Joe Rogan | Did Instagram Shadow Ban Andrew Schulz?

Yeah, the Schultz thing was really cool to see because she just did it on his own. Yep. And it's great. But here's the thing, and I wanted to bring this up with you, Jamie. Is he shadowbanned on Instagram? Tell me what you think is going on because... I texted him when that happened because I looked it up. Yes. And his name showed up right at the top of my list. But he said other people were getting it. I said you didn't show up on mine. Really? Yes. I think it changed the algorithm because I've noticed if you... Put home on it. It could be what? It could be, but you'll have to take it like a case-by-case scenario. Was the person that first sent it to him, are they already following him? Do they search his name a lot? Did they block anything he's ever done? But people have told him, hey man, I'm having a hard time finding your Instagram page. And so he asked me about it, and I said, what do you mean? And I go, I see you right now. You're on my feed. And he goes, no, no, no. If you go to search me... So I go, okay, let me search you. I go, whoa. I searched Andrew Schultz. Nothing. I mean a bunch of other people, but not him. And he's got a lot of followers. Like, let's do it right now. Pull it up, put it up on screen. Put it up on the screen. Let's just do it in real time. Well, at this part of what I was saying is I follow him. So if you're not already following him, you might show up in a different way. But I do follow him. Look at his feed. Hi. Now, just write Andrew and give him some space. Write space. I haven't got to Andrew yet. Space. Well, it should have shown up already to be honest. But just space and then type in his name. I am. See, it's not coming up. Right. That's what I'm saying. Now hit search. I don't think you can't search on the web. Oh, on the web. But look, it's not showing up. You see Andrew Schultz fans. Even when I typed in his actual account name, it didn't show up. Oh, but hold on a second. What is that Andrew Schultz fans? What is that? Click on that. Right there. Below it. Below it. Below it. Below it. Keep going. Keep going. Are you blind? There it is. That's right. Click on that. I know, but it's not. So it's his fans. It's just a fan. Oh, 165 followers. Yes, I am. That's crazy. Right. No, I know it's not him. I'm just trying to figure out what it is. So just in that search, it's not showing up. And it wouldn't show up for me on my phone either. Now, it doesn't make any sense. Because what does he have? Like a half a million followers? How many followers do you have? I can't find them alone. Isn't that interesting? Yeah. Like he thinks he's being shadow banned. What's the... Are they trying to like get some money out of it? No. 282,000. 282,000 people. And he can't find his page on Instagram. Is it Schultz with a T or no? No. No. No. U L Z. But it's not showing up. It's not showing up on mine either. Now, we might be being paranoid here. And it might be just something in the search algorithm that for whatever reason, his thing isn't showing up. And he used to say Andrew Hezzi Schultz. I don't know why Hezzi. What does that mean? Nicknameofizinal. Okay. And maybe he thought that Hezzi was f**king him up. So he took Hezzi out of his name in the... On his Instagram page. So it just says Andrew Schultz now. But even though still you can't find it. Yeah, that's weird. You have to type in Andrew Schultz all together with no space and then you'll find them. That's what I just did and it didn't come up. With no space? Yeah. That's what I was just doing in front of... While you were asking me to type stuff and I was typing it in and it was like... Oh, so you did it with space and no space? Yeah, that's when I did it to him. I was like, if you're typing in no space, that's where the issue is. If I'd leave it... If I'd typed in all the way, it's showing up right away. And he said, well, I'm seeing that from people both ways. So I go, well, if that's what you're seeing, then I'll go out on a limb and sort of say... Does he show up? Someone is manipulating that search result because you can manipulate search results. Well, here's the thing. They do shadow ban people on certain social media platforms. This has been revealed through hidden camera conversations with people who are... Whatever, moderators or engineers or people that work behind the scenes on Twitter or Facebook. And they do manipulate algorithms, manipulate searches and shadow ban people. And there's a lot of people, particularly conservative people, which he's not conservative. But what he is is, you know, he's a raunchy comedian and he might have done something that someone felt was not woke or what have you. And they want to slow down the broadcasting of his signal. That's entirely possible. I don't know if it's true, though. I would love to have a logical explanation that... It's still why he's not showing up. Yes, but he's, you know, he's complaining about it that it's a shadow ban. Anyway, go follow Andrew, Andrew Schulz. Yeah. S-H-U-L-Z. S-H-U-L-Z. Go follow. Yeah, I saw him in Montreal. Just to tell Instagram shadow bans, we can get around you, bitch. He's a marketing genius. It's just great to hear him talk about, you know, what he's doing and like how to get around it. And it's exciting because you forget as an artist that you have a lot of power. Like you're everything. You're the product and sometimes, especially in the old models, you just kind of waited to be anointed. Well, he's got millions and millions of views on his special on YouTube. And if you stop and think about if that was on Comedy Central, which Comedy Central did want to give him a special, he probably would get like maybe a million people would watch it when it came out and that would be the end of it. I have a special and I don't think people are watching it. Just YouTube is accessible. You can be in comedy jail. You could do a great special and no one can find it. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And everyone has YouTube. Everyone can click on the link. Everyone has YouTube. And this was his logic. He was like, you know what, I'm just going to release the whole thing on YouTube. And look, he went straight from not selling out clubs to selling out theaters like that. Now he sells out everywhere, internationally.