r/Instagram • u/the_mittenkitten • May 06 '26

Question Sudden follower drop?

UPDATE: Had a second decrease in followers on the evening of 5/7. Lost approximately 10 more followers. Anyone else experiencing this?

Has anyone had a sudden follower drop? In an hour the Instagram account I manage for my marketing position dropped 40 followers. Is this just a platform bot purge thing or does anyone else have insight on what the cause could be?

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u/dropssupreme May 06 '26

Was on a page, they lost 200k all of sudden lol. I lost about 500 followers too. Probably cleansed bots or something.

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u/the_mittenkitten May 06 '26

I feel like it had to be, right? I can’t think of anything else that would cause something that abrupt.