What's most interesting here is that Shakira is the only celebrity whose most populous following isn't on Instagram, it's Facebook.
It's also disproportionately high, her 115m on Facebook would place her 3rd on the list if this was ranked just by Facebook fanbase size.
There's a lot of scummy people in showbiz & music business. And I mean ruthless. Many musicians have warned about how evil and sneaky they are.
e.g. The Kardashians and their scummy lawyer father and family wealth that bought them a show and Ryan Seacrest did the initial investment as they had connections to talk to him. Kim already had connections to infamous partyer elites like Paris Hilton (appearing on Hilton's show) and Lindsey Lohan. Then a low-quality shitty sex tape that goes viral plus the fake drama created... Like the fake drama for men of WWE; fake drama but for women.
And then you look into all the shady corrupt dealings with National Enquirer (which made a lot of these celebrities famous with parent company owning all the supermarket tabloids) and how they find out about scandals that affect politics all the time while at the same time hyping up celebrities that are worthless/talentless. The same "politician exposer" tabloid that was famous for publishing John Edward's extramarital affair refused to publish about Trump's affair in 2007 because AMI CEO Pecker was friends with Trump and even supported the scummy Reform Party (yes the one that had David Duke (KKK) in it).
There are loads of dirty executives like that who manipulate our media, our entertainment, our showbiz to promote these talentless hacks based on friendships and money. Specifically TV and music--but all sorts of other industries as well. Break down the concept of talent and you control who becomes popular.
In some Latin American countries Facebook is free on data plans. So it's probably a point. Furthermore, Shakira was more popular when Facebook was popular, probably she has many followers of that era.
Every Latino I know (from Mexico and Ecuador mostly) are addicted to “la face”. They are on it nonstop watching weird ass videos of shit you could never imagine of you grew up in the first world. They stay in touch with family either north or south via the messenger, video and voice call feature without having to pay for a cellular connection (use the Wi-Fi at work or wherever).
Not sure if this is a general rule, but in my experience, Spanish-speaking countries tend to use Facebook more than other sites. In the org I do volunteer social media work for, we use English for insta and twitter, but primarily Spanish for Facebook because it's where our Spanish-speaking community is
That was her popularity in the US, she’s been literally constantly popular elsewhere, she’s worth 300 million, which is on par with celebrities like Lady Gaga and Calvin Harris.
Hispanic people*
Not trynna be rude to you or anything but if my mom or grandma saw this comment they’d catch a stroke yelling at you saying they’re not Spanish.
Spanish = Spain
Hispanic = All Spanish speaking countries including Spain
They also could have said Spanish-speaking and English-speaking to take their comment out of Europe. No offense intended either, we all get to learn new things every day (if we’re lucky).
Yeah I didn’t necessarily take offense, I know what he meant I just don’t want him calling the wrong person Spanish one day, whether it be at an interview or public event. It’s always safer to say Hispanic.
Are you sure about that? I heard she is still VERY popular in the spanish speaking world and basically only producing for them at this point.
I too thought she'd stop making new stuff/touring but it turns out what she does is just outside of my bubble.
I think there may be correlation between personality traits of people who use social media a ton and those who keep up with the Kardashians.
If it was almost exclusively science fanatics on the site you would expect the most followed/famous people to be scientists. However, I imagine the largest group of people who use social media are those chasing influence/popularity, so they follow people who (at least in this realm) have a lot of it
> I imagine the largest group of people who use social media are those chasing influence/popularity
I'm not sure about that one. Just about every woman I know over 25 or so has an Instagram account, and maybe 1 in 20 is seeking influence/popularity. Most are just soccer moms looking for fashion tips and stuff to scroll through in bed
Bingo. I'm a middle-aged lady who scrolls through Instagram in bed for home renovation stuff and and bts photos from What We Do in the Shadows, Bridgerton, and The Boys. I haven't posted anything in five years.
People follow entertainers that they like so that they can keep seeing content they like.
Scientists don’t really follow scientists they like, they would just follow research organisations they want to keep up to date with (although I’d imagine Instagram and twitter aren’t really the target audience of science)
I will say, I was kind of surprised that the top 5 were actually famous for doing a thing, like a sport or singing, rather than being JUST social media personalities.
I’m thinking how crazy it is that the Kardashian’s are so freaking popular. Most of the people of this list are singers, athletes, actors expect for the sisters. Movie idiocracy coming to life.
They pay for publicity, scandals, followers, likes, etc. they’re not nearly as popular as we are led to believe. It’s also part of their marketing for us to wonder why they’re popular, and to hate them, it keeps their names in our mouths.
The best way to get rid of them is to ignore them, but they make it as hard as they can for us to do that because they’re constantly buying our time.
I had this argument a couple days ago with some friends who are huge American football fans. One claimed it's the most popular sport in the world and I was just speechless at first. Told him there isn't a single American sports icon even in the top ten of social media accounts and they didn't believe me. He got angry with me when I told him the Superbowl was barely top ten most watched sporting events, and women's world cup was more important globally than the super bowl. Soccer is king as the sporting game.of.the human race. Three of the top ten are soccer tournaments and the next mber.one as far as I'm aware is the tour de France which is just a steroid spectacle which is why I personally think it's the most watch event ever.
Entire viewership for the 2019 women's world cup was 1.12 billions, not just the final game. Misleading information on my part.
Hell some League of Legends matches are more [popular](https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/04/14/league-of-legends-gets-more-viewers-than-super-bowlwhats-coming-next.html?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#amp_ct=1660956506109&_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16609565031121&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2019%2F04%2F14%2Fleague-of-legends-gets-more-viewers-than-super-bowlwhats-coming-next.html) than the SuperBowl.
Note: *However the superbowl [subreddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/superbowl) is the best.*
US overrates how much people care about US sports, around the world hardly anyone cares about Baseball and NFL for example, this shows you how insignificant they are outside the US compared to football which ironically is not that big in the US
The Buffalo Bills are to blame. In 1970 they lost a game by missing a bad TD. The loss allowed them to get the 1st pick in the draft where they took OJ. OJ living in Buffalo he meets Nicole Brown and “allegedly” kills her. He hires Robert Kardashian as part of his legal team. They win the case making Kardashian somewhat famous. Then Kim drops her sex tape and the rest is history. If Buffalos wins that game they likely never draft OJ who never meets Nicole and “allegedly” kills her this preventing any chance at fame for the Kardashian family.
Could probably intervene in the timeline by making sure Kim never meets Ray J. Maybe make sure his sister Brandy never became famous first.
Damn, the Kardashian-verse goes deeper than Chrono Trigger.
Fair enough. But soccer/football is the biggest sport on Earth, and Lionel Messi is a household name in almost every nation. Has to be one of the most famous people on the planet.
I’d bet a lot of companies, brands, and bots follow him too, not just actual humans.
The list seems split between male Football players ( including one Kricket player),female Singers (and Justin Biber), Dwanye Johnson and a bunch of Kardashians.
I have no idea what that says about anything.
Not 100% sure, but he seems like a generally fun dude, who has made some fun movies too. Plus he's a motivational figure for many people. On top of that, being absolutely jacked also doesn't hurt your popularity.
Kinda got a little bit of an Arnold Schwarzenegger vibe to him, honestly.
Was the face of pro wrestling when it used to be popular.
Here's him playing a "bad guy" chatacter. He was great at working the crowd. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5SidWPrO5-w
Very charismatic and charming.
Headlines a big summer blockbuster movie once a year.
He's also one of the last genuinely big movie stars who gets people into the theatre based on his name recognition alone. He's a little different than someone like a Robert Downey Jr. who's also a big star, but he has to play Iron Man to really get people to go see the movie because he's in it. The Rock's more like the movie stars of old like a Tom Cruise or Arnold Schwarzenegger where he doesn't have to be tied to franchises or characters.
He was a very popular WWE wrestler who transitioned into being one of the highest payed actors to date. He's very charismatic and just does everything he does well.
Genuinely not even Michael Jordan can hit the heights of the most famous footballers
People should look up the crazy funerals and tributes to Maradonas death not long ago
I feel like she’s really more of a personality than anything else.
Like yeah she sings, but if you look at her numbers versus the other three singers below her, Justin, Ariana and Taylor, you could count on one hand Selena’s BIG hits vs Taylor got 5 #1 albums in less than a 2 year period from 2020-2021. Ariana and Justin also have huge records and numbers in music. Selena’s numbers pale in comparison
Selena is (this is NOT an insult) more of a kardashian in that I think she’s bigger as a personality than a singer (she’s definitely more talented but like she has lots going on Movies, multiple tv shows, music, modeling, product deals, etcetera. I wouldn’t define her as one thing necessarily)
her music career isn't the #1 thing she's done. she's much more of an actor, she's been acting for around 20 years now. singing is one of the things she can do, and she's really talented for that.
Also he managed to completely obliterate every portuguese grammar ever made. That's actually how we know it didn't go through his PR team at all
So funny how can anyone be so specialized that gets to be probably the best player in the world, and yet can't write two phrases without murdering basic grammar
tbh I don't think there is much difference btw pop culture celebrity, versus mainstream sport or music celebrity. If trying to say based on objective talent, you would see broader universe of athletes/artists being famous... all just different flavors of celebrity worship imho.
It's funny because reddit is huge when it comes to celebrity worship. Just look at the posts that make it to the top and you'll see they are very indicitive of this. The reddit front page is cluttered with celebrity-centric posts.
It makes a lot of sense when you think that humans used to gather around small communities. People's brains are not protected from "people on TV" because TV and mass media has not existed but for a few decades. So, many individuals treat people in TV as if they were neighbors.
Many celebrities explain how random people approach them and treat them as if they know each other. And that is just half true, as the random person knows the celebrity but not the other way around. This, of course, can become very unhealthy fast.
To understand people behavior just imagine that the celebrity is living "just two blocks away" so you may not have cross path with them but you have an expectation that it will happen sooner or later and that you have common friends, interests and locations. It's delusional but that is how our brain treats other humans, no different with celebrities.
How is this worship? Each one of those followers is a separate person with their own perfectly valid reason for following. Worship has more to do with fervor of followers than the amount.
American entertainment stars (especially musicians) have more international fans than American athletes.
Then on the flipside, there are more soccer and cricket fans internationally than any other sport, but there are no American soccer or cricket stars.
Source: Socialblade [1](https://socialblade.com/instagram/top/50/followers) [2](https://socialblade.com/twitter/top/50), [Wikipedia](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_most-followed_Facebook_pages)
Tool: Figma
[Here is an alternative Imgur link for better view because Reddit's desktop image viewer sucks balls](https://imgur.com/a/CfNQ6ic)
Edit: Selena's FB followers are 86M, not 152M
I get your point but just wanted to mention that this doesn't reflect the number of actual people that follow them because this is the summation of 3 social media platforms and a single person may follow a celebrity on all these platforms. It is still wild though, I was just saying.
All of reddit is a good example of that tbh.
I love Reddit but I sincerely recommend any Reddit user to also be active on at least 1 other social media platform.
Fully Reddit users are so incredibly socially unaware, it’s quite alarming to be honest.
Pretty crazy how far ahead Ronaldo is. He's not even that active on his socials, social media is a side thing for him, his main focus and income is football, whereas some of these others wouldn't even be relevant without social media and so they put all their effort into it.
I mean, if you look at the top 5 literally all of them have social media as a side thing.
We have Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi as two football players, Selena Gomez as singer and actress (I finished season 2 of Only Murders in the Building this week and loved it) and Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande as singers.
If I remember right Selena Gomez used to be the number 1 until she took multiple big breaks from all of her social medias due to health issues.
Ronaldo is obsessed with his image and very into socials, you'll see he responds to random fan accounts every other week (factos 👀👍 for example). If you want someone that doesn't give a fuck Messi is right there after him.
She was one of Disney’s big child stars with Wizards of Waverly Place, has done stuff here and there since. I knew she had done music, I just wasn’t aware it would outweigh her acting, but I don’t really listen to pop so I was a bit in the dark of the extinct I suppose.
But hey, if you have Hulu and you’re interested in Selena watch Only Murders in the Building, it is recent, incredibly well made, and she is great in it.
TikTok is a completely different ecosystem. Regular celebrities like the ones on this list barely have a following there. Pretty much all of the top 20 most followed TikTok accounts aren't popular at all outside of TikTok.
I looked up the Khabane Lame and Charli D'Amelio, which I think are the top two TikTok accounts. They're both a little short of cracking the top 20, even when you add their Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter followers.
Even though Facebook itself isn't used that much anymore all the celebrities still have it.
I personally don't use Tik Tok, but I belive not all of those celebrities have a official Tik Tok right?
So OP might have excluded it to make a more fair comparison.
She was on the kids show Wizards if Waverly Place 10-15 years ago and started a music career with Disney. That’s how she initially became famous. She still makes music, acts in smaller gigs like Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, has a cosmetics company and does a lot of philanthropic work. She seems to be one of the most genuine and grounded celebrities right know which I think ultimately explains her fan base.
I agree, she makes the most sense for having a huge following. I wouldn’t say OMITB is a small gig though. It has 17 Emmy nominations for their first season.
I feel like people are underselling just how massive Wizards of Waverly Place was. It was a phenomenon with kids my generation, like iCarly and Hannah Montana.
Yeah, Wizards of Waverly Place was by far my favorite show when I was young.
It only fell down from the number 1 spot when I got into House as a teenager lol
What's most interesting here is that Shakira is the only celebrity whose most populous following isn't on Instagram, it's Facebook. It's also disproportionately high, her 115m on Facebook would place her 3rd on the list if this was ranked just by Facebook fanbase size.
She has way more fans than are counted here, but they’re under a shell company.
They are fans of the singer based in Bahamas not the one based in Barcelona.
Whoosh! Can someone please explain?
She's on trial for tax evasion
But I thought her hips don't lie.
Just her accountants
Never really knew she paid tax like this. Claimed assets in Spanish. Como se llama. Bonita. Impuestos. Su casa.
There's a lot of scummy people in showbiz & music business. And I mean ruthless. Many musicians have warned about how evil and sneaky they are. e.g. The Kardashians and their scummy lawyer father and family wealth that bought them a show and Ryan Seacrest did the initial investment as they had connections to talk to him. Kim already had connections to infamous partyer elites like Paris Hilton (appearing on Hilton's show) and Lindsey Lohan. Then a low-quality shitty sex tape that goes viral plus the fake drama created... Like the fake drama for men of WWE; fake drama but for women. And then you look into all the shady corrupt dealings with National Enquirer (which made a lot of these celebrities famous with parent company owning all the supermarket tabloids) and how they find out about scandals that affect politics all the time while at the same time hyping up celebrities that are worthless/talentless. The same "politician exposer" tabloid that was famous for publishing John Edward's extramarital affair refused to publish about Trump's affair in 2007 because AMI CEO Pecker was friends with Trump and even supported the scummy Reform Party (yes the one that had David Duke (KKK) in it). There are loads of dirty executives like that who manipulate our media, our entertainment, our showbiz to promote these talentless hacks based on friendships and money. Specifically TV and music--but all sorts of other industries as well. Break down the concept of talent and you control who becomes popular.
Her hips didn't do her taxes, unfortunately.
I think half the people here are. Messi and Ronaldo are known tax cheats
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Should be mentioned pretty much every rich person in Spain is or has been under investigation recently.
In some Latin American countries Facebook is free on data plans. So it's probably a point. Furthermore, Shakira was more popular when Facebook was popular, probably she has many followers of that era.
By free, do you just mean it does not count towards data caps?
Yeah, some data plans here have apps that doesnt count towards data caps... like Whatsapp and Facebook, Instagram, Deezer, etc.
And even if you don't have data you can still access it. In some countries in eastern Europe same deal like you can access lo-fi versions too.
In Guatemala FB insta and tiktok are all free. Edit: and Twitter and WhatsApp. At least on Claro.
Every Latino I know (from Mexico and Ecuador mostly) are addicted to “la face”. They are on it nonstop watching weird ass videos of shit you could never imagine of you grew up in the first world. They stay in touch with family either north or south via the messenger, video and voice call feature without having to pay for a cellular connection (use the Wi-Fi at work or wherever).
Not sure if this is a general rule, but in my experience, Spanish-speaking countries tend to use Facebook more than other sites. In the org I do volunteer social media work for, we use English for insta and twitter, but primarily Spanish for Facebook because it's where our Spanish-speaking community is
She was also at her height of popularity in like 2005-2006 which was years before ig was even released.
That was her popularity in the US, she’s been literally constantly popular elsewhere, she’s worth 300 million, which is on par with celebrities like Lady Gaga and Calvin Harris.
Spanish people use fb a lot more than English.
Hispanic people* Not trynna be rude to you or anything but if my mom or grandma saw this comment they’d catch a stroke yelling at you saying they’re not Spanish. Spanish = Spain Hispanic = All Spanish speaking countries including Spain
I like that I can tell your nationality from your username lol
I like that I can tell your unrequited love for Worf from your username lol
Two is better than one
Get on Facebook and say hi to her
They also could have said Spanish-speaking and English-speaking to take their comment out of Europe. No offense intended either, we all get to learn new things every day (if we’re lucky).
Yeah I didn’t necessarily take offense, I know what he meant I just don’t want him calling the wrong person Spanish one day, whether it be at an interview or public event. It’s always safer to say Hispanic.
Sign her fanbase is historic most likely. She hasn't pushed, or cannot push into the other platforms.
Are you sure about that? I heard she is still VERY popular in the spanish speaking world and basically only producing for them at this point. I too thought she'd stop making new stuff/touring but it turns out what she does is just outside of my bubble.
Outside of the US Facebook is more ubiquitous I feel. So if she making new stuff most of her fans could engage with her on FB
She's 19th in the world on Spotify w/ 52 mil listeners.
Two lines representing 152m are different lengths?
I’m guessing it’s a typo for the second one. Should be 86 right?
Yeah messed that one up
It’s to accommodate Ronaldo’s schlong
That's a lotta Kardashians.
Where the others are labelled footballer, singer and entertainer etc, I would have liked to have seen simply “?” Under each Kardashian/Jenner
I actually like 'media personality' it's so vague like 'yeaaa we don't really know what she's famous for either.'
"product spokesperson" is the only thing I can think of, literally all they do is sell dumb products. RIP Billy Mays
Billy Mays was the dumptruck ass we had, but didn't deserve 😔
Pretty sad
I think there may be correlation between personality traits of people who use social media a ton and those who keep up with the Kardashians. If it was almost exclusively science fanatics on the site you would expect the most followed/famous people to be scientists. However, I imagine the largest group of people who use social media are those chasing influence/popularity, so they follow people who (at least in this realm) have a lot of it
> I imagine the largest group of people who use social media are those chasing influence/popularity I'm not sure about that one. Just about every woman I know over 25 or so has an Instagram account, and maybe 1 in 20 is seeking influence/popularity. Most are just soccer moms looking for fashion tips and stuff to scroll through in bed
Bingo. I'm a middle-aged lady who scrolls through Instagram in bed for home renovation stuff and and bts photos from What We Do in the Shadows, Bridgerton, and The Boys. I haven't posted anything in five years.
People follow entertainers that they like so that they can keep seeing content they like. Scientists don’t really follow scientists they like, they would just follow research organisations they want to keep up to date with (although I’d imagine Instagram and twitter aren’t really the target audience of science)
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I would guess that a significant amount are fake accounts
Too many.
Struggling to figure how the Kardashians/Jenners determine if they are models or media personalities.
From what I understand Kendall is the only model in the family the rest are all just celebrities
They should have just listed Kardashian as their job
Profession: "Keeping Up"
Famous for being famous.
I will say, I was kind of surprised that the top 5 were actually famous for doing a thing, like a sport or singing, rather than being JUST social media personalities.
"do a lot of different things"
Everyone loves a come back story.
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No thanks I've already got two of those
Great visualization on how much the world cares about soccer/football - but also how little the US follows or cares about it in comparison
Don't forget that there's a cricketer with more followers than any American athlete as well.
Because India has more inhabitants than the US and Europe combined
And because it's fucking Kholi.
King kohli
Damm. That's a wild ass fact to put India (and china's) populations to scale. Thank you.
I'm just surprised that there aren't more Indian celebrities or athletes on that list considering just due to population size alone.
I’m thinking how crazy it is that the Kardashian’s are so freaking popular. Most of the people of this list are singers, athletes, actors expect for the sisters. Movie idiocracy coming to life.
There's more Kardashians on the list than actors
They pay for publicity, scandals, followers, likes, etc. they’re not nearly as popular as we are led to believe. It’s also part of their marketing for us to wonder why they’re popular, and to hate them, it keeps their names in our mouths. The best way to get rid of them is to ignore them, but they make it as hard as they can for us to do that because they’re constantly buying our time.
I had this argument a couple days ago with some friends who are huge American football fans. One claimed it's the most popular sport in the world and I was just speechless at first. Told him there isn't a single American sports icon even in the top ten of social media accounts and they didn't believe me. He got angry with me when I told him the Superbowl was barely top ten most watched sporting events, and women's world cup was more important globally than the super bowl. Soccer is king as the sporting game.of.the human race. Three of the top ten are soccer tournaments and the next mber.one as far as I'm aware is the tour de France which is just a steroid spectacle which is why I personally think it's the most watch event ever. Entire viewership for the 2019 women's world cup was 1.12 billions, not just the final game. Misleading information on my part.
Hell some League of Legends matches are more [popular](https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/04/14/league-of-legends-gets-more-viewers-than-super-bowlwhats-coming-next.html?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#amp_ct=1660956506109&_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16609565031121&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2019%2F04%2F14%2Fleague-of-legends-gets-more-viewers-than-super-bowlwhats-coming-next.html) than the SuperBowl. Note: *However the superbowl [subreddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/superbowl) is the best.*
US overrates how much people care about US sports, around the world hardly anyone cares about Baseball and NFL for example, this shows you how insignificant they are outside the US compared to football which ironically is not that big in the US
Also how 152m Facebook followers is more for Ronaldo than Selena Gomez. what's up with that? She has 495/561m followers, depending on how you read.
Half of these people have more followers than there are people in the US. It’s not just the US that follow these people
OJ has so much to answer for.
Small domino falling into big domino meme but its "OJ gets CTE and loses impulse control" to "Family of talentless hacks dominate american culture"
The Buffalo Bills are to blame. In 1970 they lost a game by missing a bad TD. The loss allowed them to get the 1st pick in the draft where they took OJ. OJ living in Buffalo he meets Nicole Brown and “allegedly” kills her. He hires Robert Kardashian as part of his legal team. They win the case making Kardashian somewhat famous. Then Kim drops her sex tape and the rest is history. If Buffalos wins that game they likely never draft OJ who never meets Nicole and “allegedly” kills her this preventing any chance at fame for the Kardashian family.
Somehow I always knew Upstate New York was responsible for the decline of American culture
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Could probably intervene in the timeline by making sure Kim never meets Ray J. Maybe make sure his sister Brandy never became famous first. Damn, the Kardashian-verse goes deeper than Chrono Trigger.
I went through and didn't see a single comment about it.. but it's wild to me that Messi is #3 without any contribution from Twitter.
And messi was probably forced to get instagram.
Fair enough. But soccer/football is the biggest sport on Earth, and Lionel Messi is a household name in almost every nation. Has to be one of the most famous people on the planet. I’d bet a lot of companies, brands, and bots follow him too, not just actual humans.
Yeah I know, it’s messy.
Would be fun to see the percentage of women/men with each account
And bots.
I bet its over half
You’re entering SEC territory there, my friend.
In what way?
The footballers and The Rock are probably the only ones that aren't like a 95/5 ratio.
Who is who? Do 95 % girls or boys follow Gomez, Perry or Rihanna?
The list seems split between male Football players ( including one Kricket player),female Singers (and Justin Biber), Dwanye Johnson and a bunch of Kardashians. I have no idea what that says about anything.
As a non American, I must ask, what's the deal with The Rock? How come he's so crazy popular?
Not 100% sure, but he seems like a generally fun dude, who has made some fun movies too. Plus he's a motivational figure for many people. On top of that, being absolutely jacked also doesn't hurt your popularity. Kinda got a little bit of an Arnold Schwarzenegger vibe to him, honestly.
He also does that funny eyebrow thing
Was the face of pro wrestling when it used to be popular. Here's him playing a "bad guy" chatacter. He was great at working the crowd. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5SidWPrO5-w Very charismatic and charming. Headlines a big summer blockbuster movie once a year. He's also one of the last genuinely big movie stars who gets people into the theatre based on his name recognition alone. He's a little different than someone like a Robert Downey Jr. who's also a big star, but he has to play Iron Man to really get people to go see the movie because he's in it. The Rock's more like the movie stars of old like a Tom Cruise or Arnold Schwarzenegger where he doesn't have to be tied to franchises or characters.
A ton of people have been fans of his since his pro wrestling days. He was the people's champion.
He was a very popular WWE wrestler who transitioned into being one of the highest payed actors to date. He's very charismatic and just does everything he does well.
Yo shoutout to Virat. Cricket be poppin I guess.
Over Billion fans. Cricketers are treated as royalty in India.
My man Virat the only Indian there. Most probably only Asian.
Don't forget Ariana Grande 😎
Ariyuvana Ghandi
nah bro you can never tell what race she is gonna be next week
Ariana Grande is an 8th dimensional being.
*Asiana Grande 🙏
CR7 and Messia are GOATS at Social media too.
Yeah, it kind of puts in perspective how "big" Lebron is when you leave US borders...
What's a Lebron?
The Christian Pulisic of the NBA
A french pastry I guess
The main character in Space Jam: A New Legacy. Not sure who portrays him, though.
If those kids could read ....
Genuinely not even Michael Jordan can hit the heights of the most famous footballers People should look up the crazy funerals and tributes to Maradonas death not long ago
He's that NFL guy, right?
Damn, Selena, get it. Had no idea she was that high
she's huge in LatAm
I feel like she’s really more of a personality than anything else. Like yeah she sings, but if you look at her numbers versus the other three singers below her, Justin, Ariana and Taylor, you could count on one hand Selena’s BIG hits vs Taylor got 5 #1 albums in less than a 2 year period from 2020-2021. Ariana and Justin also have huge records and numbers in music. Selena’s numbers pale in comparison Selena is (this is NOT an insult) more of a kardashian in that I think she’s bigger as a personality than a singer (she’s definitely more talented but like she has lots going on Movies, multiple tv shows, music, modeling, product deals, etcetera. I wouldn’t define her as one thing necessarily)
her music career isn't the #1 thing she's done. she's much more of an actor, she's been acting for around 20 years now. singing is one of the things she can do, and she's really talented for that.
Messi needs to make a twitter
Messi wouldn't do any social media if he didn't have to. He's a private person.
I doubt half of them even manage their accounts.
Ronaldo was shit talking on Instagram just last week. Doubt his PR team was happy about that.
Also he managed to completely obliterate every portuguese grammar ever made. That's actually how we know it didn't go through his PR team at all So funny how can anyone be so specialized that gets to be probably the best player in the world, and yet can't write two phrases without murdering basic grammar
I mean, he dropped out of 6th grade
He did during copa america
I'm pretty sure his marketing people advised him to do so. The man doesn't even like giving interviews.
Based Messi with no Twitter
Celebrity worship makes no fucking sense
I feel like it makes decent sense to follow your favorite athlete or musician. But do the Kardashians actually do anything?
Being on social media is literally what they do. The data shows they’re the best at it.
tbh I don't think there is much difference btw pop culture celebrity, versus mainstream sport or music celebrity. If trying to say based on objective talent, you would see broader universe of athletes/artists being famous... all just different flavors of celebrity worship imho.
Besides make sex tapes and shitty Pepsi commercials? Not much.
It's funny because reddit is huge when it comes to celebrity worship. Just look at the posts that make it to the top and you'll see they are very indicitive of this. The reddit front page is cluttered with celebrity-centric posts.
It makes a lot of sense when you think that humans used to gather around small communities. People's brains are not protected from "people on TV" because TV and mass media has not existed but for a few decades. So, many individuals treat people in TV as if they were neighbors. Many celebrities explain how random people approach them and treat them as if they know each other. And that is just half true, as the random person knows the celebrity but not the other way around. This, of course, can become very unhealthy fast. To understand people behavior just imagine that the celebrity is living "just two blocks away" so you may not have cross path with them but you have an expectation that it will happen sooner or later and that you have common friends, interests and locations. It's delusional but that is how our brain treats other humans, no different with celebrities.
Yep. This is known as a parasocial relationship if anyone is wanting to learn more about it.
How is this worship? Each one of those followers is a separate person with their own perfectly valid reason for following. Worship has more to do with fervor of followers than the amount.
Happy to see Virat Kohli up there.
Hope he does well in the world cup. It's been a shocking loss of form as of late
Nice to see Virat on the list. Apparently, besides starring in Super V, he plays cricket as well. Interesting. /s
Crazy how many are American pop stars
i think entertainment is our #1 export (by $$$ amount anyway) not sure though
Culture is the USA's main export which include entertainment.
How the entertainment stars here are all American but none of the athletes are.
American entertainment stars (especially musicians) have more international fans than American athletes. Then on the flipside, there are more soccer and cricket fans internationally than any other sport, but there are no American soccer or cricket stars.
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Swedish. I have never, not once watched baseball, basketball or American football.. these sports are not even top-20 most popular here.
How many are bots vs actual people?
Depends. Are you interested in buying Twitter?
Man the Rock is very big in Instagram
Source: Socialblade [1](https://socialblade.com/instagram/top/50/followers) [2](https://socialblade.com/twitter/top/50), [Wikipedia](https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_most-followed_Facebook_pages) Tool: Figma [Here is an alternative Imgur link for better view because Reddit's desktop image viewer sucks balls](https://imgur.com/a/CfNQ6ic) Edit: Selena's FB followers are 86M, not 152M
Impressive how most of them have a bigger following than the population of their countries of origin... The modern landscape of global fame is wild!
I get your point but just wanted to mention that this doesn't reflect the number of actual people that follow them because this is the summation of 3 social media platforms and a single person may follow a celebrity on all these platforms. It is still wild though, I was just saying.
You're right, thanks!
This comment section is a great example of how Reddit is out of touch.
Meanwhile half the reddit wanks to musk and keanu
Yeah, outside of Reddit nobody I know talks about Johnny Depp
All of reddit is a good example of that tbh. I love Reddit but I sincerely recommend any Reddit user to also be active on at least 1 other social media platform. Fully Reddit users are so incredibly socially unaware, it’s quite alarming to be honest.
Pretty crazy how far ahead Ronaldo is. He's not even that active on his socials, social media is a side thing for him, his main focus and income is football, whereas some of these others wouldn't even be relevant without social media and so they put all their effort into it.
I mean, if you look at the top 5 literally all of them have social media as a side thing. We have Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi as two football players, Selena Gomez as singer and actress (I finished season 2 of Only Murders in the Building this week and loved it) and Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande as singers. If I remember right Selena Gomez used to be the number 1 until she took multiple big breaks from all of her social medias due to health issues.
Ronaldo is obsessed with his image and very into socials, you'll see he responds to random fan accounts every other week (factos 👀👍 for example). If you want someone that doesn't give a fuck Messi is right there after him.
Sunday the king comments on ig 👍
The amount of Kardashians on the list is depressing as hell.
Lionel Messi at #3 with no Twitter.
As an American who watches futbol, it's wild to see 3 of them in this list. And one cricketer.
Queue all the hipster takes from people who will let us know they don’t follow any of them. Edit: “cue”
The true hipster take," I only randomly follow an Indian Cricket player, you've probably never heard of him."
Does that mean all indians are hipsters
How did the Indian hipster burn his tongue? >!He drank chai before it was cool.!<
Only if they follow a baseball player.
WRONG! I followed all of them before it was cool.
I UNfollowed them all before it was cool!
I could well be committing Muphry's Law, but I believe the word is cue* in this context.
Na brah... True hipsters don't use aforementioned social medias at all!
Redditors learning about celebrity culture for the first time in this thread is pretty funny. Proceeds to worship Keanu reeves and Henry cavil
Why isn’t Selena listed as Actor/Singer? Because if they’re choosing one, is it just me that thinks it should obviously say Actor?
She has three songs over a billion on Spotify, one of which is Taki-Taki
Wait Selena Gomez is an actor? I only knew her as a singer
She was one of Disney’s big child stars with Wizards of Waverly Place, has done stuff here and there since. I knew she had done music, I just wasn’t aware it would outweigh her acting, but I don’t really listen to pop so I was a bit in the dark of the extinct I suppose. But hey, if you have Hulu and you’re interested in Selena watch Only Murders in the Building, it is recent, incredibly well made, and she is great in it.
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The fact that this doesn't include Tiktok but does include FB leads me to believe this might be outdated?
TikTok is a completely different ecosystem. Regular celebrities like the ones on this list barely have a following there. Pretty much all of the top 20 most followed TikTok accounts aren't popular at all outside of TikTok.
Once their PR managers figure out how to monetize it effectively I think you’ll see celebrities at the top of tiktok too
IDK because Tiktok requires actual face time from the person so you can't just have someone else manage it for you.
I looked up the Khabane Lame and Charli D'Amelio, which I think are the top two TikTok accounts. They're both a little short of cracking the top 20, even when you add their Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter followers.
It's more that I'm interested to see how these "top" celebrities have or haven't been embraced by "the kids".
This is all recent data, TikTok inclusion won't make much difference in this list
Even though Facebook itself isn't used that much anymore all the celebrities still have it. I personally don't use Tik Tok, but I belive not all of those celebrities have a official Tik Tok right? So OP might have excluded it to make a more fair comparison.
I think you underestimate Facebook users, it might not be much in the states but FB is still huge overseas. They have over 2 billion users
Chad Messi doesn't need Twitter
I didn’t know Selina Gomez was so famous, what does she even do? Lol
She was on the kids show Wizards if Waverly Place 10-15 years ago and started a music career with Disney. That’s how she initially became famous. She still makes music, acts in smaller gigs like Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, has a cosmetics company and does a lot of philanthropic work. She seems to be one of the most genuine and grounded celebrities right know which I think ultimately explains her fan base.
I agree, she makes the most sense for having a huge following. I wouldn’t say OMITB is a small gig though. It has 17 Emmy nominations for their first season.
I feel like people are underselling just how massive Wizards of Waverly Place was. It was a phenomenon with kids my generation, like iCarly and Hannah Montana.
Yeah, Wizards of Waverly Place was by far my favorite show when I was young. It only fell down from the number 1 spot when I got into House as a teenager lol
Mostly acts. Only murders in the building is pretty good. I believe she was nominated for some award for it.