven’t been as active on most socials, although that is likely about to change. I’m still kind of weighing that out.
Quite welcome! I am sorry to hear you have been hit hard by this trash, both for the impact on you and all the people who could really benefit from your work. I cannot be too surprised though I suppose, as if there ever was a person whose wisdom, strength, and perspicacity would ruffle the right feathers haha and make the Powers-that-Be nervously flip that shadowban switch, it would be the inimitable Starfire Codes ;)
And yeah socials are some wild and crazy stuff haha. I have no idea what the optimal path is there, but I know you'll continue to shine no matter which course you take.
Thank you so much!! I think it’s just going to be a matter of trial and error to see what works and which places feel like a good fit. It’s so hard to tell now that everything has changed so much. I guess we’ll see! If I notice anything that emerges from trying to do it again, I’ll be sure to write about it in the future. The worst of it was the Twitter ban, reinstatement, and subsequent bizarre shadowban, which I wrote about before.
I remember you talking about the Twitter debacle. Sounds like a real rollercoaster. And not the good kind. The bad kind, like in Final Destination 3. That must be very frustrating.
As debacles go, it was way more roller than coaster. As in, steamroller. Zero coasting. And yes, super frustrating when my posts started getting 120K views and then all of a sudden my account gets shut off with no way to appeal. Merp. All the merp. Buckets and buckets of merp.
Omg, so true it has been an everyday occurrence to me for years whatever maybe I’ll start my own web site then if these so called tools can’t play fair, be even handed or at a bare minimum be decent human beings. Better than having all my materials, art, writings etc stolen from me which has happened to me also. Whatever I find it beyond humerus though that some find me or what I try to put out on some of these g d forsaken platform’s threatening enough to do so in the first place. More their own problem than mine though so I’ll continue to do what I do shadow banned or other. I know why I do what I do, agree it is low life behavior to do so.
Quickly onboarding and processing, internally. As Hitchcock and famous Nelly-ride wit me, show up. Our spelled words are powerful. So much, that if I was a shadow banner I’d ban myself in lil’ rascal style.
And this is why I prefer email for the people/subjects that I actually want to hear from/about. Then I actually get the messages I want to see. I keep FB to check on family. I rarely visit much else. I try to keep most SM sites as politically free as possible.
I KNOW I have been/still am being gaslighted and shadow banned. With the Ai infection moving thru humanity at lightning speed, it is almost impossible to stay in front of the Matrix these days.
I asked Grok about my (3rd) X account and it said it's a zombie account, meaning no one sees it at all. It's live but not just shadow banned, dunked in a dark sewer sludge banned. I'm sure it's the same story on FB since I'm on my 3rd or 4th account there too. Edited to add: Grok said the only way around it is to get a VPN and a new email address that has never been used before so there's no content that AI can connect to old accounts. In other words, go stealth. I have never done it that way, always gave them my real name etc so it's easy for them to link me to past content it said.
I use a VPN and it won't let me link to You-tube and others. Somehow You-tube and others know when you are not using your regular IP address. This also happens for other sites where I cannot get to a webpage. I still use the VPN as much as possible.
They are likely detecting the ip address change that happens when you use a vpn.
If you change your ISP to DSL no one can find your IP address because of how the D-SLAM works. Basically you have a randomly assigned generic ip address that changes each use and can not be tracked past the D-SLAM, which is the device on the ISP's side that DSL uses to connect your devices to the internet.
I probably should stop telling the founders of Substack they are turning this into THE hub of liberal TDS slop.
Perhaps... but you ain't wrong, William!
💯🤣🤣🤣
My solution...screw social media, I don't need it. Before long, substack will be the same way.
It already is. Grok said it rewards those who use the Notes feature and/or lean left. I noticed my traffic dropped like a rock when Notes got going because I don't use it.
Yup
My view stats on X went from ok for the size of my account to miniscule.
I kept getting banned for hate speech for the crime of being a TERF
( Non feminist variety ) ..
Interestingly I would always get around 17 views per post BEFORE it hit the feed. So I had a very dedicated tiny audience 😆😆😆 memorably i got suspended for hate speech for saying that Die Hard was an Xmas movie.
I switched to starting threads in the comments on big accounts feeds and then finally got pinged for inauthentic behavior cause I was having debates with Grok on 20 different threads in this manner at the speed of light as my farewell shot and left.
It says a lot about mainstream installed ‘controlled opposition’ which is never suppressed. That’s the giveaway. No-one ‘controversial’ gets a platform without prior approval.
Ok THIS is funny!
The reply that I made to Cryxcyon, which Demi restacked, only shows up in my activity page and on starfirecodes profile page under activities. The restack is hidden in at least 5 ways that I have checked so far, including the original not showing up under Cryxcyon’s comment, until you click on it to show the comment(s) attached. “They" really do not like advice that educates other on how their censorship works.
After making this post the restacked comment shows up again in your comment section. Too late, the egg is already on their faces.
I wonder if Substack shadow bans too. I assume they do. But I also assume my content is shadow banned mostly because I don’t get enough engagement to begin with. But I also publish fiction that deals with controversial issues, so who knows?
Enlightening article. I'm too small to claim shadowbanning. But maybe one day 🤞🤣
When I posted about the FBI Havana syndrome files on Facebook on November 25 at 10 am the whole damn site went down and I was not able to get back in my account and the password was changed and friends I used to be able to get in touch with where not available. I'm Dustin Normand 'mrnomadnormand' and I want to figure out what the fuck I did that was so wrong and it cost me damn near everything. Please tell me about myself and what I did so I can make amends and move on with my life.
Dustin Normand 'mrnomadnormand' from Bogalusa Louisiana
This a very interesting and nuanced look at a phenomenon that I sometimes feel can be a bit nebulous (which I suppose is the point ha). Thank you very much for sharing this!
Thank you!! Happy to help, although I wish it were not happening at all. I was heavily impacted by it in 2020/2021 and since. On some accounts, I might still be, but I’m unsure about that. I haven’t been as active on most socials, although that is likely about to change. I’m still kind of weighing that out.
Quite welcome! I am sorry to hear you have been hit hard by this trash, both for the impact on you and all the people who could really benefit from your work. I cannot be too surprised though I suppose, as if there ever was a person whose wisdom, strength, and perspicacity would ruffle the right feathers haha and make the Powers-that-Be nervously flip that shadowban switch, it would be the inimitable Starfire Codes ;)
And yeah socials are some wild and crazy stuff haha. I have no idea what the optimal path is there, but I know you'll continue to shine no matter which course you take.
Thank you so much!! I think it’s just going to be a matter of trial and error to see what works and which places feel like a good fit. It’s so hard to tell now that everything has changed so much. I guess we’ll see! If I notice anything that emerges from trying to do it again, I’ll be sure to write about it in the future. The worst of it was the Twitter ban, reinstatement, and subsequent bizarre shadowban, which I wrote about before.
I remember you talking about the Twitter debacle. Sounds like a real rollercoaster. And not the good kind. The bad kind, like in Final Destination 3. That must be very frustrating.
As debacles go, it was way more roller than coaster. As in, steamroller. Zero coasting. And yes, super frustrating when my posts started getting 120K views and then all of a sudden my account gets shut off with no way to appeal. Merp. All the merp. Buckets and buckets of merp.
Omg, so true it has been an everyday occurrence to me for years whatever maybe I’ll start my own web site then if these so called tools can’t play fair, be even handed or at a bare minimum be decent human beings. Better than having all my materials, art, writings etc stolen from me which has happened to me also. Whatever I find it beyond humerus though that some find me or what I try to put out on some of these g d forsaken platform’s threatening enough to do so in the first place. More their own problem than mine though so I’ll continue to do what I do shadow banned or other. I know why I do what I do, agree it is low life behavior to do so.
Quickly onboarding and processing, internally. As Hitchcock and famous Nelly-ride wit me, show up. Our spelled words are powerful. So much, that if I was a shadow banner I’d ban myself in lil’ rascal style.
And this is why I prefer email for the people/subjects that I actually want to hear from/about. Then I actually get the messages I want to see. I keep FB to check on family. I rarely visit much else. I try to keep most SM sites as politically free as possible.
Wonderful, well-written, enlightening piece. Thanks so much Demi for highly valuable content, again.
The hardest truth about being shadowbanned (or wholeheartedly ignored!) for me is the effect it has on resolve.
It’s so much easier to quit when you’re not heard/seen/appreciated.
I’d like to send a personal message to all of my fan out there: you are seen, you are heard, you are appreciated, and you are loved.
Even if I can’t find the time to single you out.
#KeepTheFaith
I KNOW I have been/still am being gaslighted and shadow banned. With the Ai infection moving thru humanity at lightning speed, it is almost impossible to stay in front of the Matrix these days.