Hashtags on Instagram wont work?

[Ori]

I noticed that my pictures were not getting as many likes as usual and they were just from my followers, I use hashtags all of the time now all of a sudden they won't work or show up in that category. I searched it up on Google and I saw other people are having this same problem but not really a solution to it. I don't use any of the banned hashtags like #instagram #photography etc. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!!