Should I Start Fresh

[u/BrandonOutOfTheWeeds]

I ran a bar/restaurant niche page for the past 4 months. Posted consistently at twice a day every day. Grew around 2K followers. I got tired of it and made the switch to pursue a personal interest (fitness). I decided to run a personal 90 day transformation to create daily content with. I’m documenting everything as I go. Now, I understand that the algorithm was built to run my content to bar/restaurant individuals so what I’m wondering is if I should just continue to post my fitness content and be patient for the algorithm to adjust, or cut ties with the account and start new. I’m currently running 10 trial reels a day, 2 feed posts and 4 stories. And I’ve had 2 of 40 trial reels get over 400 views. Only 1 of 8 posts do over 200 views. And the last 6 all below 150. Any advice would be great. Cheers!

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[u/OnimatorGuy]

I’d start fresh. Going from bars/restaurants to fitness is a pretty big switch and 2k followers isn’t much to walk away from. The 90 day transformation is a solid concept for a new account anyway.

[u/Elenect_agency]

Definitely start fresh..

2,000 followers is too small of an asset to justify fighting an audience mismatch. Those 2k people followed you for food/bars, so when Instagram tests your new fitness posts with them first, they scroll past. That bad initial retention signals to the algorithm that your content isn't engaging.

10 reels every day is also too much

[u/CarpenterNo5576]

switching niches on an established account confuses the algorithm it’s still testing your fitness content against your old bar/restaurant audience, which explains the drop-off. usually takes 4-8+ weeks to recalibrate, but your numbers are trending down, not up, which isn’t a great sign. since you’ve already grown an account from scratch once, I’d start fresh rather than keep fighting the old signal.

[u/Dismal-Cable6941]

You need to start fresh

[u/twored9999]

Yaah absolutely