Author: ChandlerZ, Foresight News

On June 12, X (formerly Twitter) experienced a large-scale account suspension event, affecting numerous KOLs and official project accounts in the crypto space. This action has drawn widespread attention from the community, with many active accounts in both the Chinese and English circles being impacted, including the official GMGN account and its founder, Sha Po Lang, Wang Xiao Er, Wizard, and the ElizaOS team.

Many users initially believed the incident was only targeting GMGN. Currently, suspended accounts are gradually filing appeals, but the platform has yet to provide a clear explanation, and community discussions are still ongoing.

Concentrated Account Suspensions, Not Just GMGN System

GMGN co-founder Haze responded today via Telegram, stating that they have not yet received an official explanation for the account suspensions. The team is communicating with the X platform to appeal and strive for a quick account recovery. This incident is not the first occurrence of platform cleanup actions, but its suddenness and lack of clear reasons have raised doubts among many KOLs regarding the platform's content regulation mechanisms.

Among the suspended accounts, several well-known names in the Chinese community include:

• GMGN official account @gmgnai and founder Ji Ge @haze0x
• Sha Po Lang @Wolfy_XBT
• Wang Xiao Er @brc20niubi
• Wizard @0xCryptoWizard
• Gake @Ga__ke

At the same time, similar situations have arisen in the English community. The official account of the meme project ElizaOS @elizaOS and its founder @shawmakesmagic were frozen yesterday, and some accounts associated with the TRUMP wallet were temporarily suspended before being restored.

Although GMGN was the first to be noticed, the affected accounts are not limited to a single project system. KOL Kuai Dong (@_FORAB) noted that, based on account behavior, these KOLs generally share several common characteristics:

• Most have recently been active in AI Agent and meme-related topics
• Frequently mentioned or interacted with keywords like ai16z and ElizaOS
• Have interaction records with GMGN team members or topics
• Some accounts have seen a recent surge in followers, with a high density of content posting, suspected of being identified by the system as manipulative dissemination

This indicates that the platform's account suspension actions are more likely based on behavioral pattern recognition rather than targeting specific teams or users in a particular language region.

Speculations and Misunderstandings in the Evolving Public Opinion: Panic, Business Warfare, and Even "Being Taken Down"

This incident quickly triggered panic in the Chinese community. Some even claimed in Telegram and WeChat groups that "the project team was taken down in Shenzhen" and attributed the event to some form of offline law enforcement action.

However, logically, such claims are fundamentally unfounded. As a U.S. company, X's risk control mechanisms rely on the platform's own content algorithms and signal models, with no direct information channel to local law enforcement agencies in China. The account suspensions are essentially actions taken by the platform itself, rather than external interference. There are also speculations that this is a business warfare tactic initiated by competitors, triggering X's risk control mechanisms through concentrated reporting to achieve competitive goals. This claim has yet to be verified. There is even a circulating belief that this incident is related to a political meme hinting at "Trump and Musk," as some suspended accounts had posted or shared this image.

This claim seems to have a certain logical chain, but upon closer inspection, it becomes evident that a significant portion of the suspended accounts did not post that meme, and many smaller accounts that had posted similar content but had lower activity levels were mostly unaffected, while numerous accounts sharing political memes were not impacted. This suggests that attributing the account suspensions to a single image or specific content is clearly insufficient. The more likely scenario is that the meme coincidentally appeared among a batch of accounts that the system was monitoring, but it was not the primary cause.

In fact, similar situations occurred during the previous NFT boom. In 2021, many well-known cryptocurrency analysts, traders, and KOLs with hundreds of thousands or even millions of followers had their accounts suddenly suspended without any prior warning, including PlanB (@100trillionUSD), Willy Woo (@woonomic), @TheCryptoDog, @woj.eth, among others. Some of these accounts were permanently banned, but many were restored after generating significant community response.

What to Do If Your Account Is Suspended?

Based on Kuai Dong's experience, there have been similar situations in the past where many institutional and media accounts were suspended simultaneously but were subsequently restored, so here are some shared experiences from that time.

Path One: Appeal. Directly initiate an appeal, explaining that due to being in mainland China, accessing Twitter often requires a VPN, and with multiple colleagues managing the account, the IP changes frequently. Make multiple appeals to clarify the situation.

Path Two: Contact a Regional Manager. In some countries and regions, such as the U.S. and Japan, where Twitter has a high market share, there are usually dedicated business and advertising managers. According to friends who have gone through this channel, they can help identify the reasons and expedite the appeal process, but this channel is only applicable to corporate accounts, not personal ones. In regions without dedicated personnel, there are usually local 4A advertising agencies that act as agents for Twitter, and they can also help clients make contact.

Path Three: Wait for Natural Recovery. Some accounts, like the previous media PANews, went through the above paths multiple times without success, and then miraculously got unbanned a year later.

There are countless examples of this, typically taking between 3 months to 1 year, but during this period, creating new accounts may also lead to further suspensions.

How Content Creators Can Protect Themselves

In the absence of an official explanation, how can creators and project teams protect themselves? Currently, some practical avoidance suggestions are circulating within the industry:

• Avoid repeatedly posting contract addresses and transaction links in a short period

Especially for newly launched projects, unaudited contracts, and highly speculative meme assets, which are prone to trigger risk control systems.

• Do not flood the platform with content that closely overlaps with trending tags

For example, continuously posting about "AI Agent," "CA," "airdrop," "meme season," and other keywords may be identified as manipulative behavior.

• Reduce concentrated interactions with a single account or project

This includes concentrated retweeting, commenting, and liking a particular KOL's tweets. Such "group interaction" behaviors are considered high-risk under X's new algorithms.

For most content creators, the X platform remains one of the most important traffic battlegrounds. However, under the AI-driven content review mechanism, some previously viable "high-frequency posting" strategies have now become high-risk behaviors.

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