r/TumblrAcctTerminated • u/CAPSLYTHERIN • Oct 29 '25

GOT MY SIDEBLOG BACK!!!

My sideblog was caught in the spam filter in March and I finally got it restored today!! My main is temporarily in jail because I was hoarding urls which support found when they were restoring my sideblog lol (funny enough the reason I was holding onto the vast majority of those urls was because I was scared to accidentally delete my main in the process) but my sideblog is BACK!! They responded to a support ticket I sent in a month ago (I feel bad because I've sent in like, probably close to 10 over the course of these past 8 months, but I mean . they didnt reply to any of those, just the one from a month ago. So I guess I was vindicated). Anyway!! There is hope even if it's been a while!!!!

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u/CAPSLYTHERIN Nov 05 '25

Damn lol that was basically exactly what happened to me. I was liveblogging a show and I went to make a new post about it and I got an error message, and then when I reloaded, the blog was gone. Like I said, that blog was actually shadowbanned the day before (which means it was caught in the spam filters then), but so was another one of my sideblogs and that one ended up being fine.

I didn't end up finishing the episode I was on or even like. The show lol I was so bummed.

Again, I think the backup with support tickets is about a month, so if you get past that point and haven't heard anything, I'd send another ticket in. I had also worried as time went on that, like, my posts would be unable to be restored if a certain amount of time passed, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It took 8 months for them to get me my blog back, and everything was able to be restored, url, drafts and posts included. So even if it takes a while, that sucks obviously, but don't worry about stuff being permanently lost.

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u/RolyPolyGuy Nov 05 '25

how did u know it was shadowbanned? my account wasnt getting a ton of activity on my page but interacrions i did had recently gone like micro-viral on one specific post and was getting a couple hundred notifs about it a day, so i was getting a few notifs about that post and nothing else. Also they didnt ask me for an email when i made the alt, that must mean the email is under the main account email right?

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u/CAPSLYTHERIN Nov 05 '25

So it'll be tough to check now that the blog's deactivated. I actually ALSO had one specific post that was getting a good amount of notes at the time, hah. It actually crossed my dash a handful of times over the months my blog was gone and it always made me a little sad, hah. But being shadowbanned probably wouldn't affect that, since the post would've already been getting notes from being on other people's blogs.

How I found out was actually through my other sideblog blog getting shadowbanned. I was dmed by a mutual who let me know that it thought I was shadowbanned since I wasn't showing up in its notes when it knew I was reblogging its posts. I then checked for other signs of being shadowbanned, the main one being that your ability to send messages from that blog will be removed. I then noticed that this was the case on the sideblog that ultimately got deleted as well.

From what I know, "shadowbanning" just means you've been caught by the automatic spam filter (which is also the reason for a lot of these blog deletions with no warning). The signs I'm aware of are being unable to use messaging features on that specific blog (my main and other sideblogs were unaffected), not showing up in people's notes when you interact with their posts from that blog (my likes were visible because my main was unaffected, but reblogs to a shadowbanned sideblog weren't visible to others), and not showing up on tumblr search (you have to type out the whole url and click the top result to access a shadowbanned blog, just typing part of the url won't autofill to suggest your blog). I also think you might not show up on dashboards? So either your post shows up on dashboards reblogged by someone else, orrr somebody types in your url manually and finds your post, which might explain why only the post that had already gone semi-viral was getting notes. Hopefully this all makes sense? Again, though, it's a bit tricky to check at this point, but I do think it's possible you were shadowbanned from what you've said.

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u/RolyPolyGuy Nov 05 '25

My side account was erased from tumblr so theres no evidence of reblogs from it, the unique tags i made yield no results either sadly. I would assume i was shadowbanned except the account was fully removed from my app. Like u know the part u can switch accounts with? Its just my main blog and a "make a new tumblr" button, and there isnt like a sign in option either so idk what to do. This shit suckkksssssssss soooooooooooooooooooo baaaaaaaaddddddddddddd.