Instagram Follower Anomalies — A Data Analysis

This page is a data analysis of the public Instagram follower statistics for @therelaxedmillionaire (Liana Shanti), drawn from third-party sources. It documents a recurring anomaly — sudden one-day follower gains that step up and persist, against a baseline that otherwise drifts flat or downward, with no matching change in posts, following count, or engagement. These one-day step-changes do not match the gradual shape of organic growth; the public data shows the anomaly itself, not its cause, and readers can verify the figures at the source linked below and judge for themselves. The record runs from September 2025 to November 2026 (extended November 5, 2026 — see the update section below), with a same-window comparison to a second account belonging to the same person. Two Instagram accounts are monitored throughout: @therelaxedmillionaire, where the anomalies appear, and @lianashanti, the comparison account, plotted over the same dates on the same scale.

Headline finding

Over September 2025 – April 2026 the account grew a net +21,449 followers (10,543 → 31,992). Of that, +21,353 — roughly 99.5% — arrived on just 17 single days. The other ~120 days, the organic baseline, netted close to zero and were negative 64% of the time.

The 17 spike days (Sept 2025 – Apr 2026)

Each is a one-day gain that holds at the new level afterward — a step-change rather than the gradual curve of organic growth:

Date	One-day follower gain
2025-11-01	+537
2025-11-06	+652
2025-11-15	+324
2025-11-21	+863
2025-12-05	+820
2025-12-26	+1,323
2025-12-29	+946
2025-12-30	+678
2026-01-23	+1,754
2026-01-29	+2,557
2026-02-06	+1,534
2026-02-08	+934
2026-02-12	+1,060
2026-02-17	+823
2026-03-06	+1,715
2026-03-15	+2,019
2026-04-07	+2,814
Total across 17 days	+21,353

Close-up: May 2026

May 2026 shows the same behaviour at finer resolution:

Date	Followers Δ	Followers total
Sun 2026-05-17	−175	35,410
Mon 2026-05-18	−110	35,300
Tue 2026-05-19	−127	35,173
Wed 2026-05-20	+440	35,613
Thu 2026-05-21	+248	35,861
Fri 2026-05-22	+516	36,377
Sat 2026-05-23	−186	36,191
Sun 2026-05-24	−119	36,072
Mon 2026-05-25	−150	35,922
Tue 2026-05-26	−80	35,842
Wed 2026-05-27	−92	35,750
Thu 2026-05-28	−85	35,665
Fri 2026-05-29	+1,976	37,641
Sat 2026-05-30	+601	38,242

Same-day revision on May 29

Three snapshots were captured on May 29. The same calendar row for Friday 05-29 changes between them:

Snapshot time (May 29)	Value shown for Fri 05-29	Reading
8:28 AM	−55	Normal morning decline
9:24 AM	+1,976	+2,031 swing in under one hour
10:31 PM	+1,976	Settled / confirmed

Between the 8:28 AM and 9:24 AM captures the day’s net moved from −55 to +1,976 — a swing of about 2,031 followers inside one hour, on a weekday morning, with no post, story, or engagement event recorded to accompany it.

The same thing recurred the next day. A capture the previous night showed Saturday May 30 at −119; a capture the following afternoon showed the same day revised to +601 (a total of 38,242) — roughly 720 followers added to that day between the two captures, a second instance of the

Update: June – November 2026

Added October 2, 2026; extended November 5, 2026 with October and early-November data (see “October 2026” below). The record was extended with eleven further monthly Social Blade captures taken on June 29, August 1, August 31, September 14, September 22 and September 27, 2026 (six of @therelaxedmillionaire, five of @lianashanti). These are saved copies of the live Social Blade page, so the account handle is embedded in every file and attribution is exact. Joined to the earlier captures they give a continuous day-by-day record from March 14 to September 27, 2026, with one three-day gap (June 30 – July 2) where no capture reaches. Every figure below can be checked against the capture files and the downloadable daily record on the Evidence Exhibit Index, or against the live Social Blade page.

What the 231 days show

Across the 231 recorded days the account went from 29,496 to 42,198 followers. Only 27 days show a gain of 300 or more, and together those 27 days added +31,937. Thirteen days show a removal of 300 or more, together −10,961. The remaining 191 ordinary days netted −9,812: 158 of them were negative, and the median ordinary day lost 51 followers. In other words, on any day that is not one of the 27 spike days, the account is shrinking.

Organic audience growth is usually gradual: many small positive days, with occasional larger days that coincide with something visible — a post that travels, press, a collaboration. The pattern recorded here is the reverse: a steadily negative baseline interrupted by isolated single days that each add several hundred to several thousand followers, with no corresponding change in the account’s post count or following count in the same Social Blade tables. The data shows the shape of the anomaly, not its cause.

The largest single days, June – September 2026

Date	Daily change	Total after	Note
June 28, 2026	+1,237	39,760	Largest day in June; the preceding week shows +411, +433 and +316 on June 15, 23 and 26.
July 9, 2026	+1,644	41,507	Followed by −372 on July 11; the rest of July nets +94 over 29 recorded days.
August 15, 2026	+3,187	43,006	Two days after the 13 August 2026 jury verdict that closed the trial (the jury rejected Wilson’s defamation claims and returned just over $40 million against her). Largest single-day gain in the entire record (August 2023 – November 2026). Peak total of 43,015 the next day; −309, −243, −151, −331 over the following week.
September 24, 2026	+2,637	42,262	Second-largest day of 2026.
September 26, 2026	−2,768	39,473	Largest single-day removal in the 2026 record, two days after the +2,637.

The verdict week, both accounts side by side

The jury returned its verdict on August 13, 2026, the end of the trial. On the day after the verdict, August 14, @therelaxedmillionaire recorded −42 followers and @lianashanti −1. On August 15, two days after the verdict, @therelaxedmillionaire recorded +3,187 in a single day, about 8% of its 39,819 followers the day before, the largest single day in the whole record. On the same day @lianashanti recorded −6 (34,320 to 34,314). Neither account had a move of 300 or more on any of the three days before the verdict.

Date	Day	@therelaxedmillionaire change	@therelaxedmillionaire total	@lianashanti change	@lianashanti total
Wed 2026-08-12	Day before the verdict	−37	39,891	−2	34,322
Thu 2026-08-13	Verdict day (end of trial)	−30	39,861	−1	34,321
Fri 2026-08-14	Day after the verdict	−42	39,819	−1	34,320
Sat 2026-08-15	Two days after the verdict	+3,187	43,006	−6	34,314
Sun 2026-08-16	Three days after	+9	43,015	−5	34,309
Mon 2026-08-17	Four days after	−309	42,706	+1	34,310

September 2026: gains and removals in alternation

September is the clearest month in the record. Each gain of 300 or more is followed, one or two days later, by a removal of similar size, and the account ends the month 1,316 followers lower than it began it despite six large gain days.

Gain day(s)	Removal that followed	Days between
Sep 9 +975, Sep 10 +833	Sep 11 −1,291	1
Sep 13 +935	Sep 15 −1,306	2
Sep 19 +695	Sep 20 −854	1
Sep 21 +982	Sep 22 −1,067	1
Sep 24 +2,637	Sep 26 −2,768	2

Green marks a gain and red a removal, the same colours as in the charts.

One-day gains, each followed by a removal within one to two days.

The comparison account over the same days

@lianashanti, operated by the same person, moved from 35,543 to 34,853 over the same period. Of its 186 ordinary days, 142 were negative, with a median loss of about 5 followers a day; the only movements beyond 300 are a +677 on September 10, a −336 on September 7 and a −325 on October 10. Two accounts, one operator, the same months: one shows the spike-and-removal signature and the other does not.

October 2026: seven days beyond 300 on one account, one on the other

Added October 31, 2026. The record was extended to October 31, 2026 from the automated twice-daily Social Blade captures (morning and evening) and two saved Social Blade pages taken on October 31 (one of each account). Each is a saved copy of the live Social Blade page, so the account handle is embedded in the file. The October 2 captures also list the days between the September 27 and October 2 captures, so the record now runs continuously from March 14 to November 5, 2026, apart from the one gap noted above. Social Blade can revise a day that is still open: September 27, captured that morning at 39,405 for @therelaxedmillionaire, is recorded at 39,393 once the day closed, and the daily figures in this update are the last recorded values. From September 28 to October 1, @therelaxedmillionaire recorded −70, −88, −47 and −44 (net −249) and @lianashanti +23, −144, +11 and −52 (net −162); neither account shows a day of 300 or more in those four days.

Over the 30 days @therelaxedmillionaire went from 39,144 to 42,528, a net gain of 3,384. Seven days show a movement of 300 or more: five gains (+1,438, +465, +691, +891 and +1,392) totalling +4,877, and two removals (−626 and −578) totalling −1,204. The other 23 days net −289, with a median of −6 followers a day. The same alternation of large gains and large removals seen in September appears again, most clearly on October 2 – 3 and October 27 – 30.

Date	Daily change	Total after	Note
October 2, 2026	+1,438	40,582	Largest day of the month. Gain of 1,438 on the first day of the new capture. The total on October 1 was 39,144.
October 3, 2026	−626	39,956	Removal the next day: 43% of the October 2 gain.
October 4, 2026	+465	40,421
October 5, 2026	+691	41,112	Four days, October 2 – 5, net +1,968.
October 23, 2026	+891	42,272	Recorded as +1,305 in the morning capture and +891 in the evening capture. Follows +155 on October 22; the three days October 22 – 24 net +1,040.
October 27, 2026	+1,392	43,573	Second-largest day of the month and the highest total of the capture, above the 43,015 peak of August 16. Followed by −288, −74 and −578 on October 28, 29 and 30; the four days October 27 – 30 net +452.
October 30, 2026	−578	42,633	The only removal of 300 or more in the month other than October 3.

The comparison account over the same days. @lianashanti, operated by the same person, went from 34,231 to 34,261, a net gain of 30. It has one movement beyond 300, a removal of −325 on October 10; its largest gain is +285 (October 24). Of its 30 days, 16 were negative, with a median change of −9 followers a day. It shows no gain of 300 or more in the month, while @therelaxedmillionaire shows five.

As elsewhere on this page, these are arithmetic readings of the saved Social Blade tables. They record what each count did from day to day; they do not by themselves show why. The two October capture files are listed on the Evidence Exhibit Index.

Month by month

Month (2026)	@therelaxedmillionaire net	Days negative	Largest gain	Largest removal	@lianashanti net
March 14–31	−249	16 of 18	+2,019 (Mar 15)	−547 (Mar 17)	−84
April	+2,824	24 of 28	+2,814 (Apr 7)	−130	−38
May	+4,965	22 of 31	+1,976 (May 29)	−259	−181
June	+1,243	18 of 29	+1,237 (Jun 28)	−459 (Jun 1)	−474
July 3–31	+94	22 of 29	+1,644 (Jul 9)	−372 (Jul 11)	−77
August	+810	26 of 31	+3,187 (Aug 15)	−331 (Aug 20)	−206
September 1–27	−1,316	19 of 26	+2,637 (Sep 24)	−2,768 (Sep 26)	+149
September 28 – October 1	−249	4 of 4	none	−88 (Sep 29)	−162
October 2–31	+3,384	15 of 30	+1,438 (Oct 2)	−626 (Oct 3)	+30
November 1–5	−330	5 of 5	none	−127 (Nov 3)	+592

Figures are Social Blade’s own daily values as captured; totals are the follower count shown for that day. Months with fewer recorded days reflect the capture gaps noted above. A reader can rebuild every number here from the daily CSV on the Evidence Exhibit Index.

same one-day upward revision.

Stories posted against follower change, October 1–30

This is a side-by-side comparison of the two accounts over the same 30 days, October 1–30, 2026, using the Daily Record’s day-by-day calendar of the stories each account posted. Over those 30 days @therelaxedmillionaire posted 75 stories, on 16 of the 30 days, and its follower total rose by 3,445. @lianashanti posted 813 stories, on every day of the month, and its follower total ended 45 lower than it began.

The disparity. @lianashanti posted about 11 times as many stories as @therelaxedmillionaire (813 against 75) yet added less than a third as many followers on the days its total rose (1,710 against 5,421). Per story posted, @therelaxedmillionaire’s rising days added 72 followers and @lianashanti’s added 2. On the net figures for the month, @therelaxedmillionaire finished 3,445 higher and @lianashanti finished 45 lower.

On the days that moved the follower total by 300 or more, @therelaxedmillionaire posted 7, 2, 3, 36, 1, 0 and 2 stories (October 2, 3, 4, 5, 23, 27 and 30). The +1,392 on October 27 came on a day with no stories captured. Excluding October 5, when it posted 36 stories, the account posted 39 stories across 15 days. Its largest gain, +1,438 on October 2, came on a day with 7 stories. @lianashanti’s only move of 300 or more was −325 on October 10, a day with 19 stories; its daily changes otherwise stayed between −272 and +285 while it posted between 1 and 86 stories a day.

Counting the month’s days separately by direction, the picture is wider than the net figures. Adding together the days on which its total rose, @therelaxedmillionaire gained 5,421 followers; adding together the days on which it fell, it lost 1,976, which leaves the net +3,445. @lianashanti’s rising days add up to 1,710 and its falling days to 1,755, a net of −45. These are sums of Social Blade’s daily net figures, so additions and removals that cancel out within a single day are not visible in them.

October 1–30, 2026	Days the total rose	Added on those days	Days the total fell	Removed on those days	Net change
@therelaxedmillionaire	15	+5,421	15	−1,976	+3,445
@lianashanti	13	+1,710	17	−1,755	−45

The drawdown, meaning the largest fall from a month high to a later low, shows the same thing from another angle. @therelaxedmillionaire’s total peaked at 43,573 on October 27 and fell 940 (2.2%) to 42,633 over the next three days, where it ended the month. @lianashanti’s total peaked at 34,576 on October 9 and fell 343 (1.0%) to 34,233 by October 23; it ended the month 338 below that high.

Largest drawdown, Sept 30 – Oct 30, 2026	High	Low after the high	Drawdown	Total on Oct 30
@therelaxedmillionaire	43,573 (Oct 27)	42,633 (Oct 30)	−940 (−2.2%)	42,633
@lianashanti	34,576 (Oct 9)	34,233 (Oct 23)	−343 (−1.0%)	34,238

Method and limits: story counts come from the Daily Record calendars and count stories only, not feed posts. A day showing zero means no story was captured that day; an absent exhibit is not evidence that nothing was posted. Follower changes are Social Blade’s daily figures, as elsewhere on this page. Both accounts are compared over the same 30 days, October 1–30, 2026.

Day-by-day table: stories and follower change, October 1–30

Date (2026)	@therelaxedmillionaire stories	@therelaxedmillionaire follower change	@lianashanti stories	@lianashanti follower change
Oct 1	7	−44	5	−52
Oct 2	7	+1,438	3	+238
Oct 3	2	−626	26	−204
Oct 4	3	+465	21	+10
Oct 5	36	+691	20	+245
Oct 6	5	+177	4	−56
Oct 7	0	+34	79	−69
Oct 8	2	−15	8	−66
Oct 9	0	+9	50	+247
Oct 10	1	+45	19	−325
Oct 11	1	+55	16	+176
Oct 12	0	+25	35	+82
Oct 13	0	+27	86	−145
Oct 14	0	−24	46	−18
Oct 15	0	+4	1	+1
Oct 16	1	−8	15	−15
Oct 17	0	−41	53	+80
Oct 18	0	−23	27	−3
Oct 19	0	−51	34	−17
Oct 20	0	−96	21	+15
Oct 21	0	−4	47	−46
Oct 22	2	+155	4	−75
Oct 23	1	+891	12	−53
Oct 24	3	−6	16	+285
Oct 25	1	−98	8	−234
Oct 26	0	+13	58	+15
Oct 27	0	+1,392	32	+154
Oct 28	0	−288	33	−105
Oct 29	1	−74	8	+162
Oct 30	2	−578	26	−272
Total, Oct 1–30	75	+3,445	813	−45

The pattern is account-specific

Her main @lianashanti account (“Spiritual Teacher / MS Psychology”), tracked over the same window, sits essentially flat at about 35,400 followers — a daily average of −4 — with no comparable one-day spikes. Because one account shows the repeated step-changes and the other does not, the pattern is unlikely to be a Social Blade quirk or a platform-wide artifact — it is specific to @therelaxedmillionaire, which over this period also carried several different display names (“Nervous System Rewiring for Wealth,” “Break The Mother Spell for Wealth,” “Sales Mogul / MS Neuropsych”).

Sources & method

Follower totals were read from Social Blade’s public daily figures; the daily change shown here is the difference between consecutive totals. The Sept–Apr series was reconstructed from 57 dated Social Blade captures, cross-checked against one another. Readers can verify current and historical figures directly at Social Blade, linked below.

Social Blade’s historical records for both accounts can be requested from Social Blade directly.

How these figures were worked out, and how to check them

Every number on this page comes from two sources and a short set of counting rules, set out here so that anyone can repeat the work and check it.

1. Follower totals. Each account’s total for each day comes from Social Blade’s public daily table (@therelaxedmillionaire, @lianashanti). The daily change is that day’s total minus the previous day’s total, as Social Blade reports it.
2. Gain days and removal days. A day whose change is +300 or more is a gain day; −300 or less is a removal day. Every other day is an ordinary day. The same thresholds are applied to both accounts.
3. Gaps in the captures. Where captures skipped days on @therelaxedmillionaire, the change for the day after the gap is Social Blade’s own single-day figure (April 16: 101; July 3: 169), not a multi-day difference, so a gap is never counted as a spike.
4. Revisions. Social Blade sometimes revises a day’s figure after the fact (for example September 27). The newest figure is used and the revision is flagged in the data files.
5. Added, removed and net. “Added” is the sum of the days whose change is positive; “removed” is the sum of the days whose change is negative. Net is the two combined, which equals the last total minus the first.
6. Drawdown. The highest total reached in the period, then the largest drop below it that follows.
7. Stories. Story counts come from the Daily Record’s day-by-day calendar for each account and count stories only, not feed posts. A zero means none was captured that day.
8. Per-story figures. Followers added on rising days divided by the stories posted in the same 30 days.

To check it yourself. Open Social Blade’s daily table for each account, or download the daily data files (@therelaxedmillionaire, @lianashanti), which hold the date, the follower total and the daily change for every day on this page. In a spreadsheet, filter to the dates you want and use =SUMIF(C:C,">0") for followers added, =SUMIF(C:C,"<0") for followers removed and =COUNTIF(C:C,">=300") for gain days, where column C is the daily change. The files and the Social Blade tables should agree with every figure above. Social Blade is a third-party service whose figures can be revised, so a later visit may differ slightly from the figures used here. Historical records can be requested from Social Blade directly.

Cross-source corroboration

An independent, anonymous story-viewer site recorded followers rising from 33.1K (May 10) to 34.4K (May 12) — the same window as a Social Blade gain. The movement appears across more than one source rather than as a single-site artifact.