Shadow BannedNEW
Shadow Banned lyrics
A song about getting silenced by an algorithm that never explains why
Lyrics
I posted online every day
Just like I told you
Kept my name clean
Did the job for real
Same time, same feed
Same plain old name
Then the room went quiet
And I couldn’t say much
You don’t get a warning
You just feel the floor
Your little green numbers
Don’t move anymore
I checked the mirror
I checked the rules
Still I’m talking to a wall
Like a fool
You vanished from my page
You vanished from my page
I stayed in the feed all night
Still I’m nowhere to find
You vanished from my page
You vanished from my page
No one gave me a reason
Just cut my voice loose
I kept the replies polite
Kept right on schedule
No caps, no blowups
Just a neat straight line
Then my friends said
“Yo, where’d you disappear?”
I was right there yelling
At a door that stayed shut
No strike, no notice
Just a slow fade-out
Same little effort
But the crowd left now
And I kept refreshing
Like that would help
Talking to the empty
Version of myself
You ghosted my profile
You ghosted my profile
I was here the whole time
Still I’m out of sight
You ghosted my profile
You ghosted my profile
Nobody said why
Just took my voice away
Funny how quiet
Can feel like a crime
When you do everything right
And lose your line
I built that little home
Post by post by post
Now it’s a darkened window
With nobody close
You ghosted my profile
You ghosted my profile
I was here the whole time
Still I’m out of sight
You ghosted my profile
You ghosted my profile
If I broke your world
You could’ve told me why
You ghosted my profile
You ghosted my profile
I’m still posting truth
Even to the dark
Behind the Lyrics
I didn't get shadow banned. I watched it happen to a client, and it scared me more than if it had been my own account. When it's yours, at least you get to be angry. Their chart simply flattened. Same content, same schedule, the same audience they'd spent two years building. No strike email. No policy notice. No red banner saying "you broke a rule". Just silence, dressed up as an ordinary Tuesday's numbers. I've spent a career staring at dashboards, and nothing unsettles me more than a number that stops moving when I know I'll never get a straight answer about why. The genre chose itself. Mongolian throat singing exists because someone needed a voice that could cross a steppe with no wires and no amplifier, just breath engineered to travel. A shadow ban is the exact opposite. It doesn't touch the breath. It only makes sure the breath never lands anywhere. And I'm not innocent here. I've built strategies around the same algorithms that quietly erase people without a receipt. This one is for everyone who kept it clean, kept showing up, and got muted by a system that never once had to explain itself.
LSLachezar, writing songs so you don't have to cry alone
Production credits
- Song Idea
- Lachezar Simeonov
- Text
- Lachezar Simeonov
- Audio
- Lachezar Simeonov, AI-assisted production
- Voices
- AI personas built for Clicks & Swagger, some inspired by Lachezar's real voice
- Art
- Lachezar Simeonov, AI-assisted production
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