Shadowban
Also known as: reach limiting, quiet suppression
A platform limiting reach without telling anybody, so that a post stays visible to its author while reaching almost nobody else.
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What it means
The defining feature is the silence. Nothing is removed and no notification arrives, and the only evidence is a view count that collapsed against everything the account published before it.
Platforms rarely use the word and mostly do the thing. Reduced distribution for borderline material is written policy in several places already, described in language that nobody recognises as describing this.
It is distinguishable from a removal and not from bad luck. A Recommendation algorithm that simply did not push something produces an identical pattern, which is what makes the subject so difficult to establish either way.
How it works in practice
Checking from a logged-out account answers the visibility question. A post that appears under its Hashtag to somebody else is reaching the feed; one that does not appear is being held back somewhere.
The usual triggers are known. Borderline material, external links, repeated Cross-posting, flooded tags and anything that looks automated, which together cover most of the accidental cases people run into.
Waiting is a real strategy. Reach limiting of this kind is frequently temporary, and an account that stops doing whatever triggered it recovers over a week or two without having appealed anything at all.
What to watch out for
Almost every suspected case is something else. A weak opening, a bad time of day or a saturated topic explains most collapses, and Audience retention figures usually say which of those it was.
Reposting makes it worse. Publishing the same video again signals exactly the behaviour that triggers limiting in the first place, which turns a quiet post into an account that is actually flagged.
There is nobody to ask. No appeal exists for something a platform does not acknowledge doing, which is why prevention is the only response available to anybody.
How RawClip handles it
Nothing about a delivered sequence affects platform distribution, since what reaches a feed is decided by the post itself rather than by the edit inside it. Music licensed for use in the result at least removes the claim-related triggers from the list of possible causes.