Myth: 'I got shadowbanned' explains the drop

Myth: 'I got shadowbanned' explains the drop
Most diagnosed 'shadowbans' are regression to the mean. n=300 accounts flagged by owners as shadowbanned, 30-day audit.

— Confirmed hashtag-search suppression: 7%
— Reach dip following one viral post (normal decay): 64%
— No statistically significant drop at all: 29%

Reach is right-skewed; one outlier post resets your baseline upward, so the next 'normal' post feels like a crash. So what: compare to your median, not your last peak, before reaching for the shadowban theory.