Lionel Messi beats an egg on Instagram

In addition to 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 submit on Instagram. The pictures he posted after the Argentine staff 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 record together and get the most liked post on Instagram.”

The egg’s document has stood since early 2019 after it beat out a submit from Kylie Jenner by racking up 19 million likes. At time of writing, it has round 57 million likes.

Above: the most-liked submit on Instagram.

Despite the egg’s long-standing document, its days have 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 have 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 bought 37.5 million likes.) Two other posts on the record have been from the sporting occasion as nicely.

It appears doubtless that, sometime, Messi’s submit will probably be overthrown. But for now, it appears that evidently many, many Instagram customers have joined the crowds of individuals cheering on the victory he helped obtain.