How Instagram’s Copyright System Fails Art Curators: An 8+ -Year Account With 4,500+ Posts Deleted in 24 Hours
On January 27, 2025, Instagram deleted @watercolor.masters—an 8-year-old educational account that had helped thousands of watercolor artists gain exposure—without warning, without human review, and without acknowledging eight years of meticulous attribution practices across more than 4,500 hand-curated posts. This wasn’t a bot account scraping content for engagement. This was a working artist with 15 years […]