Only in Dade’s page vanished ‘without warning.’ What happened?

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Only in Dade’s page vanished ‘without warning.’ What happened?

All is right again in our little, insane pocket of paradise. Only in Dade is back.

The wildly popular Instagram page was offline for a hot minute, leaving the general pop pining for videos on the myriad zany happenings in our city, from traffic snarls and celebrity shenanigans to animal encounters and fights outside the club. “Only in Dade…” the man/woman on the street contributors would often say in a voiceover of their wacky submissions.

Actually, more than a hot minute. Followers — 2 million, give or take — started noticing something was amiss over the weekend during prime scrolling hours, around 4 a.m. Saturday. The 13-year-old page didn’t see the light of day again until early Tuesday afternoon. That translated to fans having a few rough, FOMO filled days.

The account announced it was back in business with a post that said, “We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.”

Included in the clip was a throwback newscast of NBC 6 anchor Jackie Nespral reporting that Oct. 5, 2021, was declared Only in Dade Day. That’s when local officials like then County Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz recognized the “fun and out of the ordinary” platform was also a “vital” source in helping to solve crimes, with the perpetrators often caught on film.

“I’m proud of the work,” Diaz told the station at the time. “It’s free speech.”

Fun fact: Among those on the OID staff to receive the proclamation? Local comedian turned “Saturday Night Live” star Marcello Hernandez, who’s in the summer’s Netflix blockbuster “72 Hours,” shot in his hometown.

OK, so what happened? Qué pasó? Conspiracy theorists likely want to believe some rule was violated or a NSFW video was too hot for the Internet to handle.

But the reason is way more boring — an AI glitch.

“While we embrace technology for so much that we do daily, it’s not 100% foolproof,” OID spokeswoman Liza Santana told the Miami Herald. “Without warning or reason, our page was taken down.”

After working closely with Meta, Instagram’s parent company, staffers were able to track down an actual person to rectify the problem and reactivate OID, which has offices on Bird Road and is owned by entertainment magnate Emilio Estefan and businessman Lenny Carter.

“There’s still nothing like speaking to a human being on the phone,” Santana said. “We just wish it would have taken sooner to resolve. As you can imagine, we were very pleased. Our followers mean a lot to us; this page is for the community.”