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New recordMessi surpasses the egg post on Instagram
A published egg was supposed to set Kylie Jenner’s world record at the time, successfully. Lionel Messi has now surpassed the record egg with his place in the World Cup.
Messi and the World Cup are “more popular” than the record egg.
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New soccer world champion Lionel Messi has now reached a milestone on Instagram as well. A post by the 35-year-old with photos of himself and the World Cup trophy cheering after winning the final against France on Sunday received more than 56.2 million likes on the social network by Tuesday morning, and the trend is increasing.
With this, Messi overtook the post from the ‘world_record_egg’ account, which was previously the Instagram post with the most likes.
The photo of an egg was posted on January 4, 2019 with the aim of setting a world record. It had received more than 55.9 million likes by Tuesday morning. One use of egg awareness was a mental health campaign.
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