Danesh Is Back on TikTok — On the Same Account TikTok Permanently Banned

Eight days after TikTok permanently banned Danesh Noshirvan, he’s back on TikTok.

Same account. Same @ThatDaneshGuy. Two million followers. Ninety-one million likes. He is posting new videos as if nothing happened, broadcasting from the account TikTok told him — and the world — no longer exists.

In one of his new videos, Noshirvan holds up TikTok’s ban notice on screen. It reads, “Your account has been permanently banned and you can no longer access TikTok” — while using TikTok to show it.

He’s complaining that TikTok won’t restore his account. On TikTok. From the account, they won’t restore.

The Ban Was Real

TikTok’s automated enforcement system, the AI layer that governs account status, still registers Noshirvan as permanently banned. When queried, the system confirms the ban is active.

The ban came after TikTok’s Trust and Safety division — led by Suzy Loftus, the platform’s Head of U.S. Trust and Safety and a former San Francisco interim district attorney — reportedly received a federal judge’s sanctions ruling against Noshirvan. That ruling found that Noshirvan acted in “subjective bad faith” and used his platform to “incite harassment and intimidation.”

The federal sanctions order stands. The $62,320 penalty remains unpaid.

Five Bans, Five Resurrections

According to Rebecca Martin, who has monitored Noshirvan’s TikTok activity for five years, TikTok has banned Danesh at least five times.

Most TikTok users who get permanently banned have to start over. Millions of creators with followings have had to accept that reality.

Noshirvan gets banned, then unbanned, which eliminates any theory that this is a fluke.

How Does a Permanently Banned User Post From a Permanently Banned Account?

There are a few possible explanations. None reflects well on TikTok, which claims it has spent $2 billion on trust and safety.

Explanation 1: Someone Inside TikTok Let Him Back In

TikTok’s ban enforcement is handled by an automated system. The system still shows Noshirvan as banned.

Someone with backend access — an engineer, a trust and safety employee, or someone with administrative privileges — could have reactivated the account without updating the enforcement record. This could mean a rogue employee acted independently, a policy reversal was made without documentation, or someone inside the company did Noshirvan a favor.

Explanation 2: He Tricked His Way Back In

The ban worked for eight days. Noshirvan was locked out. Someone or something unlocked the account. His restoration might have involved deception.

TikTok employs thousands of customer service agents worldwide. Most of them handle routine complaints: a hacked account, a lost password, a video wrongly removed. They can restore accounts. What they may not have is the context to know why a particular account was banned in the first place.

Noshirvan could have contacted TikTok support through a back channel, posing as someone else, submitting a fabricated claim of wrongful termination, or simply working the system until he reached a low-level agent who saw a locked account and a convincing request. The enforcement system never gets updated because the restoration didn’t go through the team that imposed the ban.

TikTok also has automated account recovery systems — email verification, phone verification, and identity confirmation. If Noshirvan found a way to trigger one of those processes that overrode the ban without routing through the appeals team, he could have reactivated the account without any human at TikTok approving it.

Explanation 3: Through Illegal Hacking

There is another possibility. He may have phished an actual TikTok employee, obtaining login credentials through a fake email or a spoofed internal request, and used that access to unlock himself. This would constitute a federal crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

All three scenarios point to the same problem. A man who was sanctioned by a federal judge for inciting harassment used some combination of deception and persistence to undo a permanent ban.

The Defanged Danesh

The Frank Report’s Danesh Chronicles, along with the investigative work of Rich Luthmann and Joey Camp, have exposed that Noshirvan’s 2 million followers are mainly bot networks. The purchased followers are the subject of jokes. When Danesh targets someone now, the targets know the mob isn’t real. The angry comments are bots. The phone calls are auto-dialers. The one-star reviews are software.

What He Did With His Resurrection

Noshirvan didn’t use his return to show restraint, or demonstrate that TikTok’s second chance, however he obtained it, would be used responsibly.

In the video posted from his supposedly banned account, he launched a “Special Report” attacking Jeremy Wilson, one of the victims currently suing him.

The behavior that got him sanctioned by a federal judge resumed the moment he reappeared.