The Record · the registry bulletin
Weeks of August 10 and 17, 2026
Published August 17, 2026 · 5 items · RSS
Ledger
Twenty-one more creator accounts and pages have gone dark
Over the past two weeks we confirmed that twenty-one more accounts and pages no longer exist: YouTube channels, Snapchat accounts, a couple of personal websites. A real person re-checked every one of them the day it was recorded. None was anyone’s main account, and in every case there’s no explanation anywhere — the account is simply gone. Each creator’s page now shows the date it disappeared, and we keep watching in case it comes back. In total, 172 accounts and links across 151 creators’ pages are now marked as gone. One more thing, because honesty about our own limits is the whole point of this site: 37 Instagram accounts also looked dead these past two weeks, but Instagram was giving our checks bad information that same week — so we are not calling them gone yet. Wrongly announcing that a real woman’s account died is the one mistake we refuse to make. We’ll know for sure after the next check.
The vanished ledger →
Registry
When an account comes back, we now say that too
Creators get banned and reinstated all the time — that’s life on these platforms. Until this week, our pages recorded when an account disappeared but went quiet when it returned, which told only half the story. Fixed: from now on, a page will say “this account was gone for two months and came back on this date.” And before we re-link a returned account, we check it’s actually still the same person — because a familiar username coming back online is sometimes someone new wearing it. The first page with a full comeback story is already live: an account deleted twice, restored twice, with dates. While writing it we also found we’d gotten a year wrong in our earlier version — the page now says so, plainly. When we’re wrong, the correction goes on the page, not down a memory hole.
See a comeback story on a live page → · The vanished ledger →
Advisory
A vanished creator’s old link page is now someone else’s storefront
One real creator we cover lost all of her accounts earlier this summer, and at least one of her old usernames is now controlled by someone else. This week, a link page that carries her name — one she never confirmed was hers — renamed itself into a storefront and now points to a paid subscription page under a username that’s almost hers, but not quite. One letter off. That’s the oldest trick in this economy. Her page here now says it in plain words: do not pay for anything you reached through that link page. If you want to support any creator, get there from an account you know is really hers — never from a name that merely looks right.
Her page, with the warning → · Scam patterns we track →
Money
Where the money links moved these two weeks
Creators moved their paid links around more this cycle than in any week since we started keeping track — 82 changes in all. New subscription pages appeared, old ones were taken down, one sexting platform suddenly showed up on several unrelated creators’ pages at once, and one creator is selling a link whose destination you literally cannot see until you’ve paid. We note all of it on the pages, with dates. What we never do is link directly to a paid page for a creator who hasn’t claimed her page and proven it’s hers — because fake pay links are the single most common way fans get robbed in this world. The name of the platform, yes. The clickable link, only after she’s verified.
How claiming and money links work →
Platforms
We thought TikTok was labeling creators as AI. It wasn’t. Our mistake.
Two weeks ago it looked like TikTok had started putting AI labels on some creators’ accounts — the kind of thing this site exists to track. It hadn’t. Our own software had misread TikTok’s menus and settings text as if they were labels on the creators themselves, and the labels it reported were never really there. We’ve deleted every one of those readings and rebuilt the check so it can’t make that mistake again. So, stated as plainly as we can: right now, not one creator we track carries an AI label from any platform. If a platform ever does label one of these accounts for real, we’ll check it twice before you read about it here.
How we verify things →