World Record Breaking Instagram Egg.

By: Lucas Ballard

January 18th, 2019 - Greenville, New York News

On January 4th, 2019, an Instagram account scrambled to the internet to attempt breaking an Instagram world record of the most liked photo post on Instagram. The photo was of an egg with a white background. On January 13th, 2019, the egg officially broke the previous record-holding most liked post on Instagram. The account goes by the name @world_record_egg, and currently has 7.7 million followers. As of 2:18 pm on January 18th, 2019, the post has 48,484,085 likes. This breaks the previous most liked photo on Instagram, posted by Kylie Jenner (@kyliejenner) on February 6th, 2018, which has 18,636,836 likes. Lots of people started putting the post of the egg on their story so other people could view the story and give the post more likes. This sparked a huge chain reaction which ultimately ended up setting the world record for the most liked post on Instagram. The record-breaking egg has sparked a huge talk on the internet on how a stock picture of an egg got more than double the amount of likes of a Hollywood celebrities newborn child.