I've mentioned this before, where I had updated my game, but it wasn't showing up in the "Recent" tab. The answer I was given was that Itch.io manually approves the game for its appearance in the "Recent" tab after an update, to prevent people from pretending to have updated their game and always being in the "Recent" tab. The problem is that in my case, my game was actually updated, and it's been almost two days since the update was released, and I haven't received approval yet.

Someone might even come along and say, "But your request is probably still in the queue, probably not even reviewed yet." And okay, you might be right, but what's with the queue where my game, which was updated almost two days ago, wasn't approved, but another game, which was updated an hour ago, was? (I won't name names, but if you check, you'll see it's true.)

Now comes my question. Does Itch.io have some kind of whitelist, like: "Developers we don't need to approve because they're trustworthy" or something? Because I don't see any other reason for this kind of thing to happen.
And if that's the case, isn't it unfair to the developer just starting out, working on their game, updating it, only to receive no help promoting it? After all, no one, except for those on my Patreon and Discord, knows the game has been updated.
I have 280 followers on Itch.io, and since the update came out, only 240 people have downloaded it. 

I just need someone to confirm for me whether this "Whitelist" theory is true or not. And if it isn't, then what's going on? That already helps me a lot.