The official Twitter account for Arc System Works America has gotten itself into trouble for posting a very alluring piece of oshiri art from Guilty Gear.

The allegedly contentious tweet that got the account punished included the seductively wagging hind parts of Guilty Gear character Jack-O’:

A handy website created to check if a Twitter account has been shadowbanned lists Arc System Works U’s handle with several bans including a search suggestion ban, a ghost ban, and an overall search ban:

Arc System Works U’s account has incurred the following restrictions according to the website:

Search Suggestion Ban This type of ban causes an account to not populate search suggestions and people search results when it is searched for while being logged out. Twitter seems to take tie strength or a similar metric into account. While an account may be suggested to users you are strongly tied to, it may not be shown to others. Search Ban This type of ban causes your tweets to be hidden from the search results entirely, no matter whether the quality filter is turned on or off. This behavior includes hashtags as well. This type of ban seems to be temporally limited for active accounts. Ghost Ban This is what is referred to as conventional shadowban or thread banning as well. It comprises a search ban while threads are completely ripped apart by hiding reply tweets of the affected user to others. Everything will look perfectly normal to the affected user but many others will not be able to see reply tweets of the affected user at all. Reasons for this ban include behavior like excessive tweeting or following. Again, this type of ban seems to be temporally limited for active accounts.

There is no way to appeal a shadowbanning as Twitter has continuously denied such a process even takes place. A lot of accounts previously shadowbanned have been released from the restrictions, however, there is little evidence to suggest if it was done under manual review or by an automated timeout process.

Arc System Works U can only hope their banning expires soon enough as it’s quite counterintuitive to run a PR social media account that can’t even be properly searched for on the platform.