Why did Instagram delete my selfie? And twice?!

[Creakyladder]

I usually post pretty photos of sunsets, scenery, stuff like that.

Found a selfie that accidentally took on my iPhone, just my face against the sky with my hair flying around. I liked the light & colours, so posted it, with a few lines about selfies.

It received quite a lot of likes! But got deleted.

I posted it again. Again, got my likes, a few new followers. And it got deleted AGAIN!!

Why?

Does anyone know?

Ask Instagram?

It looks like someone else and they think you are appropriating the image?

I already did, but have had no reply.

How is anyone here supposed to know, or even make an accurate guess? Take it up with instagram.

That’s so strange! It looked like nobody but me - unless I have a doppelgänger somewhere

@Ughmaybenot

How is anyone here supposed to know, or even make an accurate guess? Take it up with instagram.

Maybe someone had the same thing happen to them?

Maybe someone on here has more experience?

Maybe someone has worked for them before?

Could be a whole load of reasons. Crikey! Why not?!

Oh, cross post. Could’ve been that they thought it was a stolen photo. Or you’ve left out the fact you were actually topless in the selfie. Who knows? Instagram has been suffering some problems/dropping out altogether the last few days I believe, and can be glitchy at the best of times tbh so it could be anything.

Thanks for those ideas.

I wondered if it was something to do with an algorithm. Annoying, as I wanted to show a different genre of picture to my usual ones. Was definitely not topless! It was obvious that it was just my face. Looked like the same ‘me’ as in my profile photo.

I didn’t realise that Instagram had been having problems. It just seemed so odd that it was specific to this one photo, which, if anything, was more genuine than anything else I’ve posted. What a shame!

What was the caption you used?

One of your followers could have reported it maybe?

Was it literally just your face - no boobs?

It is strange. I’ve not really come across seemingly-random-but-multiple deletions before personally.

Are you sure it's deleted? Gone from your profile page and not just dropping off the feed?

Try uploading it with a different file name? I imagine if they delete img123456 from your pictures and img123456 pops back up again they'll just delete it

The first caption was about it being an accidental selfie. I wrote a few lines about a paper that found that the perfect selfie is taken from 5 feet away. The second time I reposted it, I just said something like - the accidental selfie strikes back.

It was literally my face against a sky with a small cloud in it. My eyes (wearing sunglasses), nose and mouth. Not even my neck!

I have no reason to suppose that any followers would report it but would love to know what they found so controversial, if so!

I’ve never come across something like this, either!

@Bahhh

Are you sure it's deleted? Gone from your profile page and not just dropping off the feed?

It’s definitely deleted.

@Catapultme

Try uploading it with a different file name? I imagine if they delete img123456 from your pictures and img123456 pops back up again they'll just delete it

I did this the second time I posted it.

So weird!

It could be the caption. I wonder if the word “accidental” is on a no-no list somewhere.

Post it again with a different caption like “beautiful sunset” and see if it’s taken down.

Captioning on Insta is weird. An account I follow has a temporary ban because they used a caption which Instagram said made it look like they were trying to misuse the algorithm for extra likes.

An account I follow has a temporary ban because they used a caption which Instagram said made it look like they were trying to misuse the algorithm for extra likes.

That’s so odd! What caption did they use? How could you misuse the algorithm through a caption?

That’s interesting! Thanks for this. Hmm yes it could be the word “accidental” (although there is a hashtag “accidental selfies”). Intriguing! I’m a bit embarrassed to post it again, but it would be a good experiment.

I didn’t realise that about captioning. I wonder what that caption was!

OP post it again without the ‘accidental’ and see what happens. Also share it to you stories explaining that it got taken down and asking if anyone knows why - if someone reported it perhaps they’ll say something.

Put the photo on here

Omg #accidentalselfie is hilarious - half of those are definitely not accidental!!

My daughter has an Instagram account for horse riding

She had a post last week that kept being deleted - her cantering through the sea and a short video of them jumping groynes - no one else in the photo at all, nothing in the background other than a cliff, sea and sky. The caption said something about how lucky we were to live where we do and what a great time she’d had.

She had to post it about 4 times in the end

That’s a good idea. Will get the guts to re-post and to ask on my stories.

No way am I sharing on here!

I know, #accidentalselfies is a funny one!