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Instagram Duplicated Content Shadowban Wave refers to discourse surrounding a number of Instagram meme pages getting their posts flagged for being "duplicated content" on November 7th, 2025. Instagram users who post non-OC memes received a notification from Meta that warned, "Content you recently shared may not be original to you," alongside a list of recent posts that violated the "duplicated content" rule. Several meme pages raised alarms and expressed their concerns about their reach being limited for reposting memes or being shadowbanned. Some Instagram users theorized that the rule may have been enforced widely on November 7th as a means of curtailing the Charlie Kirk AI Faceswap meme trend, which was prevalent online at the time.

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On November 7th, 2025, several Instagram pages, and meme pages in particular, posted about receiving a "duplicate content" warning from Meta that urged them to delete unoriginal content they had posted. According to the notification, failure to delete the flagged posts would result in a shadowban in which the account's reach is curtailed, and the account is stopped from being shown to non-followers on the Explore page.

That day, the Instagram^[1] page @still_on_a_downward_spiral posted a series of stories about their content being flagged, writing, "Instagram declaring war on shitposting pages now would be a good time to follow my backup lol @on_a_downward_spiral3." Another story showed the content flags they received despite deleting 200 posts. A third story called the November 7th, 2025, event the "Great Depression of Meme Pages."

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Other meme pages shared the violations their accounts had been served on November 7th, 2025, as seen in a post by the Instagram^[2] page @crisis.acting that read, "Every slide on the last collection was reported… the crisis.acting project might be over soon if meta keeps this going."

Also on November 7th, Instagram^[3] user @dankdumplingdude posted screenshots of the "duplicate content" and shadowban warnings they had received from Meta.

Some internet users theorized that the violations may be related to the Charlie Kirk AI Faceswap meme trend that was prominent online at the time, with Instagram^[4] user @deepintelligenthiphop writing on November 7th, "I'm just gonna say IDGAF, the content flag wave was because some individuals with pull want Instagram to kill the Charlie Kirk AI meme. They flagged duplicate and original content from the past week to be discreet. The wave targeted underground / meme related accounts where the trend originated from."

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