Meta glasses-wearing creepers are in for a rude awakening as Instagram begins deactivating so-called prankster accounts that harass and secretly record unsuspecting people using the controversial smart glasses.

The announcement came from the head of Instagram himself, Adam Mosseri, during an Instagram Stories Q&A last week, according to a new report Thursday by Business Insider.

Responding to a question, Mosseri told the viewer the platform will remove content that harasses people, specifically singling out “prank and pickup videos” filmed with Meta's AI-powered glasses, the news outlet said.

"If you're posting content that is taking advantage of people and harassing them... we're going to take the content down,"

Mosseri said.

"We don't want people to be surreptitiously taking videos of other people and harassing them and then posting them on our platform. So we're trying to fight that every way we can," the Instagram chief said.

Mosseri also said creators who repeatedly violate the rules risk losing their accounts.

Two million-follower accounts disappear

A Meta spokesperson apparently doubled down on the company’s “Bullying and Harassment” policy on Thursday, which states:

"We do not allow bullying and harassment on our platform... We remove content that violates our policies and disable the accounts of people who repeatedly break our rules."

The spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider that at least two Instagram prankster accounts had been removed for violating the rules and posting harassing content filmed with the AI glasses.

The unidentified accounts were said to have more than 1 million followers each.

Notably, two Instagram accounts known for their pickup artist-style videos filmed with Meta glasses – @itspolokid and @rizzzcam – were mentioned in a WIRED report depicting the rise of so-called "Meta creeps” back in March.

As of Thursday, Cybernews can confirm the two accounts no longer appear on the platform.

Meta, which also owns Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads, did not mention if it would begin banning Meta glasses pranksters on its other social media platforms.

Privacy concerns continue to mount

The move follows months of growing backlash over creators secretly recording strangers in public and mocking them while wearing the Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

Some have even begun to refer to the Meta smart glasses as “pervert glasses.”

In fact, some social media users have said they forgo wearing the glasses in public for fear of being labeled with the unflattering moniker.

But that’s not the only privacy controversy plaguing the Zuckerberg-owned company.

Meta was forced to update its AI glasses policy earlier this month after discovering that users were going to extreme lengths to modify the eyewear’s built-in privacy light. – designed to alert nearby people when the wearer is recording or taking photos.

Meta discovered hundreds of Ray-Ban owners across the US actually paying underground technicians to drill out the privacy light by hand – or simply modifying the indicator light themselves.

Now, Meta glasses users found tampering with the privacy light in any way will lose access to the glasses’ software and camera features.

Ironically, the privacy crackdown came just days after a leaked report revealed Meta was already working on next-generation AI glasses that could record users' surroundings without any visible warning light.