From Kicksta:
Hashtags are an important part of any business’s Instagram strategy, but it’s important that you monitor which ones you’re using. You don’t want to accidentally use a banned hashtag, as it can derail your entire Instagram marketing plan. If you’ve been using many different hashtags and other organic Instagram growth strategies and your account hasn’t been growing much (or at all), you might be accidentally using banned hashtags.
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Banned hashtags are hashtags that Instagram users have reported because the posts using them go against Instagram’s guidelines. This means that any post that uses that hashtag will be hidden, which will only hurt your organic reach and growth efforts.
Banned hashtags are always changing, based on community reports and Instagram’s investigations. Unfortunately, Instagram doesn’t publish a list of the currently banned hashtags.
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Instagram bans hashtags because of reports from users. Typically it happens because people are posting inappropriate content and using certain hashtags. Some of the hashtags that are banned, though, are ones you wouldn’t necessarily expect, like #beautyblogger. Sometimes, though, close alternatives are still okay. In this case, #beautybloggers, with an “s” on the end, is not banned and works just fine.
Link to the rest at Kicksta
As a disclaimer, PG claims no expertise with respect to Instagram, including Instagram hash tags.
As a further disclaimer, PG is not a #beautyblogger or a member of a group of #beautybloggers and, although PG is somewhat hesitant to predict the future in absolute terms, he has a very high degree of confidence that he will never use a hashtag like #beautyblogger for anything he does online.
In the interest of scientific inquiry, he checked out a list of banned Instagram hashtags at the OP to see if #book or #books were prohibited. Visitors to TPV will be relieved to learn that, as of the date and time PG made this post, both #book and #books appear to be just fine in the opinion of the Instagram Hashtag Police (#hashtagpolice).
However, you will want to make certain that, in addition to #beautyblogger you don’t use any of the following hashtags beginning with the letter “B” lest you be “shadowbanned” from Instagram:
- #besties
- #bikinibody
- #boho
- #brain
Remember, you can always rely on TPV for the latest updates on all things online because PG (AKA #bikinibody) is constantly on the alert.
On a serious note, #bikinibody is banned because it’s considered to be “body shaming”. In other words, you can brag about about being moderately-to-overly obese etc., etc. but don’t you dare brag about eating healthy and/or bragging about how skinny you are and/or hot you look in a bikini.. TikTok is like this as well, in that you can show, but not tell.
For me, Instagram (whole owned by FB) is starting to turn into a cesspool like Twitter.
Oh, that last made me starting laughing aloud at my desk. Thank you… in my professional life I will be managing the company instagram, for my sins. This was useful information to have.
I still believe in the value of #bikinibody through the online world, A. I’m thinking of launching a Kickstarter campaign to #bringbackbikinibody.
*snort*
Mind you, I’d like to bring back my own bikini body (not that I ever had one).
Thank you for doing the hard job of keeping track of # bikinibody, and keeping it up to date.
Just in case you thought it was a thankless job.