X platform bans encrypted accounts on a large scale, and many Chinese-language big Vs were attacked

Author: ChandlerZ, Foresight News

On June 12, X (formerly Twitter) suddenly experienced a large-scale account ban, affecting many KOLs and project official accounts in the encryption field. This action has attracted widespread attention from the community, and many active accounts have been affected in the Chinese and English circles, including GMGN official account and founder, Shapolang, Wang Xiaoer, Wizard, ElizaOS team, etc.

Many users initially thought that the incident was only targeted at GMGN. At present, the account blocked are being appealed one after another, but the platform has not yet given a clear explanation, and community discussions are still fermenting.

The banned account explodes in a concentrated manner, not just the GMGN

system

GMGN co-founder Haze responded through Telegram channel today that he has not received an official account ban explanation yet. The team is communicating with the X platform to try to restore the account as soon as possible. This incident is not the first time that a platform cleanup has occurred, but the sudden and no reason has been found, which has also caused many KOLs to have doubts about the platform's content supervision mechanism.

Among the accounts that were banned this time, there are many well-known names in the Chinese community, including:

• GMGN Official Account @gmgnai and Founder Ji Ge @haze0x
• Kill the Wolfy @Wolfy_XBT
• Wang Xiaoer@brc20niubi
• Wizard @0xCryptoWizard
• gake @Ga__ke

At the same time, similar situations have occurred in the English circle. The official account of Meme project ElizaOS, @elizaOS and founder @shawmakesmagic, were frozen yesterday, and some accounts associated with TRUMP wallets were also blocked and unblocked.

Although GMGN was first noticed, the affected accounts are not limited to one project system. KOL Kuai Dong (@_FORAB) said that from the perspective of account behavior, these KOLs generally have several common points:

• Most of them have been active in AI Agent and Meme related topics recently
• I have frequently mentioned or interacted with keywords such as ai16z and ElizaOS.
• There is a record of interaction with GMGN team members or topics
• Some accounts have seen a surge in fans recently, and the content release density is high, and it is suspected that the system has identified as manipulated communication.

This shows that the platform's account ban behavior is more likely to be based on batch recognition of behavior patterns rather than targeting users in a specific team or language area.

Speculations and misunderstandings in the fermentation of public opinion:

panic, business war, and even "being attacked"

The incident quickly triggered panic in the Chinese community. Some people even claimed in Telegram and WeChat groups that "the project party was taken down in Shenzhen" and attributed the incident to some offline law enforcement behavior.

However, logically speaking, this kind of statement is basically untenable. As a US company, X Platform's risk control mechanism relies on the platform's own content algorithms and signal models, and has no direct information channel with local Chinese law enforcement agencies. The ban on the account is essentially a platform's behavior, not caused by external intervention. Some people also speculate that this is a business war initiated by peers, which triggers the X platform risk control mechanism through centralized reporting, thereby achieving competitive goals. This statement cannot be confirmed for the time being. There is even a circulating belief that this incident is related to a political meme with the hint of "Trump and Musk's words", and some of the banned accounts have posted or reposted this picture.

This statement sounds like a certain logical chain, but after careful observation, you will find that a considerable number of the blocked accounts have not published the Meme, and have posted similar content but have low account activity, most of them have not been processed, while other accounts that share political memes have not been affected. It can be seen from this that attributing the ban to a single image or specific content is obviously insufficient in explanatory power. The greater possibility is that this Meme happens to appear among a group of accounts that are being followed by the system, but it is not the main reason.

In fact, similar situations were followed during the previous NFT peak. 2021 has also happened, with many of the well-known cryptocurrency analysts, traders and KOL accounts with hundreds of thousands or even millions of followers being suddenly suspended without any prior warning, including PlanB (@100trillionUSD), Willy Woo (@woonomic), @TheCryptoDog, @woj.eth, etc. Some of these accounts were permanently banned, but many were restored after the community caused a huge response.

What should I do if my account is blocked?

According to Kuai Dong's experience, there was a similar situation before. At that time, many institutions and media's accounts were blocked during the same period, but they were restored one after another, so I will share my experience at that time.

Path 1: Appeal. Directly initiate a complaint and inform him that because in the mainland, he often needs a ladder to access Twitter. In addition, many colleagues operate, so the IP changes frequently, so the appeals are explained clearly.

Path 2: Find a regional manager. Some countries and regions, such as the United States and Japan, are places where Twitter has a high local market share, and there are usually specialized business and advertising managers here. According to the disclosure of friends passing through this channel, they can help find out the reasons and speed up the approval of complaints, but this channel is only applicable to company accounts and not to individuals. In areas where there is no person in charge, there are usually local 4A advertising companies that help Twitter as agents, and they can also help customers contact.

Path 3: Wait for natural recovery. There are also some, such as the previous media PANews, who took the above path many times but failed, and then a year later, it was magically unblocked.

There are countless examples of this kind, usually ranging from 3 months to 1 year, but during this period, a small trumpet may also be created, and there may be cases where it continues to be blocked.

How to protect content creators

How should creators and project parties protect themselves without official instructions? At present, some practical avoidance suggestions are circulating in the industry:

• Avoid repeated posting of contract addresses and transaction links in the short term

Especially for newly issued projects, unaudited contracts, and Meme-type assets with strong hype attributes, they are likely to trigger the risk control system.

• Don't publish content that is highly consistent with hot tags in a screen-style manner

If you mention keywords such as "AI Agent", "CA", "airdrop", and "meme season" in succession, it may be recognized as manipulation behavior.

• Reduce centralized interaction with a single account and project

Including centralized forwarding, commenting, and like tweets from a KOL, this type of "group linkage" behavior is a high-risk model in X's new algorithm.

For most content creators, the X platform is still one of the most important traffic positions. However, under the AI-driven content review mechanism, some previously feasible "high-frequency delivery" strategies have now become high-risk behaviors.