You Ain't Real: What Music Stars Lost in the Instagram Purge
The number of casualties in the aftermath of the clean up.
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Beyoncé, @beyonce - You ain't real. That's what Instagram said to millions of spam accounts. After the social media site did a purge of its system, the data collected showed many artists lost more than the rest of us, so let's talk numbers.Beyoncé has the realest stans. Her follower count remained nearly flawless, losing the second least amount of followers, only 800,000.(Photo: Beyonce via Instagram)
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Justin Bieber, @justinbieber - One less lonely girl no more. None of the Bieb’s ballads could save the 3.5 million followers he lost on Thursday from being wiped off his account. If we’re going by quantity, Bieber beat out the rest by losing the most.(Photo: Justin Bieber via Instagram)
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Rihanna, @badgalriri - Although Rihanna just recently rekindled her relationship with the photo sharing app, she already had a lot to lose. Over 1.1 million of her followers weren’t real soldiers of RiRi’s Navy.(Photo: Rihanna via Instagram)
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Ariana Grande, @arianagrande - The purge delivered a clear message to 1.5 million of Ariana Grande’s followers: IDFWU. Grande didn’t seem phased by it, showing off her new darker hair to the rest of the real Arianators.(Photo: Ariana Grande via Instagram)
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Diddy, @iamdiddy - Diddy has over 1 million fake accounts he can no longer promote to. He dropped from having over 4.6 million followers to 3.6 during the purge.(Photo: Diddy via Instagram)
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Tyga, @kinggoldchains - Tyga shared his shirtless Instagram photo to 2.1 million followers less than he would have yesterday. (Photo: Tyga via Instagram)
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Akon, @akon - While Justin Bieber had the most amount of followers uncovered as spammers, it was Akon whose percentage loss was the wildest. He went from having over 4.3 million to now having 1.9 million, losing a whopping 56% of his followers in the purge. (Photo: Akon via Instagram)
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Bruno Mars, @brunomars - Bruno Mars didn't fare much worse than Beyoncé, losing close to 900,000 followers. Based on his amount of followers though, that ended up being a little over a 23% loss. (Photo: Bruno Mars via Instagram)
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Nicki Minaj, @nickiminaj - Barbies aren’t fake. Nicki Minaj’s followers proved it when her numbers went least affected by the sudden spam wipeout, losing only a little less than 500,000. All her Barbs keep it real. (Photo by: Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)