Along with a World Cup and a full set of other soccer (aka football) awards, Lionel Messi has taken one other crown: the particular person with the most-liked publish on Instagram. The pictures he posted after the Argentine workforce gained the 2022 males’s World Cup have racked up virtually 64 million likes. That’s sufficient to beat the previous record-holder, a inventory photograph of an egg on a white background with a caption that begins, “Let’s set a world file collectively and get probably the most appreciated publish on Instagram.”
The egg’s file has stood since early 2019 after it beat out a publish from Kylie Jenner by racking up 19 million likes. At time of writing, it has round 57 million likes.
Above: the most-liked publish on Instagram.
Regardless of the egg’s long-standing file, its days had been clearly numbered — the record of the highest 20 most-liked posts on Instagram has been dominated by Messi and different footballers. Messi holds eight spots on the record, seven of which had been posted earlier than, throughout, and after this yr’s World Cup. (Personally, my favorites are those of him on a plane with the trophy, which garnered 37 million likes, and in bed with the trophy, which acquired 37.5 million likes.) Two other posts on the record had been from the sporting occasion as effectively.
It appears probably that, sometime, Messi’s publish shall be overthrown. However for now, it appears that evidently many, many Instagram customers have joined the crowds of individuals cheering on the victory he helped obtain.