april:

no, seriously, you are not shadowbanned

if you were shadowbanned you wouldn’t be able to tell that your posts weren’t showing up in tags/searches for everyone else because a “shadowban” specifically refers to a state in which you can’t see that you are being removed from everyone else’s searches & feeds.

either the post was filtered from searches by a robot or your blog isn’t indexed. a search ban is not a shadowban. having “hide [blog] from search results” enabled in your blog settings is not a shadowban. not even being marked as spam is a shadowban.

tumblr has no mechanism for fooling you that everything is normal when it’s not, it just doesn’t tell you why your post isn’t searchable.