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Recode Daily: The bizarre story of the most popular photo on Instagram: An egg
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| Jan 15, 2019, 8:56am EST
| By Recode Staff
Posted on 01/15/2019 10:45:49 AM PST by Red Badger
A picture of a brown speckled egg is officially more popular than every other picture ever posted to Instagram. The photo was posted just 10 days ago, but the Instagram account that posted the egg picture, @world_record_egg, inexplicably has 4.5 million followers despite posting just this one — yes one — photo. The account’s owner is still anonymous but appears to be sitting on a gold mine. It seems possible that @world_record_egg will sell a sponsored post to a brand hoping to ride the bizarre popularity wave that the egg has created over the past 24 hours to get in front of the account’s millions of followers. [Kurt Wagner / Recode]
https://www.instagram.com/world_record_egg/?hl=en
TOPICS: Agriculture; Food; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: egg
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To: Red Badger
The Incredible, Edible Egg.
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posted on
01/15/2019 10:53:41 AM PST
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SMGFan
To: SMGFan
The Egg and I.........................
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posted on
01/15/2019 10:56:02 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
Is this a real sensation, or just another Shell Game?
To: lee martell
It’s cracked up in any case.....................
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posted on
01/15/2019 11:00:25 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
Eggactly what I’ve been looking for.
To: Red Badger
If Orange Man was an Egg?
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01/15/2019 11:01:42 AM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
To: Red Badger
I think I read it dethroned Kylie Jenner as having the most liked photo on Instagram. So I say good for the egg!
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posted on
01/15/2019 11:03:01 AM PST
by
pnz1
(#IMNOTWITHHER)
To: Red Badger
but the Instagram account that posted the egg picture, @world_record_egg, inexplicably has 4.5 million followers... ...who don't want to be unequally yolked together with unbelievers.
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posted on
01/15/2019 11:08:38 AM PST
by
Ezekiel
(All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
To: pnz1
“Omelette you finish!” Kanye West
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posted on
01/15/2019 11:18:52 AM PST
by
beelzepug
(OCD and proud of it!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
01/15/2019 11:19:52 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Red Badger
When the page loaded, I only saw the upper quarter of the image, and thought “Hey! Why is my picture in here?”
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posted on
01/15/2019 11:25:49 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
01/15/2019 11:27:16 AM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Red Badger; Lazamataz; xsmommy
Funny, but I don’t get the yolk.
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posted on
01/15/2019 11:38:41 AM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
To: rlmorel
>>>When the page loaded, I only saw the upper quarter of the image, and thought “Hey! Why is my picture in here?”<<<
Turn it around, it might still be you.
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posted on
01/15/2019 11:40:33 AM PST
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Pilgrim's Progress
(http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
To: Red Badger
I can see the Virgin Mary
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posted on
01/15/2019 11:42:19 AM PST
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SGCOS
To: Red Badger
That was the before picture. This is after:
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posted on
01/15/2019 11:50:46 AM PST
by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: SGCOS
Stare at anything long enough and you eventually will................
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posted on
01/15/2019 11:50:54 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Pilgrim's Progress
Well, my name is spelled the same forwards and backwards...:)
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01/15/2019 1:30:14 PM PST
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rlmorel
(Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
To: Red Badger
Sex sells, it’s popular because it’s nude.
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01/15/2019 1:32:57 PM PST
by
1Old Pro
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