Is this a sign that I’m about to get shadow banned on TikTok?

I posted a little less than an hr ago, it consists of 2 photos and likes were coming in pretty quickly. Then I checked analytics and noticed that all the traffic is 100% from personal profile and none from fyp. Considering most of my engagement comes from the fyp, I was suspicious and a content creator said that’s a sign there’s a pending violation. The post will reach a little less than 250 views and engagement has just stopped, which makes no sense. I posted 2 videos yesterday that did alright and the account check claims there’s no pending issues. So why did they stop all reach with my recent post? When I first posted, I added the fyp hashtag & removed it, since I wasn’t sure if that was affecting engagement.

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Now that an hr has passed, this is what it says

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