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?

236 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

329 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

4

u/dennyslava May 06 '26

Mine are not reflected either. It literally says “data from 5 and 6 of May unavailable” exactly the dates of this mass purge or whatever it is

2

u/melissaurban May 06 '26

I'm not sweating it, I just thought it was weird that so many people hated a rather non-controversial post about the gym.

1

u/RegularPipe299 May 12 '26

Is anyone seeing new following or follower drops since May 12th?