![]() Banning pole dance related hashtags makes it really hard for small businesses in the industry to function, and it makes it difficult for our pole dance community to interact. Pole dance is skilful, artistic, entertaining, it can be fitness-based, it can be performance-based and yes it can be sexy but it does NOT violate terms of use or community standards. There is nothing profane or pornographic about what we do. We use this naming system so we can find pole skills to learn from each other and to train. ![]() Hey - we pole dancers of the world are really disappointed to see that all pole dance related hashtags are now banned hashtags, and that even hashtags that use “pd” at the start like pddeadlift or pdayesha have also been banned. The instructor and kinesiologist listed nearly 20 hashtags she personally noticed had been associated with hidden posts, many of which continue to be hidden.īlanchard told CTVNews.ca over Facebook Messenger that she has been “inundated with emails and other messages about this IG ban.” Popular instagrammers such as United Pole Artists and Pole Dance Nation have similarly called out Instagram for hiding dancers’ posts. ![]() “The sad part is that these are many of our most popular hashtags and an integral part of OUR community!” Blanchard wrote on Facebook. Oke and Swain first became aware of the so-called pole-dancing “cleanse” after seeing pole dancing blog “Blogger On Pole” and popular dancer Elizabeth Blanchard from California calling it out on Facebook. NEARLY 18,000 PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE WORLD PETITIONED Pole dancers often abbreviate their activity to "pd" for use in hashtags, with the likes of #pddeadlift and #pdayesha being used to reference specific poses.Ĭanadian pole instructor Kelly Swain, who uses the hashtag system to connect to others, said she found it disheartening “to have that all taken away from me because we wear shorts and a sports bra? (and) we dance on a vertical pole?”. “I want people to see pole as something that is making women (or men) feel appreciative of their body.” “Pole dancing isn’t hurting anyone,” she told CTVNews.ca in a phone interview. feels her sport “will always be misunderstood and there will always be people who refuse to have an open mind about it.” Nicole Oke, a pole dancer and tech worker in London, Ont. Searches of several hashtags on Sunday led to pages saying recent posts are “hidden because the community has reported some content that may not meet Instagram’s community guidelines.” "We apologize for the mistake,” the spokesperson said, adding that it was “never our intention to silence members of the community.” Nonetheless, the social media giant is still hiding some posts that use the hashtags in question. Searching affected hashtags brought up a notification that some posts were being hidden because they did not meet the platform's community guidelines, although a spokesperson for Instagram parent company Facebook told CTVNews.ca by email that the posts from pole dancers “did not violate our policies.” “This form of ‘self-censoring’ has been plaguing strippers and sex workers long before they started purging pole fitness tags,” she wrote to CTVNews.ca via Instagram direct message. ![]() These included a handful of posts in which she was demonstrating poses. Lori Glaza, a former licensed veterinary technician in Michigan who is pursuing pole dance instructing, had her posts hidden by Instagram. It is believed that hundreds, or potentially thousands, of posts were affected.īecause those in the online pole community use the hashtags to connect with and learn new techniques from each other, dancers are calling Instagram's actions a “purge” targeted towards them. Instagram is apologizing to pole dancers for hiding posts containing some of the artform's most-used hashtags.įor most of July, posts containing dozens of popular hashtags including #poledancing, #poletrick and #polefitness were hidden from the site’s Explore and Hashtag sections, which both aggregate and display all users’ posts. ![]()
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