You pay $8 – $16 a month for “priority” and “boosted” visibility. What you actually bought is the privilege of being silently throttled the moment the algorithm decides you’re too coherent, too calm, or too White.
On November 25, 2025 someone was able to get an X insider to review her support ticket – and what they confessed explains EVERYTHING thousands of us have felt for years: X runs a hidden five-tier visibility system that decides – before your post even loads – who gets seen and who gets buried.
X employee gives me the REAL truth.
— Jessica Rojas 🇺🇸💪 (@catsscareme2021) November 25, 2025
I finally got an insider who reviewed my support ticket, and what they told me explains EVERYTHING we’ve all been experiencing.
Certain accounts (like ours) are being pushed into “Tier 1” and quietly buried.
Your posts never even reach your…
Key takeaways straight from the insider’s confession, as broken down:
- Tier 1: New accounts, instant high-engagement bait, or protected topics → maximum amplification
- Tier 2–3: Normal paid accounts (what you think you bought)
- Tier 4: “Sensitive” but not banned → severe throttling
- Tier 5: Instant shadowban → near-zero reach, even on paid boosts
Your blue check doesn’t move you up. It just keeps you out of Tier 5… until the system flags you anyway. Paid ads and subscription boosts are fed into the exact same queue. Thousands of dollars spent, six hundred impressions delivered. That’s not a glitch. That’s policy – designed to bury accounts that refuse to play the outrage game.
The replies under Jessica’s post are full of regular people like veterans, small businesses, moms, coaches -who all describe the same symptoms:
- follower counts frozen for months
- paid promotions that die at 300–800 views
- posts that never appear in followers’ feeds
- sudden 90–99% reach drops the moment a post gets reported
This isn’t happening only to “controversial” accounts. It’s happening to everyone who refuses to scream in emojis or beg for likes in the first three seconds.
How to fight back (until they fix it)
You shouldn’t have to do any of this. But here’s what actually works right now, pulled straight from the insider’s playbook:
- Five-account burst: Post the same content from five different accounts within 90 seconds. The algorithm reads it as organic interest.
- Blue-check every one of them: Premium still gives a small initial boost before the throttle kicks in.
- Seed engagement: Have 3–5 trusted accounts like/retweet immediately. Fake momentum = real momentum.
- Private lists: Put your real followers in lists. That’s the only reliable way they’ll still see you.
- Repost your own “dead” posts from burners. The second wave often breaks through.
- Never apologize, never delete. Every concession trains the algorithm you’re Tier 5 material.
This is theft dressed up as “content moderation.” They sold us visibility. They delivered invisibility.
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