Can we talk about how one bad caption wrecked my whole TikTok push?

I was posting from a coffee shop in Austin last month, same hashtags that got 50k views before, and suddenly my reach dropped to 300 because I wrote a caption with a typo that triggered the spam filter. It took me 4 hours to figure out it was the word "fre3" in the first line, not the content. Anyone else get shadowbanned over something this dumb?

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the_alex6d ago

Feel for you, that’s brutal. One typo nuking your whole reach is exactly the kind of dumb algorithm nonsense that makes you want to throw your phone. Hope the next upload dodges that filter and gets back to normal numbers.

the_claire5d ago

What if the typo actually helped, and the low numbers are just people being bored of the same content, not some secret algorithm grudge? At least @the_alex gets a built-in excuse, whereas the rest of us have to admit when we post a dud for no reason.