via depauliaonline.comMusic / NewsInstagram has banned #EDMThe photo sharing site is clamping down on hashtags that repeatedly violate community guidelines – it looks like the music world’s most lucrative genre is the latest victimShareLink copied ✔️August 5, 2015MusicNewsTextThomas Gorton Instagram is on a banning tip right now. The aubergine emoji has gotten the chop, as did the #curvy hashtag, (albeit temporarily) because they’re notorious conduits for sharing images that violate Instagram’s community guidelines, i.e. graphic sexual imagery. The latest hashtag to fall foul of the modbots is #EDM, dance music’s most divisive scene. Reviled by many, it manages to comfortably hold a place as the most lucrative genre in music. One may assume that #EDM has been banned on account of its infamously dubious cultural contributions (see David Guetta spinning actual nursery rhymes at Tomorrowland) but in fact it’s because the hashtag is regularly used to post pictures of complete and utter nakedness. The hashtag was reportedly automatically shut down after too many explicit photos and videos were posted containing #EDM in the caption (we’re awaiting comment from Instagram). That’s right, you thought EDM festivals were bad, but in fact everyone’s naked. Everyone is so naked that #EDM is banned on Instagram. I’ve talked trash about EDM in the past, but maybe this is exactly why people are willing to commit hundreds of pounds to watch Steve Aoki play "If You’re Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands". They’re so charged up by their own – and everyone else’s – liberated naked bodies, that the fact that the music sucks is a secondary. *goes online and buys tickets to Tomorrowland 2016* Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREBillionhappy is the ‘king’ of the Nu China rap sceneWhat makes a good sex song?LVMH Prize 2026Inside an exclusive celebration for the semi-finalists of the LVMH PrizeRap band WHATMORE are the sound of New York adolescence ‘Emo boy got the party lit’: The UK underground has a new identity crisisRawayana: How a Venezuelan pop band became political exiles‘Silence is punk as fuck’: Frost Children and Ninajirachi go head-to-head‘Fast, angry, chaotic’: The story behind the Prodigy’s ‘Firestarter’ video‘There’s been tears’: RZA on the final days of Wu-Tang ClanWhat went down at the beabadoobee Dazed cover signing Kim Gordon selects: What to listen to, watch and read7 of beabadoobee’s greatest collabsEscape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy