The Record · the registry bulletin
Week of July 21, 2026
Published July 21, 2026 · 7 items · RSS
Ledger
Fifteen more creator accounts confirmed gone; the vanished ledger reaches 46
This week's registry sweep hand-confirmed fifteen new account deaths: five X accounts (including Mathilde Tantot's), one X suspension, five YouTube channels, two Shopify storefronts, and two Snapchat profiles. Each affected page now carries a dated note, and every death is recorded in the vanished-accounts ledger — which regenerates from the registry and now documents 46. One automated alarm proved false on hand-check and produced no page change; nothing enters this ledger on an automated signal alone.
The vanished ledger →
Platforms
A 2.7M-follower Instagram, deleted and restored in two weeks
Olivia Casta's Instagram — the largest account in our files, and attached to a persona nobody has proven real or artificial — stopped resolving in early July; her own X account stated Meta had deleted it without warning. On July 20 we observed the account live again, followers intact. Neither the deletion nor the restoration has an explanation on record, and we do not invent one. Both events are documented on her page.
Olivia Casta's page →
Advisory
A platform AI label appeared on a documented-real creator's account
TikTok's AI-generated content label was observed this week on the account of Taila Maddison — a broadcaster-documented real person. A platform label marks content, not personhood: real creators can and do post AI-made material, and her verdict is unchanged. The reverse also happened this week — an AI label quietly disappeared from another real creator's account. Labels come and go; documented evidence is what verdicts rest on.
Taila Maddison's page →
Registry
The confirmed-AI list grew to 28, on the operators' own words
Two personas moved from Unverified to confirmed AI Persona this week — both on first-party evidence: one operator's Fanvue bio states "I'm virtual" in her own voice, and the other's page carries the platform's "AI generated or enhanced" disclosure marker. Both disclosures were archived the day they were verified, which is our standard: once an operator's own confirmation is on the record, later marketing changes never walk a verdict back.
The documented AI-influencer list →
Registry
A studio quietly removed its personas' names from its own website
ZELU House, the studio behind confirmed AI personas Mia Zelu and Ana Zelu, rewrote its homepage this week: "Home of Mia Zelu & Ana Zelu" became "Editorial campaign imagery and original digital characters," and the personas' names no longer appear. This is the third operator disclosure-scrub documented this month. It changes nothing here — the earlier wording is receipted in our July 13 capture, and verdicts rest on archived evidence.
Mia Zelu's page →
Registry
The State of "Is She Real?" updated to full registry scale
The 2026 data report now computes from all 615 researched creators instead of the original 65-name cohort: 1 in 6 isn't provably a real person, 99% of the documented-real women have fakes or scams under their names, and 1,850 documented warnings are cataloged. Every figure regenerates from the registry at build, so the report can no longer drift out of date.
The report →
Platforms
Twelve days to the EU's AI-labeling deadline
Article 50 of the EU AI Act begins applying August 2: AI-generated images, audio, and video must carry machine-readable markers, with disclosure obligations falling on whoever publishes the content, EU-based or not. Whether wholly fictional personas meet the Act's technical definition of a "deep fake" remains legally contested. Our guide explains what the labels will and won't tell you.
What the AI label means →