Cristiano Ronaldo became the first person to accumulate 500 million followers on Instagram, just days after participating in a popular advertisement alongside rival Lionel Messi.
According to an Instagram spokesperson cited by the Bloomberg Línea website, only the profile of the social network itself has more followers than the star, with 569 million followers. Messi is the second personality with the largest audience on the platform, with 376 million followers. Just below, comes the socialite Kim Kardashian (333 million).
Star of the Portuguese national team, Ronaldo is in Qatar to play in his likely last Cup. On Friday (19), he starred, alongside Messi, in an advertisement for the luxury brand Louis Vuitton. In the piece, players play chess while leaning on a branded suitcase. “Victory is a state of mind. A long tradition of briefcase making,” reads the ad text.
Shared both on company profiles and on player accounts, the ad reverberated across networks.
“Can we call this photo the best ever?” Asked the Twitter profile of Guinness World Records, a world reference in record recognition. The post plays with the fact that the two stars competed for the place of GOAT (best of all time) among fans.
Netizens point out, however, that the “photo of the year” may have been a montage.
Profiles specializing in chess also began to reveal details in the photo, such as the fact that the arrangement of the pieces imitated the game of two great rivals in the world of chess
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