/ 22 December 2022

Messi beats the Insta egg

Image source: Unsplash
Image source: Unsplash

Back in 2019, a stock image of an egg was posted on Instagram in an attempt to dethrone Kylie Jenner’s baby announcement as the social media platform’s most-liked post of all time. It succeeded after gaining a whopping 35 million likes in just a day – but now the egg has been beaten… The egg currently has 55.7 million Instagram likes, but it’s been cracked with a series of victory shots posted by football GOAT Lionel Messi after Argentina’s World Cup Final win on Monday morning that gained 65 million likes. Turns out more Instagram users prefer football to eggs… It’s the latest of many records Messi claimed during his World Cup campaign, according to the Guinness World Records. Note: it’s also much more pleasant than some of the egg-related world records we’ve come across…

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