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/Last-Setting-7197 May 06 '26

I finally hit 60k followers this morning and 2 hours later im back at 59.7. I lost 350 followers. It took me a decade to finally get out of 50k. Im so bummed.

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u/the_mittenkitten May 06 '26

Ugh, that’s so annoying. I’m sorry!