I used to date a current Meta employee. After we broke up, I met and fell in love with a woman who makes a good chunk of change as a social media marketer. Here’s where shit gets weird. Ever since we met, she continued to casually mention that her viewership is down across the board. Fast forward to the present day, I will literally get more views than her by posting paint drying (literally - dm me and I’ll show you) compared to some of her epic content in Africa and shit like that. Despite her blue checkmark, she won’t show up in searches until you spell out the entire handle….even THEN this weird account with 2k followers and a similar name will pop up before her. The tin foil hat version of me is convinced that my ex and/or a colleague of hers is manipulating something. I know this may come across superficial and vapid, but her declining analytics can result in tens of thousands in lost revenue. I would love to chat with anyone who has some sort of knowledge of how the story views/reels/posts get amplified and/or suppressed. To be fair - she had a couple reels pop off recently; one with 150k-ish views, and another with 2.1 million (that was her biggest reel by far, apparently the LGBTQ+ community loved this chair she was sponsoring). It’s just bizarre to both of us that none of her professional photos/videos do well, but slapping a quick reel spinning around on a chair will get 2 million views. A common question I get often is “Does she post controversial content? And that answer is an objective “no”. Not once. TL;DR - I’m paranoid that my ex gf at Meta is stunting my current fiancées career on instagram via shadow banning. Can someone at Meta please help me out to explain what a rational explanation could be, as opposed to my tinfoil hat theory? My TC - 170k #meta #instagram #instagramrevenue #facebook #dataanalytics #instagramanalytics #tech
Lol no
Glad I made someone laugh. Sheesh
Lol no
She sucks. That is the root cause. Not your ex zucks.
Ha!
CIA uses their resources to get your nudes, so why wouldn’t meta employees use their access for personal reasons?
Resources = them asking nicely
No (used to work at FB). This is just coincidental timing of changes to the algorithm. Tbh, it speaks badly of your influencer gf that she doesn't understand what's going on. Her reels do well but her photos and videos don't? Is she not aware that tik tok is eating Facebook's lunch? Is she not aware that FB is pushing reels super hard to compete? It's literally her job to know this kind of thing and keep up with the content wars. She needs to adapt her content.
Appreciate the feedback.
No (used to work at FB also).
Fb to Disney? You coasting now? How’s the Tc?
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I work at Instagram, the answer is No. There’s a lot of inherent volatility with content reach. Even if the algorithm doesn’t change, people’s overall interests change, the world changes, and the content you’re competing with changes. For example if you post on Mother’s Day, and everyone else is appreciating their moms and getting a lot of engagement, it’s a tough environment to compete with, and your content will be ranked lower in comparison that day.
Super helpful - thank you!
It’s against the rules and there are systems to prevent you from doing this. If you got caught trying to do it you would be fired. It would be some secret agent level shit to do this and succeed at it. I think it would require a long con with social engineering, obtaining placement in a relevant team, technical chops to find a way to obfuscate your changes and get past code review and get it shipped. All this while having an actual job to do, where you could get a better rating and paid actual money by putting this energy there instead. Basically, you are having a paranoid delusion, take a chill pill, stop obsessing over your ex. It’s unhealthy.
Google has a deny-list of search terms in a text file. People auto add thousands at a time. Totally possible for someone to slip this through without being caught. Just saying. But, said person is likely doing this multiple times and could be caught
You cant just add stuff to denylist. Goes through a CL or through a operator workflow depending on which product area. Ranking algorithms cannot be just hand modified.
Yea
Finally, a rational response. Thanks Pinterest !
short answer: no.