As promised, I would share more about the more vulnerable details of my art and the realities of running a business for it.
The internet is consistently a wild place, for the good and bad. In this case, it is unfortunately presenting me with challenges outside of my control.
To get right to it, Instagram is making it nearly impossible for me to share information about my shop and the new products I’m creating for you. For the first time, my images that include those specific details are being flagged as ‘Content Monetization Violations.’
If I mention the Wright Kitchen shop and/or products, the number of people my posts are shown to drops dramatically. This has been slowly worsening over the past few years and has heavily affected my small business as I rely on Instagram as a primary resource for income. I’ve heard this same story repeated from many small businesses and artists and it’s terrible.
I reached a wall three days ago when I mentioned starting a TikTok on an Instagram story. Wi…