The Record · the registry bulletin
Week of August 24, 2026
Published August 27, 2026 · 5 items · RSS
Ledger
Forty-five more Instagram accounts are gone — the biggest single week in this file
Forty-five Instagram accounts across forty-one creators’ pages stopped answering this week and are now recorded as gone. We were slow about it on purpose: each one had to fail our checks on two separate weeks, and then fail a second, different kind of check, before we wrote anything down. Thirteen were the main account on their page, so those thirteen pages now answer “what happened to her Instagram?” in plain words, with dates. There is no explanation on record for any of them — accounts disappear because of removals, deactivations, renames, and nothing public says which happened here, so we don’t guess. Where a creator’s other accounts are still up, her page says exactly that — most of these women are still easy to find, and the page shows where. And the follow-through we owed you from last issue: the Instagram accounts that looked dead two weeks ago, during the stretch when Instagram was feeding our checks bad information, got their clean re-check this week. Some answered again and were cleared with nothing on their record. The ones that kept failing every check, every week, are in this week’s count. The ledger now stands at 217 accounts and links across 181 creators’ pages, each with its date, each still watched in case it comes back.
The vanished ledger →
Registry
Two accounts came back — and the same-person check did its job
Two Instagram accounts that disappeared earlier this month answered again this week — one after about a week away, one after two. Last issue we said our pages would start telling comeback stories, and that before re-linking a returned account we would check it’s still the same person underneath — because a familiar username coming back online is sometimes someone new wearing it. Both came back genuine: underneath the username, each account carries the same internal identity it had before it vanished. The same account, not a replacement. Both pages now carry the dates — gone, and back.
A comeback, recorded on her page → · The vanished ledger →
Advisory
Two paid-link warnings: names that don’t line up
Two cautions this week, and they teach the same lesson. On one page, an account nobody has confirmed as the creator herself began advertising a paid subscription under her name — while the public record says she announced leaving that platform back in 2021. On another, a creator’s social-media bio now points to a paid page under a completely different name than the one on her own verified link page. Neither is necessarily what it looks like, and we make no accusation about either — but a paid link is exactly the thing scammers fake, so both pages now say it in plain words: if you want to support a creator, reach her paid pages only through accounts and link pages you know are really hers. A name that merely looks right, reached through a trail you can’t trace back to her, is how fans get robbed.
Her page, with the caution → · The second page, with the caution → · Scam patterns we track →
Movements
Movements: what their own accounts announced this cycle
New this issue, and a standing section from now on: career facts read directly off creators’ own accounts — never rumor, never private life. This cycle: Paige Spiranac’s YouTube relaunched as “Paige Co.” with a Pro Shop partnership. Tayla Relph’s YouTube channel now presents her as Tayla Collins. Busty Bexx’s own bio posted tour dates — Las Vegas September 3–7, Phoenix September 7–8. And Mia Zelu, a disclosed AI persona, is promoting a new single, “Endless Summer.” Each item is dated on the creator’s page with the observation behind it. Bios change fast — before acting on any date or link, check it against the verified accounts her page lists.
Paige Spiranac → · Tayla Relph → · Busty Bexx → · Mia Zelu →
Registry
Three new documented rosters
Three new list pages went live this week, each built only from evidence pages we already publish. The golf girls: golf’s most-searched creators — seven documented real, one honestly unverified. The 2023 Twitch deepfake scandal: the women who were targeted, documented protectively — who they really are and where their real accounts live; we never link to fakes. And Miss AI: the world’s first AI beauty pageant, where by rule no contestant is a real person — winner and placed finalists, each with an evidence page naming what’s known about the operator.
The golf girls → · The Twitch deepfake scandal record → · Miss AI →