Can anyone explain what's going on with my account? Is this a ghost/shadow ban, and is there anything I can do?

Quick recap:

1. I had an old account. 2. I never broke any rule or did anything wrong, never used any automation. I'm a completely normal person who used X occasionally. 3. One day, that fateful day (Sat/Sun 30th/31st May 2026) when there was a massive banwave of "bots" that Nikita Bier boasted about, I opened X on my desktop computer, scrolled down my feed, and tried to like a single post, and instead of applying the like, it paused, and then after a few seconds, told me I was suspended. 4. At that exact moment, I received an email telling me I had been suspended for "inauthentic behaviour". 5. I wrote an appeal and got no response. 6. About a week later I wrote another appeal, and got the stock reply that everyone gets saying that a violation did take place, specifically "inauthentic behaviours", which is a link, and I followed the link, and it listed a bunch of stuff I've never done. 7. The end of the email says "In order to restore account functionality, you can resolve the violations by logging into your account and completing the on-screen instructions." which as we all know, is nonsensical and not possible. 8. A few weeks after that, X suddenly doesn't say I'm suspended any more. No email, it just randomly unsuspended me. 9. If I look at my account in private/incognito browsing (without being logged in), it says "@username has never posted", which is untrue. I have thousands of posts, and twice as an experiment tried to make a new post that was seen by nobody. 10. I don't receive any likes or replies on my old posts, whereas they used to be regular. 11. Seemingly none of my followers know I exist, it's as if I'm still suspended for them. 12. I keep getting follows and likes from porn bots - accounts with 0 followers, following 3000 people, 0 posts, an attractive woman as the picture, and the account has nothing to do with my area, likes, or interests. I block them.

So what is going on? Does my account exist in some kind of fake X inhabited only by bots? Is there any way to get out of this? If I use the "am I shadowbanned" tools it says my account doesn't exist or has never posted. How come some (bot) accounts are still apparently finding me and following me and liking my posts, but my followers cannot, and to logged out users I don't exist?

I've actually been completely weaned off X now. The absence of 1.5 months was enough to make me no longer care. But I am still curious about what the fuck is going on and the apparent injustice of real people who have done nothing wrong being treated like this, without any ability to contact support (do real people even exist at X support? I have yet to encounter a non-automatic response).