| Jenna Mullins 19. Dezember 2014 – 11:24
Did you survive the great Instagram purge of 2014?
If your follower count went down suddenly, you are not alone. Instagram announced this week that they were doing a huge clean sweep of spam accounts, so any Instagram follower you had that was a bot or tha was inactive has been wiped out, or will be by the end of December. The account for Instagram itself lost over 18,000,000 followers.
“We’re in the process of fixing an issue that incorrectly includes inactive or fake accounts in follower/following lists,” the company wrote on its Help page. “We want to maintain the best possible experience on Instagram, so we do our best to remove spam, fake accounts and other people and posts that don’t follow our Community Guidelines. As we remove these accounts, some people may notice a decrease in their follower/following counts.”
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But the people that were hit the hardest were celebs, with some A-listers on Instagram losing millions and millions of followers. From Justin Bieber to Britney Spears, Instagram Purge ’14 was super rough on the rich and famous. Poor celebrities. They really can’t catch a break, can they?
Here are how many followers your favorite stars lost this week, according to data pulled by Zach Allia. We used sad GIFs so you can adequately feel their social media pain:
1. Justin Bieber
Followers lost: 3,538,228
2. Ariana Grande
Followers lost: 1,529,206
3. Kim Kardashian
Followers lost: 1,300,963
4. Rihanna
Followers lost: 1,159,864
5. Selena Gomez
Followers lost: 1,116,032
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6. Kendall Jenner
Followers lost: 906,897
7. Beyonce
Followers lost: 831,971
8. Harry Styles
Followers lost: 819,775
9. Niall Horan
Followers lost: 748,703
10. Taylor Swift
Followers lost: 725,379
11.Miley Cyrus
Followers lost: 711,898
12. Kourtney Kardashian
Followers lost: 620,283
13. Nicki Minaj
Followers lost: 485,299
14. Demi Lovato
Followers lost: 428,813
15. Channing Tatum
Followers lost: 346,231
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16. Lucy Hale
Followers lost: 310,560
17. Katy Perry
Followers lost: 290,570
18. Justin Timberlake
Followers lost: 242,740
19. Scott Disick
Followers lost: 230,201
20. Kris Jenner
Followers lost: 216,169
21. Lauren Conrad
Followers lost: 165,667
22. Britney Spears
Followers lost: 164,897
23. Zac Efron
Followers lost: 147,417
24.Nina Dobrev
Followers lost: 135,480
25. Jennifer Lopez
Followers lost: 133,158
Never forget where you were during #InstagramPurge2014.
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