Lionel Messi Beats the Instagram Egg

As the World Cup involves a detailed, Argentine soccer participant Lionel Messi took residence extra than simply the titular trophy. Messi’s Instagram submit celebrating the crew’s win is now the most-liked Instagram post in historical past.

“I dreamed it so many times, I wanted it so much that I still haven’t fallen, I can’t believe it…” Messi wrote within the caption, which was machine-translated from Spanish by Gizmodo. “Thank you very much to my family, to all who support me and also to all who believed in us. We demonstrate once again that Argentines when we fight together and united we are capable of achieving what we set out to do.”

The submit has effectively over 69 million likes on the time of writing this text, crowning it the most-liked picture in Instagram historical past. With 406 million followers, Lionel Messi can also be the third most adopted Instagram account (behind the platform’s personal account and fellow footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, respectively). Now that Messi holds the title of most-liked submit on the social media platform, he has taken the title away from the beforehand most-liked submit, which was a inventory picture of an egg. Yes, an egg.

World Record Egg rose to prominence on January 4, 2019, when the account posted a stock image of an egg to Instagram in a bid to beat Kylie Jenner’s world document because the most-liked Instagram submit—at the moment, Jenner’s submit was the most-liked with 18 million likes. “Let’s set a world record together and get the most liked post on Instagram,” the egg’s caption learn. “Beating the current world record held by Kylie Jenner (18 million)! We got this.”

The picture of the egg broke Jenner’s document a little bit over per week after posting its self-portrait, in response to an article from Engadget on the time. The egg didn’t instantly reply to Gizmodo’s request for remark.