All You Need To Know About TikTok Banned Accounts

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TikTok Banned Account—How To Get Your Profile Back

TikTok is an online platform where you can have loads of fun while expressing your creativity. That is why getting banned from this network feels lousy—even more so if you feel like you haven't done anything wrong.

If you think TikTok may have wronged you by suspending your account, we are here to help you. In this guide, you will find out why TikTok might have banned your account, what its community guidelines are, and how to write a demand letter to appeal its decision.

If you are worried about writing the demand letter correctly, do not stress about it. and learn how to do it in a couple of clicks.

What Are the Reasons for Getting Banned From Tik Tok?

The reasons for having your TikTok account banned are numerous, and they are usually related to a violation of TikTok community guidelines. The most common reasons for TikTok account bans are:

  1. Illegal activities
  2. Hateful behavior
  3. Violent extremism
  4. Graphic content
  5. Dangerous acts, self-harm, and suicide
  6. Harassment and bullying of other users
  7. Exploitation of minors
  8. Nudity and sexually inappropriate behavior
  9. Integrity and authenticity violations

Illegal Activities

TikTok doesn’t allow the promotion of illegal activities, such as:

Type of Illegal ActivityThings You Shouldn't Post
Criminal acts
  • Physical harm of others—kidnapping or assault
  • Human exploitation—human smuggling, domestic servitude, prostitution, sex trafficking, and bonded labor
  • Safety risks of others
  • Sale and purchase of illegal goods
  • Illegal trade of wildlife
  • Instructions on how to commit a crime
Frauds and scams
  • Promotion of schemes of investment with high return
  • Fixed betting
  • Ponzi schemes and multi-level marketing
  • Phishing
WeaponsTrade, promotion, or depiction of:
  • Explosive weapons
  • Firearms and firearm accessories
  • Ammunition
GamblingPromotion of:
  • Sports betting
  • Casinos
  • Any other gambling activity
Tobacco, alcohol, and drugs
  • Drug consumption
  • Promotion, trade, misuse, production, or solicitation of drugs, illicit alcohol, and tobacco
  • Information on where and how to buy illegal substances
Privacy and personal dataViolation of confidentiality of personally identifiable information or data

Hateful Behavior

Discrimination of any sort will result in TikTok account suspension. This app will not allow content that attacks or threatens other individuals or groups based on:

  • Race
  • Ethnicity
  • Immigration status
  • National origin
  • Religion
  • Caste
  • Sexual orientation
  • Gender
  • Gender identity
  • Disability
  • Serious disease

TikTok also bans profiles with slurs, promotion of hateful ideology, and conspiracy theories that justify them.

Violent Extremism

Any type of violence and promotion of dangerous groups or individuals will result in a TikTok account suspension. To avoid this, your profile should not:

  • Encourage other people to commit violence
  • Depict or support dangerous individuals or terrorist and criminal organizations

Graphic Content

TikTok will not allow any type of content that includes:

  • Depiction of violent deaths, accidents, injuries, physical violence, or torture
  • Depiction of unnatural death of animals, animal cruelty, and gore

Dangerous Acts, Self-Harm, and Suicide

Acts of self-harm or other dangerous acts are prohibited on TikTok, and the users are not allowed to post, share, upload, or stream:

  • Suicide glorification, games or dares that lead to suicide, or suicide instructions
  • Eating disorders, games, dares, and glorification of self-harm and eating disorders, as well as instructions on how to engage in such activities
  • Usage of dangerous tools, objects, or vehicles
  • Dangerous games or stunts

Harassment and Bullying of Others

Harassment and bullying on TikTok also come with serious consequences. TikTok doesn’t tolerate:

  • Degrading statements, humiliations, embarrassment, or intimidation of an individual
  • Sexual harassment
  • Doxxing, threats of hacking, and blackmail

Exploitation of Minors

The exploitation of minors is a pretty serious issue and a sensitive subject, and it should be prevented in any way possible. TikTok does that by prohibiting:

  • Sexual exploitation of minors in any form
  • Grooming behavior—Flattering the minor, requesting contact off and on the platform, asking for personal information, and making sexual solicitations or comments
  • Nudity
  • Harmful activities involving minors—Possession of alcohol, tobacco, or drugs, as well as encouraging dangerous physical challenges
  • Kidnaping, physical abuse, and neglect of minors

Nudity and Sexually Inappropriate Content

Whether it involves adults or minors, sexually inappropriate content and nudity go directly against the TikTok regulations. That includes abuse, sexual imagery, explicit language, and graphic depictions of sexual acts.

Integrity and Authenticity Violation

The most common reason for getting banned from TikTok is probably a violation of authenticity and integrity, such as:

Type of ViolationExplanation
Fake engagement and spam
  • Artificial increase of followers, likes, comments, shares, etc.
  • Manipulation of TikTok accounts to distribute commercial spam
Impersonation
  • Using someone else’s name, profile picture, and biographical data in a misleading manner
Misinformation
  • Incorrect information that incites prejudice and hate
  • Incorrect information about emergencies
  • Distorting the truth about specific events to cause harm to other person or organization—conducted by synthetic and manipulated media
  • Conspiratorial content
  • Misleading information about civic processes (elections, for instance)
Violation of intellectual propertyViolation of someone’s trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights—copying music, videos, and other original work without the permission of the author

What To Do if You Get Banned From TikTok

If you are looking for a way to unban your account, you can always file an appeal to reverse the original decision. In case your violation was a one-time incident, there is a good chance you will get your account back.

If you violate community guidelines repetitively, TikTok will ban your account and notify you about it. If you believe TikTok made a mistake and the ban was unjustified, here is what you can do:

  1. Find and open the notification
  2. Click on Appeal
  3. Follow further instructions TikTok provided

Use DoNotPay and File an Appeal to TikTok Without Breaking a Sweat!

Once you initiate the appealing process, you will probably have to write a demand letter to request that TikTok reverse its decision. If you’ve never done that before, DoNotPay is here to help!

You will not have to trouble yourself with forms because our app will draft the demand letter instead of you. All you need to do is:

  1. Locate the Unban My Account feature
  2. Answer some basic questions
  3. Click on Sign and Submit

After that, DoNotPay will generate the demand letter to appeal TikTok’s original decision. With this letter, we will make sure that the company takes your request seriously and processes it within the set deadline.

Other Platforms DoNotPay Can Help You With

Aside from TikTok, DoNotPay will support you while writing a demand letter to other companies as well. Our service covers these platforms and many more:

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