These brands get you banned 🚫 luxury community Instagram DRAMA!
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2024
- The luxury community on Instagram is in shock: posts get deleted, entire luxury accounts get blocked and banned - just because certain luxury designer brand don't want you to mention them - or even show any of their logos and items on your profile! If you show a Louis Vuitton or Chanel handbag or SLGs on one of your pictures: you might be in trouble. Cause these luxury brand come after you for trademark infringements - they get your posts deleted and might get your entire luxury focused account banned. In this video I share some of my thoughts on the recent Instagram drama and luxury commuinity purge - unfortunately I myself don't know the new rules, by which luxury lovers on Instagram have to play now. Maybe we can find out together?
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Thanks for the shoutout! We need as many people as possible to make videos about this issue and sound the horn, in hopes that the brands see our discontent and decide to back off. Restricting customers from posting photos/videos on personal social media is ridiculous and obviously the enforcement is extremely inconsistent on platforms like Instagram. Many people have told me this whole debacle has really zapped the fun out of Instagram, as we are all afraid to post and don't even know "what's allowed."
Thank you for watching 🥰 - actually I decided to return a Louis Vuitton bag that I just ordered a few days ago: I don’t see a point in financially supporting a brand, that doesn’t want me to be seen with their items/post them on my profile. The long run, they hurt themselves with that strategy!
@@LuMiLevelUp Honestly I don't even get why brands want to be so "exclusive"? Would make more sense from a business perspective to get larger market share and more sales volume? They can still charge premium (but not astronomical) prices and still make a healthy profit margin. Plus, I imagine with all the absurd price increases - LV and others have got to be losing business to higher tier f@kes.
Mary, your video couldn’t be more timely and relatable! Seeing my own Instagram account featured in your discussion really drives home the reality of this unexpected purge in the luxury community. It’s surreal and disheartening to witness firsthand how expressing our love for these brands can lead to such abrupt censorship. Your insights offer a much-needed perspective on the changing dynamics between luxury enthusiasts and the brands we admire. This is a wake-up call for all of us in the community to navigate these new challenges together.
I'm so sorry this happened to you Naomi! I don't know what's going on on Instagram at the moment and I hope so bad, that things will get back to normal, you will get your account back and all of as can post the way we used to 💔
I have noticed this happening too! They tried to take one of my posts down, all authentic, and I asked to review it and they put it back up. Tfs Mary great video 😊
I asked to get two of the posts reviewed aswell (the one with the black Chanel bag and the flatlay from the thumpnail). Didn’t request it on the Tiffany&Co+LV pic, cause I did not already know something fishy is going on (and thought it’s fair enough, LV doesn’t want anyone to talk bad about their quality - so why complain to IG 😅🙈)
The first request/complaint I sent nearly a week ago and still have no answer at all from IG. No idea, why it takes that long 😕 - and somehow the whole process was strange: first I had to fill out a form, then I was sent a code and then I had to answer an email, to confirm again it’s me and I sent in all the requested infos 🤨 - all that hassle, to not even get any answer for a week?! To maybe never get an answer?!😅
How long did it take in your case?
My post was LV as well and as soon as I posted it they took it down and then I had them review it and within an hour it was back up. I never filled out anything. That’s weird about yours sorry friend. 😢
You are right. They started deleting many of our posts. Eventually we were taken down
I hope things will get back to normal soon - but unfortunately I‘m not sure, if they ever will 😫
The same way social media made those brands it can also destroy them. I love your honesty 🩷🩷🩷
Thank you 🥰 I hope those brands will realize, they‘re not doing themselves a favor the long run!
@@LuMiLevelUpTime for the Beast system to go down and for everyone to be able to enjoy beautiful things without having to sell a kidney or a leg to get a damn bag lol. It’s ridiculous how expensive some of those luxury goods can cost 😭😭😭
That’s what happened to me on UA-cam. Where I have items that I purchased and apparently they don’t want me promoting them so I got flagged and my account was up for suspension. Luckily I got through it because I think they realize that this is something that the brands are doing, but it was enough to make me never put a hashtag in any of my videos again.
I think they’re getting people to the point where people are going to start boycotting these items. Like if you have your collection awesome but it’s just not worth it. The stress that they’re putting their loyal clients through is not worth it. These brands don’t deserve our money anymore because they’re not being good to their customers.
Hi, has enybody managed to get a banned IG account back?
I unfortunately don’t know anyone on IG, who got banned and successfully got the account back 😕
@GiveMeTheLook: thank you for sharing your experience! I agree, if these brands get us more trouble than joy, it’s not worth spending the money on them in the future - they might ruin themselves the long run
@@LuMiLevelUp well, I think that’s why they’re getting into hotels, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they come out with their own liquor line or something of that nature because they have to make money elsewhere. They want their exclusivity, but the cost of that exclusivity is a drop in income, which is why their quarterly sales have dropped across-the-board. so they’re aware of it but they’re OK with it because they want to continue that exclusivity. I think what we need to do is start supporting some of these other brands and then make those like the super popular brands for the fashionistas. I think Coach, Cole Haan, Tods and Dooney & Bourke are excellent brands to support.
I have had this happen a few times now. The first time, they reviewed and allowed the post. The second time, I bypassed the review and reposted the picture using a different description and tags. I’m sure it’s an automated process that’s scanning for certain key words. All I’m doing is posting pictures of bags I own - very annoying.
I wish we at least would know, what we‘re not allowed to do any more. How can we play by the rules, if we do not even know the rules?! 😫
Wow! This is really crazy! I’ve been wanting to make a new Instagram account, but I’ll wait! Next they’ll go after UA-cam.
I hope this won’t happen to UA-cam, cause if so: we‘re done 😅🙈 there’s no way of doing luxury UA-cam, without showing & mentioning luxury brands 💔 - well, guess then I‘ll finally stick to beeing mindful with my money 😂😭
Would love to see you back on IG: but yep, definitely not the best timing right now 🙁
@@LuMiLevelUp They will lose tons of free advertising if they keep going after us!!!
Wow, that's just nuts. I had heard that Chanel was doing it, but this is the first I've heard of LV doing it. This is one of my biggest complaints with ALL of these platforms, they get nasty about stuff but they don't do it consistently across the board as you point out towards the end of the video when you mentioned those selling fakes. And even in that area they aren't consistent either!
I was so surprised to realize LV is doing it now aswell. Don't these brands realize, that social media helped them a lot with sales? It's ridiculous how they treat their customers
IG is full of Chinese posting and selling counterfeit designer bags. Are these brands even going after those accounts?
Weirdly enough I still see those profiles openly selling their fake stuff on IG 🙄
I am starting to get really sick of these brands, what’s the point of spending our hard earned money on these lixury items when these brands failed to even be of decent morals. I am rethinking my luxury shopping habits
I‘m 💯 with you! Smaller brands show so much more appreciation for their customers - why do we keep letting these big luxury brands treat us so poorly?!
Ive never had a problem tagging chanel or prada but ive had issues with brands not posting me but others probably because they didnt want a guy wearing their stuff. 🤷🏻♂️
Be careful with it now, I think it‘s only been about 2 weeks, since IG went completely crazy 😭
@@LuMiLevelUp i command all luxury lovers to join hands in the world and demand posting rights, chanel price decrease 😂 or quality improvements for all bags! #standforthebags
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This is the first I've heard of this. So sorry that happened to you. Do they alert you when they remove a post?
Yes you do get a notification and you can appeal - but they never even reacted to me wanting a second check 🙄
This has been happening to me too 😭 but I post about skincare and Instagram have been removing/deleting my old posts. I also don't know when to post because I'm the same and 3 of mine have been flagged recently. I tried posting today and they removed it, then it was back up after an hour and I've just seen they removed it again 😢
What’s going on with Instagram?! 😫 This is so annoying - especially since we do not even know, which rules we‘re breaking to get our posts removed 😭
This happened to me a few days ago :( I had posted a pic of me in a chic cocktail bar showcasing my outfit including my Chanel bag. The brand was not tagged nor mentioned, my caption was a presentation of the bar and yet my post got deleted 🤡 that’s super annoying, especially as I’ve also had issues with their new robots “retrograding” content for silly reasons (my post about a hot chocolate was thought to be promoting illegal merchandise lol)
Thank you for sharing your experience! Wow, this is absolutely ridiculous - if we can not even wear, enjoy and take pictures with our items to post 🤯. Not sure, why we should even keep spending our hard earned money on them then!
Did IG update their community guidelines and terms of agreement? Hopefully so. You are right; you can't play by the rules if you don't know the rules.
I skimmed them and still couldn’t find anything forbidden I might be doing, justifing them to take my posts down. It‘s so confusing and sad 😕
Yup. Crazy. No rhyme or reason. Does mostly seem to be LV and Chanel causing problems. Booooooo at Instagram. 👎🏼😠
Great, LV, the brand I own the most 😂👌 - they know how to dig themselves a grave 🙈
Wow, I had no idea. Shameful. Glad I don't buy designer bags.
You're better off that way! These brands and companies are really playing us 😕
My next bag will be a very chic and stylish one, from a brand with good ethics and sustainability, made of nice apple "leather". Price around 270 Euro🙂
And I bet they will be proud and happy, if you would take a picture and tag them on Instagram! The way it should be! Congratulations on your new bag 💕
Wäre das nicht ein Grund, diese besagten brands (btw gehören zur LVMH Gruppe ja sogar ein paar mehr Brands) für die Zukunft konsequent zu boykottieren?
Absolut! Ich hatte mir zum Valentinstag eine LV Tasche bestellt - und mich nach meinen Erfahrungen mit Instagram dazu entschieden, die Tasche zurück zu schicken. Secondhand möchte ich aber noch nicht ganz aufgeben🙈, daran verdienen die Marken ja nicht mehr direkt mit 🙈
Hasn’t happened to me (yet). 🤷♀ Perhaps account not big enough, or not posting any problematic brands. I’ll keep going as I do and I’ll see if/when something gets flagged. I think it’s unlikely Instagram is going to tell us what’s up, benefits of having our community just might not outweigh the risks for them, we’ll have to see how far this goes.
From the comments on this video, I think the main problem might be Chanel (possibly even with image-AI logo detection - and LV might mainly be problematic, when it’s used in the hashtags and text 🤔). Uuuh I really would wish, we would at least know the rules, we should play by!
I haven’t had this issue yet.. but I have not been posting consistently for a few months 😅 I might sit back and watch what happens 😅😅
I was just in the process of taking Instagram more serious 😫 (part of justifying the bag-renting to me was IG aswell) - now I‘m super demotivated and have no idea, what I‘m even allowed to post 😫
@@LuMiLevelUp oh, that’s unfortunate😔
Well at least there's something good in me not being that active in Instagram: I haven't faced this problem yet :DD but in all seriouslesness, people sharing their luxury bags is free advertisement to the brands; it's hard to understand why it bothers them so much that people want to share their valued items?
Actually lucky timing to be not that active on Instagram 😅! Cause it‘s sooooo super frustrating (especially since we do not even know, what the new rules are, we have to play by now)…. Guess we‘re just „not good enough“, not even for free advertising for these luxury brands 🙄
Makes me want to show items in the garbage can😅😂😅😂
😂👌🙈 a pic like that, definitely would get removed 😂
I’ve had similar issues and I can’t work out the pattern they are all different like yours tagged and not tagged, outfits and flatlays… who knows!
I wish we at least knew the new rules, so we could play by them 😫.
Did you already discover any problems with Fendi posts aswell? Or has it been mainly Chanel & LV content for you aswell?
@@LuMiLevelUp Fendi too!
Brave new world… Of course, we all want cheaters and other unacceptable content to be deleted. However, this is scary…
This definitely is the wrong way of trying to make Instagram a better place 😢
I seen your story on instagram and was wondering the draaaaaaama
I‘m so annoyed by IG right now 😭
Regular people are the aspirational people. They are targeting you.
They do target us, but we’re not good enough to them, to inspire others 🤪
Could it be because there are a lot of (spam) accounts selling fakes, that this is their system for detecting that? Which clearly isn't working as you mentioned
Thats what it seems like because a lot of the accounts I follow that sell authetic bags are having their accounts deleted or blocked even if they have a check mark or thousands of followers.
I guess these scammers are a big part of the reason, why Instagram needed to change something (and I absolutely agree: something had to change - all these easy accessible fakes ruin the brand reputations). But this censorship, blocking and deleting of nearly everything thats luxury related, can’t be it 😕. Hope they come up with a better solution 🙏🏻
It must be terrible, if an Instagram profile is part of an (honest&authentic) resell business and the account suddenly gets shut down.
So glad it‘s just part of a hobby for me - so what’s happening right now is super annoying, but luckily not affecting my income 🙏🏻. Hope the honest IG luxury businesses will get their accounts back!
My IG is nothing but LV and that’s never happened to me. I wonder if the distinction of “digital creator” on your IG indicates yours is a “business” and that is the reason why this is happening to you?
Uuuuh, that's a very interesting theory - maybe I should try, if I can remove that "digital creator" from my profile. Thank you for sharing your thoughts! Do you own Chanel items aswell and have any experience with posting them on your IG?
@@LuMiLevelUp No I don’t have any Chanel, all I post is LV. I use LV hashtags on all my posts and it’s never happened to me. I just don’t have digital creator or video creator as part of my bio. I actually got invited to the LV Circle, the official LV visual media DM group a few months ago, so I don’t think it’s the hashtags you are using 🤷🏽♀️
They want to remain exclusive for the elite even though their main target is the middle class. This is ridiculous. I’m glad I’m a vintage lover 🙃. No class issues.
You 💯 nailed it! And I absolutely agree: it’s ridiculous 😭😂
Hi, Mary! You tell yourself several times in this video that you don't know the reason why some of your pictures have been deleted recently. Why don't you simply ask IG? I (or should I say WE?) would prefer facts from IG than assumptions. That would help the luxury community. Thank you for sharing the answer of IG on this topic. Have a nice weekend!!!
I would love to directly get facts from IG on this topic - unfortunately I don’t think, I could even get hold of any person at IG to get answers to my questions - my account is so small and they usually just offer a kind of support, if you have a certain reach on the platform and/or connections.
I sent complaints and asked for a review on two of my posts, that got deleted. One of my requests was over a week ago - and still no response at all from IG.
Wanted to get my frustration out and see, if anyone already has more information 😁
I can try to send an E-Mail and share, if I get anything back in response. If so, I‘ll definitely keep everyone updated 💕
Try to make a new backup IG with a new account and see what happens. Thats what I recommend. Yes, I see fakes even on UA-cam and plenty on IG. So many fake sellers trying to PM me.😆🤣😂
@@Michele_in_color I do consider to do so, just to be safe and have a backuo - cause I don’t want to start over from 0 again 😢
Unless someone is reporting specific posts on different accounts to IG?
It seems to automatically happen through AI, not individual people reporting 😫
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I heard only their pics can be posted which are on their website ,not your own .At least for Chanel 😮
Oh that’s interesting (but stupid aswell! Why should people keep buying their items, if we then have to be scared wearing them, taking pictures and posting?!). I hope they‘ll change their mind on this new approach!
Try to delete that IG and start a new one maybe the algorithm will leave you alone
I might have to do so 😫
@@LuMiLevelUp 😭😭😭 I am sorry that you had to deal with all that, hopefully it gets sorted out soon, you have an amazing channel those stupid brands should have you on their side not the other way around 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️, I am speechless honestly
Also only post praises to the brand 🤬😡🤬
Hahaha, not sure if that would help, if they think I‘m not „good enough“ to be seen with their products overall 😁
Almost everything I post gets taken down, then I click for them to look again and they put it right back up within a few minutes. I dont tag the brands but often # them...I generally only "tag" other creators I collab with or other brands I have partnered with or done a video for...❤
I did request all the posts to get reviewed aswell - but nothing happend in days. Now my Friday post is finally visible on my profile again, but still says „in examination“, when I check my „violations“. I‘m so worried, IG might shut down my profile without a warning, if they keep having problems with my posts 😫
That’s a lovely pic of you by the water
Thank you 🥰 wish I could share it on my Instagram - well, maybe one day…
Redeluxe was disabled for the second time 😭😭😭
This is terrible 😭 why does Instagram ruin honest businesses?!
Bis jetzt ist es mir noch nicht passiert und ich poste nach wie vor Fotos mit meinen Taschen, sehr komisch
Glück gehabt würde ich sagen 😁 ich denke, wenn man einmal auf dem Radar landet, hat man es von da an schwerer. Die größten Probleme scheint wohl Chanel zu machen, dicht gefolgt von LV. Benutzt du hashtags?
@@LuMiLevelUp ja benutze immer hashtags für meine ganzen Taschen. Mein erster Account mit über 15 k follower wurde vor 2 Jahren plötzlich gelöscht. Habe seit dem einen anderen Account und wahrscheinlich noch unter den Radar 😉
People easy, mir kommt nur eins gerade in den Sinn...Hochmut kommt vor dem Fall.
Die Zeiten haben sich geänder. Die weltweite Community wird sich nicht so behandeln lassen. Wir sind viele!
Ich habe viel Kritik über Qualität und Preise bei Chanel in der letzten Zeit gesehen. Das kann die Antwort darauf sein. Sinnvoll? Sicher nicht. Was LV damit treibt, weiss ich nicht. Vlt hat es mit der veralteten LVMH Konzernstrategie zu tun... an Arroganz ist es nicht zu überbieten. Ich schätze Deine Videos sehr. Danke.
I don’t have an Instagram account…too “emotional” postings and quite a lot of instant glory.😅 I just hazard a guess, your “scam” video may have alerted the branding teams to prevent any further “ discriminatory “ videos. I don’t think it’s about you or anyone but rather about the branding strategies. While I appreciate content creators for their efforts and time, some may be too subjective for the marketing teams of the brands. 😂 I have many luxury items and would share but am mindful about public sharing. Creators may tend to share too many subjective views and some viewers may not have the discernment to understand that it’s the creator personal opinion. By the way, I am an average wage earner without model looks and buy luxury because I want to😊 if the quality or price does not work for me, I don’t buy. It’s not the brand problem.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Unfortunately my posts got already deleted, before I spoke up about VC in the Scam video... but maybe brands in general are not to happy about people that do commentary videos in any shape, kind or form.
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My luxury photos haven’t been taken down and I have hashtags with the brands. I think you’re targeted for some reason.
I think, if one got on the radar once, it‘s very hard to get off of it again. But no idea, what I might have done wrong 😫
...maybe you should come to the conclusion that those brands are not worth your money... I bet you are paying more for the brand than for the quality anyway, so maybe you should look for less known brands that have better quality...
I‘m definitely on my way to that realisation! Why pay that much money for a brandname, if these brands to not even consider me as „good enough“ to be seen with these itemd 😅
The most pathetic brands with low quality and high prices is Chanel and LV
Exactly the two that make the post trouble on IG 🙈
Try replacing the a in ch@nel with an @
Uuuh, that’s a good idea. Do you think they use image-AI aswell, to detect the logo on pictures? 🤔
I don't know 😢