1. What the data shows
Account 1 (first graph): Healthy impressions around 30k–45k per day until May 10th, when impressions dropped by ~80–90% overnight and stayed low.
Account 2 (second graph): Growth until May 10–11, hitting a peak of around 7k daily impressions, then also dropped by ~80–90% and never recovered.
The timing difference is only about 24 hours apart.
2. Suspension event
One account was suspended exactly at the drop and reinstated 24 hours later.
After reinstatement, impressions did not return to normal — they stayed suppressed.
The other account (not suspended) had the same drop in traffic anyway.
3. Possible explanations
Algorithmic coincidence?
Natural drops tend to be gradual. Both accounts losing ~80% of traffic within 24 hours, almost simultaneously, is highly unlikely to be organic.
Content overlap & account connection
Since the two accounts had similar names and profile images and posted the same/similar content, Pinterest’s systems (or a manual reviewer) could easily have flagged them as “duplicate/backup accounts.” Platforms like Pinterest often dislike multiple accounts promoting the same content because it can be seen as manipulation. Having multiple accounts is allowed though. Pinterest is not specific about the similarity of two different accounts.
Manual intervention suspicion
The fact that:
- One account was suspended,
- The other lost reach within 24 hours,
- Both stayed suppressed permanently, strongly suggests manual review/limitation was applied.
- Backup account unaffected? The third account, which was not “visually/identity-linked” (different name and profile image), did not suffer the same suppression, which strengthens the idea that Pinterest specifically connected and limited the first two.
4. Why support was unhelpful
Pinterest support often sends canned responses unless you escalate through the right channel. Shadow limitations (if applied manually) are rarely acknowledged, because admitting it would cause backlash.
5. Conclusion
Suspicion is reasonable:
Both accounts appear to have been manually limited after a trust/safety review triggered by the suspension of the first.
This is not a natural impression drop — the pattern is too abrupt, too synchronized, and too permanent.
Methods Pinterest use to shadow ban us:
- Account limitation in exposure as seen above
- They close the comment field so visitors can’t comment.
- They shadow ban entire boards – If one pin on the board is shadow banned, the entire board gets blocked by a black curtain and a message saying: This board may contain sensitive content. Click on it and you will get it again and you need to click View anyway. This limitation can NOT be seen from your own account. You need to have a second account to experience what other users see!
- The AI will take your pins down with a stupid claim about Adult content, spam, hateful activities or what ever generic reason their stone age AI can come up with.
- They shadow ban/limit your pin in some feeds and not others.
- Pins and boards can be entirely or partly removed from people’s search
- They can block your domain if their ‘brilliant’ AI believes it is a spam site. You will get this message: Sorry! We blocked this link because it may lead to spam. It is VERY hard to guess what Pinterest’s AI believe is spam.
- If you ask too deep questions on the Pinterest forum you WILL get suspended for conspiracy theories.
- They will remove your pin and present you with a blurry miniature you can’t recognize. Or they won’t inform you at all.
- You can get banned or punished by reposting other users’ pins. Pinterest doesn’t care. You posted it. You are guilty!
They WILL NOT inform you of any of these ‘violations’ The only one you will notice is occasionally pins wrongly taken down in your report centre. Pinterest is MASSIVELY violating the EU-DSA and
Pinterest stats are close to fraud.
- Our tests shows that only 1/4 of ‘outbound’ clicks ever hits your website.
- Their numbers are grossly inflated in order to attract advertisers. Trust Google Analytics! Not Pinterest!
- Single pins can mysteriously show one hundred thousand views over a 30 day period while the total stats only shows twenty thousand for the exact same period.