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Egg steals record for most-liked Instagram post from Kylie Jenner

The Associated Press Published Monday, January 14, 2019 11:32AM EST

(Left: Instagram/@world_record_egg, Right: In this Jan. 8, 2017, file photo, Kylie Jenner arrives at the NBCUniversal Golden Globes afterparty at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP, File)

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NEW YORK - Kylie Jenner's birth announcement is no longer the most-liked post on Instagram.

A photo of a simple brown egg has more than 27 million likes, surpassing the 18 million generated last year when Jenner posted a photo of her daughter Stormi.

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Let’s set a world record together and get the most liked post on Instagram. Beating the current world record held by Kylie Jenner (18 million)! We got this �� #LikeTheEgg #EggSoldiers #EggGang

A post shared by EGG GANG �� (@world_record_egg) on Jan 4, 2019 at 9:05am PST

The photo was posted Jan. 4 on the world--record--egg account. The poster aimed to set a record and "get the most liked post on Instagram."

Jenner responded to the egg dethroning her, posting a video on Instagram of her cracking a brown egg over pavement. She wrote: "Take that little egg."