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Strip the things
that quietly hurt reach.

Paste a caption. The scrubber removes zero-width characters (a known shadowban vector), straightens curly quotes, normalises dashes, tidies whitespace, and flags risky phrases — without deleting them.

Paste the caption

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What to scrub

Cleaned · 168 chars
monday note: "the thing you"re avoiding is usually the thing worth writing about."

check my bio for the link — link 4 link not allowed but follow4follow is fine right?

What changed

  • 1× Removed invisible / zero-width characters
  • 3× Replaced curly quotes with straight quotes
  • 1× Normalised em / en dashes to —
  • 1× Tidied whitespace, newlines, and ellipses
Shadowban risk · 2 matches

These phrases are flagged on multiple platforms. They were not removed automatically — you decide whether to keep them.

  • check my bio
  • follow4follow

How this works

Opinions,
not magic.

This tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing goes to a server; nothing is logged. We keep it simple so you can see exactly what it's doing.

  1. Zero-width characters (\u200B-\u200D, etc.) get removed quietly — they look invisible to you and look like spam to platform classifiers.
  2. Smart quotes and ellipses get normalised to ASCII so they survive copy-paste between systems.
  3. Whitespace tidying: nbsp → space, multiple spaces → one, trailing spaces dropped, 3+ newlines → 2.
  4. Shadowban tokens are flagged but never deleted automatically — we surface them so you can decide.
  5. Each transformation is logged with a count so you can see exactly what changed.

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