This Photo Of An Egg Posted 3 Years Ago Is Still The Most-liked Image On Instagram With 55.5 Million Likes
The photo of the hen's egg was posted on Instagram on January 4, 2019. The page does not have any other photos, though one can view two videos in the video section.
The internet is full of bizarre things that we do not understand and one of those things was the photo of an egg that was posted three years ago. It is still the most-liked picture on Instagram, Guinness World Records said.
The unusual photo has 55.5 million likes and over 3.4 million comments.
"The World Record Egg was posted three years ago today and is STILL the most liked picture on Instagram with 55.5 million likes!" Guinness World Records said on Twitter.
Did you know that the Instagram account 'world_record_egg' which shared the picture has only one post - the photo of the egg.
The World Record Egg was posted three years ago today and is STILL the most liked picture on Instagram with 55.5 million likes!https://t.co/iUBaYADG08
¡ª Guinness World Records (@GWR) January 4, 2022
The page does not have any other photos, though one can view two videos in the video section. Both the videos were posted in 2020. The account has 4.8 million followers.
The photo of the hen's egg was posted on Instagram on January 4, 2019, with the caption, "Let's set a world record together and get the most liked post on Instagram. Beating the current world record held by Kylie Jenner (18 million)! We got this."
After ten days, on January 14, 2019, the picture surpassed Kylie's total and reached 30.5 million likes. Kylie had set the record in February 2018 when she posted of her newborn daughter, Stormi, on Instagram.
The photo had more than 18 million likes at the time. Responding to the record, the Egg Gang anonymous account had posted on its Instagram stories, "This is madness. What a time to be alive. Thank you so much for all of your support and messages. I'm gonna try and get back to as many of you as possible. But for now, I need to sleep. It doesn't end here though, we're only just getting started. #EggGang Mic drop."
Netizens were amazed to know that the egg still holds the record of the most-liked Instagram post.
One user said, "Like seriously???" Another wrote, "Q: ¡®How do you like your eggs? A: ¡®Famous.¡¯"
A third user joked, "Kohi suna do yaar ye ande ka funda." Yet another added, "I don¡¯t know if I feel sad about 55.5 million likings an image of an egg or happy because the photo of an egg broke the previous record."
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