Lionel Messi beats the Instagram egg
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The egg held the record for the most-liked Instagram post for nearly four years, taking the crown from Kylie Jenner. Image: Marcelo Endelli (Getty Images), Pineapple Studio (Shutterstock)
At the end of the World Cup, Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi took home more than just the title trophy. Messi’s Instagram post celebrating the team’s win is now the most-liked Instagram post in history.
“I’ve dreamed it so many times, I wanted it so badly that I still haven’t fallen, I can’t believe it…” Messi wrote in the caption, machine-translated from Spanish by Gizmodo. “Thank you to my family, to everyone who supports me and also to everyone who believed in us. We show once again that if we fight together and united, the Argentines are capable of achieving what we set out to do.”
The post has well over 69 million likes as of the writing of this article, crowning it the most popular photo in Instagram history. With 406 million followers, Lionel Messi is also the third most followed Instagram account (behind the platform’s own account and fellow footballer Cristiano Ronaldo). Now that Messi has the title of the most popular post on the social media platform, he has removed the title from the previously most popular post, which was a stock photo of an ice cream cone. yes, an egg
The world record egg broke on January 4, 2019, when the account posted a stock image of an egg to Instagram to beat Kylie Jenner’s world record as the most-liked Instagram post — at the time, Jenner’s post was the most-liked me with 18 million likes. “Let’s set a world record together and get the post with the most likes on Instagram,” read the caption of the ice cream. “Beating Kylie Jenner’s current world record (18 million)! We have that.”
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The picture of the egg broke Jenner’s record just over a week after posting his selfie, according to an Engadget article at the time. The egg did not immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment.
