Im a 16 year old kid that Instagram falsely banned for CSE and my mental health is ruined.
Allr guys so basically on May 7th 2026, my Instagram account, WHICH BTW is the only way I actually even get to text my friends, or call them or anything because my parents take my phone past 9PM for some reason was banned. Meta reported it as CSE. Dude, im a minor. I have never even posted anything. Im acc more worried of posting myself so how do you expect me of all people to have CSE??
In fact the account that they originally banned for CSE was the newly created one where after like 4 hours of consulting with friends I actually put a photo of myself as the profile picture. And they banned it. Now i cant even communicate with anybody. And they banned the other account linked to the same email except for, "Community Standards on account integrity." WHICH IS COMPLETELY STUPID. BANNED IT AT THE EXACT SAME MINUTE TOO 😭
No but seriously, I have no way of texting my friends past a certain time. I have never done anything wrong. Never texted wrong, never posted anything, never reposted or followed any accounts that atleast to my knowledge would have even been close to posting this type of content. I never even harmed anybody. Yet that night I got sent an email midnight basically that both my accounts were banned, accusing me of like one of the worst things possible.
Instagram didn’t even give me a proper chance to explain. The minute I appealed, just and im not even kidding 16 minutes later it got immedieatly banned. Like permanently disabled. I have full emails and everything. I even submitted my highschool, and when I tried to appeal my other account by submitting my highschool ID conntaining my photo and name (ik its missing my birthday) it got rejected but I cant say im not surprised.
I then started talking to Google AI. Ik.... But i was stressing and I still am. Im on H4 visa here in this country. I dont wanna get deported or have immigration think im some sort of disgusting kid. Like what?? I love this country bro 😭
But yeah im going to try and get a CA ID but I doubt that will help. I filled out their Data Rights Request. I wrote a full emotional thing l through their privacy contact form — explaining who I am, how this might affect me, how this is worrying me, and all they said was sorry cannot help. ???????
To make things worse, even the CA Attorney General cant help. I filled out a form same night, or bascially the next day but still night cuz it was past midnight, and then called them today as well only to be rejected.
This ban has completely destroyed me. My Instagram was quite legit my only methods of communication. School is about to be over soon, im supposed to be moving 8 hours away to a whole different city in norcal, and I wake up everyday hoping and praying I get some sort of reply back. I cant focus, cant sleep, and atp after going through so many sub reddits and posts im actually starting to get pissed and more worried. Like what if this affects my immigration status?? AND WHY DOES INSTA NOT DO BETTER? U MAKE SM MONEY FOR DEAR LORD
But uhh, to try and end this calmly I genuinely did nothing wrong. If someone from Insta is reading this or you guys know someone please contact me, I just want my account back. I just want a real human to clear my name and look into my account. Please, if anyone has been through this — or knows a way to reach Meta — help me. I’m tired and worried.
And one last thing, they even banned my other account which wasnt tied to the first 2 with the same email or password which im only adding on here so my story is coherent incase a member of Meta looks at this. Please help yall. Im not tryna get my life ruined, like seriously.