Spotted: "shadowban checker" tools are selling you fear

Spotted: "shadowban checker" tools are selling you fear
There's a cottage industry of apps that 'scan' your account and declare you shadowbanned. Word is most just check if your posts appear under a hashtag — which proves nothing, since hashtag pages were deprioritized platform-wide. There's no hidden flag these tools can read; they have zero API access to ranking internals. A reach dip is almost always content fatigue or a topic the model cooled on. Save the subscription; the 'ban' is usually just a bad week.
Watching this.