Why are my Instagram posts not getting much likes?

[Anonymous]

I’m not an influencer or anything, and my account is private. But I’ve been posting as I usually do and I realised that my posts have been getting much fewer likes. The same thing has been happening to a few of my friends. I’m not to obsess over likes lol, and I don’t mind if people just scroll past. But I was wondering if the algorithm has been messed up and If people aren’t seeing my posts at all now? I experimented by posting during different times, and the results have been the same less likes and engagement.

Do I have to “cleanse” my account or something? And has this been happening to anyone else?

[desidoll]

No, and you are right about the algorithm. Ig is getting worse now. They only show your post to 10% of your followers so if you have like 2,000 followers, only around 200 of them see the post, then approximately half of these people might hit the likes button (if your post is interesting enough for them) I have read that another reason is ig has becoming more of a profit based social media. Majority of the influencers subscribe to auto like system. Even users with good amount of followers buy likes or fake engagement to boost their account. So it makes the real users invisible there.

[Asker]

Oh wow! Thanks for the explanation. I suspected it was something like this but didn’t know it was this bad. I’ve also really heard about people paying a subscription to be verified, but had no idea other accounts would be negatively impacted this way.

[Malwi93]

lol what? source of that infp?

[Asker]

There’s apparently a subscription to pay for “Meta Verified”, I’m not sure if it’s available in all countries as yet though. I also think there’s a waitlist if an account would like to join.

https://help.instagram.com/738055111270671

https://help.instagram.com/732454618598400

[FreyaRed]

Lot of hot pics and public account will surely increase your search engine ranking and will slightly increase your likes. However no matter how good your pics are and how interesting are your stories, you will never get ton of likes like some promoted models and people who make advertising, because their manager buy likes for them. Selling likes from bots is one of business models of social media.

I think with further development of AI that can chat like a human and generate credible looking pictures, social media will become a joke of patronate scam and deception.

[Danny_dan92]

Men are beginning to see more and more women having secret relationships. Thus, we have slowly began to disengage. I’m one of those men, the second I find out a girl is taken I stop giving her compliments and acknowledgment. Because I dated a girl that continued to post validation seeking posts even while in a relationship. So I know what it feels like dating a girl that has the mindset of posting such things is “ok”

[petitedollbabee]

The same has been happening to me on Instagram, but I had just assumed that people were less interested in what I posted these days.

[Asker]

I’ve spoken to a few friends and the same is happening to them. It really does seem to be the changes in the algorithm :(