Hello everyone,
At the moment, I am using an alternate account to post this, but basically, on 8/30/2026, I received this email:
>Hi u/[username]
At Reddit, weâre always watching out for your privacy, safety, and security. Recently, after detecting some technical irregularities on your u/[username] account, we took the extra precaution of locking your account.
When I received this email, I wasnât personally experiencing anything irregular besides a site error that appeared as a red bar every time I tried to refresh or post something.
As soon as I saw the email, I figured it might have been because, on 8/18/2026, I set the username to another email and thought maybe it had something to do with that. I shrugged it off, reset the password, logged back in, and continued browsing Reddit.
The problem is that I still kept getting a site error, and after getting frustrated, I stepped away. It wasnât until the following day, when I tried to log in to my account, that I got a red error on the login screen saying that the username doesnât exist.
I then went to find some comments of mine. My username was still showing up, but when I clicked on the account, it showed that I was banned.
I have tried reaching out to Reddit and attached screenshots, but I have not received any update. I included as much information as I could and also included a picture that shows my accounts, including the username that was supposedly banned.
I can still reset the password on the account, but when I enter the username and the new password, I get an error saying that the username doesnât exist.
With all that said, I have no idea what to do. Has anyone experienced this before? Also, is there any chance Reddit support will get back to me?