The mysterious story of Instagram pgtalal, which makes widgets instantly damaged, has gone viral in the last few weeks. The other day, a blogger from the UK told me what it was and how it all worked.
If a user opens stories in the @pgtalal account from an Android phone or tablet, he sees that confetti is spreading with music. But if you open the story from an iOS device, everything will be bad. Instead of a beautiful animation – just a line of text in Arabic on a gray background, and then the widget will freeze and turn into a “brick”. Only reinstalling will help bring it back to life. Here’s how it works:
YouTuber Mrwhosetheboss, whose real name is Arun Maini, learned ananayarora from an intern programmer at Apple about the secret of killer stories. Using an HTTP proxy, the author changes the width and height of the elements of the Stories user interface. Only when you open the story does the app realize that it’s the wrong size. This is what caused the error in Instagram for iOS.
In addition, the blogger went further and found out who is behind the stories that break the phones. Arun contacted the owner of the @pgtalal account, who turned out to be a 14-year-old teenager.
The boy admitted that he was just bored because of the quarantine and decided to take it to the owners of the iPhone. But it didn’t take long for Instagram users to fix it – the social network fixed all the mistakes and now the joker’s numbers are no longer a problem.
Translation: BLIC
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