Taylor Swift, Cristiano Ronaldo lose millions of Instagram followers overnight

[Brownie2019]

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Instagram’s top celebrities, including Taylor Swift, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Kylie Jenner, woke up to a shocking drop in followers on May 7th. Instagram wiped out millions of fake, bot, and “inactive” accounts in what netizens described as the "Great Purge of 2026".
Key takeaways:
Instagram deleted millions of fake and inactive accounts in the "Great Purge of 2026."
Kylie Jenner lost 15 million followers, Cristiano Ronaldo 7 million, Taylor Swift 5 million.
Even private accounts with verified followers saw unexpected drops.
The mass follower plunge comes after Instagram’s parent company, Meta, decided to clean up spam, fake, inactive accounts, and "non-organic" followers.

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[nickstar1]

It’s about time Meta cleaned up all those scamming parasites that feed off celebrities’ comment sections to push scams and spam. Hopefully, Meta tracked down their real accounts through device IDs and dealt with every single one of them. I’d love to ban and troll the scammers on Meta’s platform; if only I had access, it would honestly be my entertainment.

 

[Zero Knowledge]

It's just toxic, the whole lot of them social media are just toxic. It started out so innocent networking with people @ university but has turned into a evil monster.

You take the greatest tool of the 21st century (the internet) and ruin in by allowing scammers, predators, crooks and criminals rule over it. Humanity huh?

 

[Kwan ST]

 

[stonjean633]

The Great Purge of 2026 - I love the name.

 

[Trident]

This is incredibly sad.

 

[monkeylove]

They might end up requiring ID verification for all accounts, which ironically is what governments also want.

 

[Sorrento]

As I don't use Instagram & follow no one ts not a great issue & a storm in a tea /coffee cup

 

[Zero Knowledge]

As I don't use Instagram & follow no one ts not a great issue & a storm in a tea /coffee cup

But how will know about awesome influencer health trends like Ozempic & Peptides.