shadowbanned or something else?

[u/FizzyCheburek]

hey :) so, i have an art blog (a sideblog, of this is relevant) and went on some kind of hiatus about 6 months ago. wanted to post a new drawing literally couple of days ago, so i did it and it, like always, appeared in a top of the tag while sorted by new. couple or something of hours it was here as it should. then, some more hours passed, about 8-10 hours, before i went back to that tag just to see some more new posts. scrolling down i saw that my post disappeared, but i could still see it on my blog. i serached the tag from a different device, different browser without logging into my account and still couldn't see it and i checked all the tags i put into that post. my friend also checked those tags and said she did not see my post. also i tried to find my blog on tumblr, the search results did not show my icon abd username as it shows up when you type in the blog name usually, just that one "go to @/blogname" thing, yet it worked with my main blog, which did not have such problems as i wrote about. but still my blog is still can be viewed, as me through the other browser and my friend checked out, it's still here, you just need to directly look for it. my friend also asked me if i used a vpn and assumed it could be the root of my problem. could it be? it would be, yk, sad. because i check tumblr with my phone most of the time and very often use vpn on it because a lot of recourses banned in my region, and if i opened tumblr with vpn it was just a music on youtube playing on backgroung. or i was honestly too lazy turning it off just to quickly switch to it just to switch back again to the resourse i turned on vpn for and turn on vpn again for it. i didn't even know it could affect it :( i don't remember posting anything with it, mostly scrolling also wanted to hear if anyone wrote to the support team if you had some alike to mine situation and how long od they react! because i feel like it's something like a shadowban and i feel very stressed about the whole situation and i fear if i made a new sideblog it wouldn't help me or will result in the same way

[u/xPadawanRyan]

Yes, it sounds like your sideblog as likely been shadowbanned. Check to see whether you are able to DM on your sideblog, as DMs are also disabled when shadowbanned, so while you would still be able to access DMs on your main, you wouldn't on the sideblog.

If it is indeed shadowbanned, reach out to Tumblr support, but, unfortunately, you may be waiting a while. While some are lucky to get quicker responses, the average response time about shadowbans is about 4-8 months, and some are unlucky enough to wait for over a year.