r/TikTokLounge

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to understand if anyone else has experienced something similar, because TikTok Support keeps giving me contradictory answers and the whole case is looping.

My TikTok account is: u/pogadajmy**.o.gierk**

A few days ago, my videos suddenly stopped getting any distribution. I don’t mean low reach — I mean exactly 0 views. New videos and some previous videos are not being shown to anyone at all.

I contacted TikTok Support. At first, they asked me for a link to a specific video, so I sent it. Then they replied that the visibility of the video had been restricted because of a Community Guidelines violation.

The problem is:

The video was not deleted.
I received no system notification about any violation.
There is no appeal button on the video.
There is no appeal option in Inbox → System notifications.
My Account Status says my account is in good standing and has no active restrictions.
TikTok Support also later told me that my account has no active restrictions.

So I’m stuck in a contradiction:

TikTok Support says the video visibility was restricted because of a violation, but TikTok does not show me what rule was broken, does not show any system notification, and does not give me any way to appeal.

Every time I reply, Support either asks again for the same video link, tells me to appeal through System notifications, or sends generic advice about hashtags, audience engagement, posting regularly, or using Promote. That does not address the issue, because this is not a growth problem — my content is literally getting 0 views.

I also tried creating a new report as a technical issue, explaining that this seems like an account-level distribution bug. Support still keeps redirecting me back to one video link or generic growth advice.

Has anyone had this happen before?

Specifically:

• TikTok says a video was restricted, but there is no notification and no appeal button.
• Account status says everything is fine.
• Support says there are no active restrictions.
• Videos still get exactly 0 views.
• Support gets stuck in a loop and cannot provide a real appeal path.

What did you do? Did the account recover after some time, or did you have to escalate it somewhere else?

Any advice would be appreciated, because right now I have no way to appeal the restriction and no clear explanation from TikTok.

Has anyone actually get rid of the new Shadowban?

Since April 23 some users are reporting a Shadowban where your tiktoks do not hit the for you anymore + you can’t share your own tiktoks to your Story because the button is missing.

The "Account Check" feature does show that everything is fine and there is no restriction. But there is.

I'm not talking about the 200 view jail, that’s just your content not performing. I mean when you literally get no foryou page views.

Only Tiktoks that were published after the accounts got shadowbanned are affected when you get this shadowban.

Had anyone success getting rid of it and if, how?

Update:

the only way to get an official statement from Tiktok that you are shadowbanned and not eligible to appear on the for you feed is trying to promote a tiktok you post for 5$.

They will instantly reject your tiktok and say it’s not eligible for the for you page. So basically the only way to make tiktok telling you that you are shadowbanned is trying to give them money, such a nice platform wow.

Genuinely asking because I've seen completely opposite experiences from people.

Some creators say reach improved after January. Content that used to get suppressed is now performing fine.

Others say it's gotten worse. More bans. More flags. Less transparency than before.

I'm in Texas, and my experience has been noticeably worse since February, but I don't know if that's because of the ownership change or just the algorithm doing what it always does.

Has anything actually changed for you since the US deal closed in January, or does it feel exactly the same?

Ive gotten a bunch of people villainizing others for daring to consume meat and swearing by veganism and pushing it down other people's throaths like the diet/food equivalent of Jehovah's Witness on my for ypu page constantly, and acting like they are morally superior for it and everyone else is the spawn of satan for being omnivores.

I think the Billie Eilish drama is a contributor, but this has been happening to my fyp occasionaly randomly ever since 2023, where it just reccommends me a bunch of these idiotic takes

I dont care if youre vegan and i dont have a problem with veganism itself, i have a problem with these certain people's BEHAVIOR and ATTITUDE about it, like what the actual fuck is going on. I am so tired of it.

Vegan teacher 2.0, but it seems to be spread around as multiple people this time

Where the fuck are they coming from and why are they so hellbent on being this passively agressive and performative. Literally the worst case of performative activism ive ever seen since the 2020 vsco girl "save the turtles" paper straw stuff

i know this isn’t the right sub but the main tiktok sub won’t let me post this 😭😭 sorry plss help

i’m thinking about making a second account that is just for watching videos from artists, musicians, fashion creators etc, without having a tyler catastrophe jumpscare every few videos, but still keeping my main page for the brainrot stuff. will my main page’s algorithm be the same as the other account’s (or vice versa)? like will it let me have those two algorithms without them affecting eachother. obviously tiktok is spying on me and is going to know that i’m looking for art and suggest it on my main page regardless but will this work for the most part??

Spent 7 months getting to 10k.

Hit the milestone on a Monday.

By Thursday, my views dropped from a 40k average to 800.

No flagged videos. No warnings. No explanation.

The algorithm celebrated my milestone by making me invisible.

Your videos. Your comments. Your followers list. Your analytics history.

All of it gone overnight with no way to recover any of it.

No export option. No archive. No grace period.

Other platforms at least let you download your data before an account closes.

TikTok just wipes everything and sends you a template email.

You built that. You own that content. And they can make it disappear forever with zero recourse.

That's not a policy disagreement. That's a creator rights issue that nobody is fighting hard enough about.

It's not just followers.

It's two years of content. Algorithm learning your niche. Audience that trusted you. Collaborations. Brand deals. Comments from people who actually cared.

You can't just "start over."

Starting over means rebuilding all of that while the algorithm treats you like a brand new account with zero credibility.

"Just make a new one" is the most tone-deaf advice in this sub and it gets repeated constantly.

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for advice on behalf of my company. Our official company TikTok account has been banned/suspended for more than a month now.

We’ve already submitted appeals through TikTok Help/Support and followed the usual support process, but we haven’t received a clear resolution or proper explanation yet. The account is important for our brand presence and marketing activity, so the delay is becoming quite challenging.

Has anyone here successfully recovered a business/company TikTok account after a long suspension?

Thanks in advance

For the last 6 days I’ve been experiencing a very harsh shadowban. On analytics I get 0% fyp traffic now, I have no warnings or flagged content on my account.

I usually get 1000+ views minimum in every video I post, now I get literally 0. My content is not controversial, adult or anything the algorithm should flag. My content is high quality and original.

I have even reached out to them and they just gaslight me about it. This account is my business and really important to me, has anybody managed to fix this? I haven’t done anything wrong and I don’t understand why this has happened.

No live chat. No phone number. No real human review for most accounts.

Just a form that feeds into an automated system that quotes the same guidelines back at you.

Any other industry with this level of customer support would lose users immediately.

But TikTok knows you're not going anywhere because your audience is there and nowhere else.

So the support stays broken because fixing it isn't profitable.

That's the whole story

I feel like I’m shadow banned or something. I started to follow some accounts. I posted my first carousel with description and hashtags and it got 0 views. Is it normal? Should I continue to post?

Hello.

My account got locked almost 3 weeks ago, and I've been contacting TikTok Support thoroughly. I believe my account was locked due to me moving from Australia (my home country) to the United States and me changing devices, so I am assuming it was because of suspicious activity.

I have provided them with proof of ownership and I actually got them to confirm it and I got up to the "we're forwarding your case to the internal team" support reply, and then they denied it and basically told me they can't do anything.

I've done everything they've told me step-by-step, and still nothing. I've given them information that I've had to fork out and remember shit like when I made the account (who the fuck remembers the month and year they created their account) - I'm pretty positive I've been on TikTok since mid to end, possibly July-August era 2019.

I also completed "friend verification" when it first started, so I screenshotted that and showed them multiple times + an email 2step under the same account, but different username, which being that it is TikTok they should know this stuff but obviously fucking not.

This is genuinely pissing me the fuck off.

Anyway, has anyone got some advice for me? BTW I'm 16, so sorry if my grammar and punctuation aren't correct.

No notification. No email. No warning.

Your account just quietly stops reaching anyone and you spend weeks thinking your content got worse.

Every other platform at least tells you when something is wrong.

TikTok just lets you keep posting into a void while you blame yourself.

And the worst part is we've all just accepted this as part of using the app.

At what point did "the platform can secretly suppress your account with zero explanation" become something we're okay with?

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I got banned for impersonation, appeal instantly denied in the app, I went through the feedback thing and they gave me this exact same e-mail 2 weeks ago, I tried to follow up to no response. I opened another ticket and this is where I am again. I am hoping I just got unlucky last time but I am not sure if they even give it a second review at this point, knowing TikTok.

I know this is going to be controversial but I've been sitting on this for weeks and I need to say it.

Before January 2026 I never thought about whether my content was going to get flagged.

I posted. It either did well or it didn't. But it went up.

Since the ownership changed I've had more videos flagged, more reach suppressed, and more accounts in my circle quietly banned than in the entire two years before that combined.

When the glitches started happening right after the ownership transfer, TikTok blamed a power outage at a data center. But users were watching political content disappear in real time and the timing was impossible to ignore.

California's governor launched a review into whether TikTok was violating state law by suppressing certain content. That's not a small thing. That's a sitting governor saying something is wrong here.

And then a week later everyone just moved on.

New sound dropped. New trend. New drama.

The conversation died.

But the flagging didn't stop.

I'm not saying the old TikTok was perfect. It wasn't.

But there was something predictable about it. You knew the rules even when they were frustrating.

Now it feels like the rules change depending on what you're posting about and nobody will admit that's happening.

The platform didn't get freer when it became American owned.

It just got differently controlled.

And we're all pretending that's not worth talking about.

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I want to talk about this because I don't think it's getting enough attention.

Since March 2026 there have been multiple reports of TikTok's backend doing something genuinely strange.

Videos stuck at 0 views for hours with no explanation. Content not loading. Uploads going through but getting zero distribution. FYP feeds freezing or showing the same videos on repeat.

And TikTok's response to all of it has been almost nothing.

They acknowledged at some point that they had made "significant progress" fixing an issue. Which tells you there was an issue worth acknowledging. But the communication before that point was basically silence.

Here's what bothers me most about how this played out.

During those weeks when the platform was clearly having backend problems, thousands of creators were in communities like this one panicking about shadowbans.

Deleting videos. Taking breaks. Changing their content. Convinced they had done something wrong.

Some of them probably did take the break, came back when the issue had quietly resolved on TikTok's end, and genuinely believed the break is what fixed it.

It wasn't. The platform just started working again.

But they'll carry that lesson forward forever. "Taking a 2 week break fixed my shadowban." And they'll tell other people that. And those people will do it too.

This is what happens when a platform with a billion users refuses to communicate clearly about its own technical problems.

Real people make real decisions based on bad information because the actual information was never given to them.

If your views dropped in the last 6 weeks and you still don't know why, genuinely consider that it might not have been you at all.

Sometimes the platform just breaks and doesn't tell anyone.

I’ve just been on the app for the first time in about 6 months. I can safely say the app has changed massively in that time.

It feels a lot cheaper somehow, but there is also an abominable number of severely anorexic content creators on there now.

I’ve taken screen shots of just a few I was served in a row. It’s absolutely shocking. These women are literally skeletal and appear to be relishing in it. The more I reported, the more I was served the content.

What the hell is going on inside this app?

Hey guys, I've been posting couple humor content on tiktok since Feb 2026. I only had 1 viral so far with 180k views, not the usual millions that everyone else gets apart from me...

I do short form only so is it worth continuing? Because I hears tiktok only regards long-form now...

Also I've been posting the same videos on my Instagram and Facebook and honestly, they perform better over there! On instagram especially I get 4-5 digit views for multiple videos. On Facebook, it's not that good but at least it reaches more than 200 up to 1k at least. BUT ON TIKTOK, this is way worse! Because I'm stuck in 200-300 views most of the time there...

I don't know what I'm doing wrong. People on insta seem to enjoy my 80k+ viewed videos but on tiktok it's only at 200 views...

My main goal here is to of course entertain viewers and at the same time get passive income from making content in the long run.

I get discouraged sometimes when I see newer accounts getting followers fast and insane view counts - even those with low res videos.

I don't heavily edit mine, I just make them simple and relatable but I'm not sure why they're not working in tiktok like other people do! :(