Hey, i started instagram 4 weeks ago. Im from Russia so i had to use a proxy, i bought a new phone, got a US eSim, made a fresh apple id, gmail, instagram, everything on proxy with US phone number, did a proper warm up, didnt do mass follow (slowly followed 20 big US pages),didnt dm, didnt mass comment. I started posting, posted some stories (my own images and pintrest images edited through canva). My first posts got 500-600 views, i started doing threads, some posts there got 2.5k views. I was at 30 followers on insta. And a couple of days ago i noticed that all my posts are getting 20-30 views. I dmed the guy that we have for unban service and asked if my account is shadowbanned and he said yes. I asked for the reason but he said "in account status". IDK if its because of the proxy or anything else but now i feel like im done with that. I was using metaspoof to get realistic metadata on my pics and i even mixed in edited pintrest images into my carousels. My account is shown in global search and i dont have any flags inside my profile. My content was not looking ai btw. I really feel like im burnt out, just wanted to share my story here. Lately i was using Nano Banana Pro and as far as i know they have ai tag inserted and maybe meta can read that and see that the content is made with it idk

Just got a First big approach from someone big creator, Don't know if it was spam or not, I am still celebrating