This is an extremely well-known phenomenon. This is the third time I’ve heard of it happening to an OG. It’s pretty common knowledge that the right teams inside Instagram look the other way; what’s a user going to do, sue? People are making money.
I’m sure your roommate who works on Tupperware or whatever wouldn’t know a thing about it, but Facebook is also roughly the size of Romania, so perhaps your front row seat to the inner workings of an organization that also legally compels your roommate to not tell you things isn’t as end all as you’d assume.
Hint: I work at Facebook.