On January 4th, an account with the name World_Record_Egg posted a picture of... well, and egg that asked users to like it, share it, and get it to over 18 million likes. This would make it the most liked picture on Instagram ever, taking Kylie Jenner's spot in #1.

The movement was slow, a week in there were less than 2 million likes. However, the second weekend of the posts existence, things took off. Numbers began to climb rapidly. On Sunday, refreshing the account would show it climbing at tens of thousands of likes every second. Excitement grew and grew and grew until that Sunday night, the mission was accomplished, the eagle had landed, the bag was secured. The record was beaten.

The likes, however, did not stop coming. 19 million likes would have put the post well ahead of Kylie. 20 million would have been more than enough to solidify the record for quite a while. However, the internet did not stop there. As of right now, the post is at 46.7 million likes, and is still going up ever so slowly.

Many people consider this stupid. It is just some dumb stunt for clout. It's a troll. It's a meme. Sure, it could be considered all of these things, but it could be seen as so much more. The way I see it. This egg is a place where anybody can come together and support something. People from all walks of life came out to support this post. Young and old. Rich and poor. Famous and obscure. People of all races, religions, and political leanings. The egg was able to unify in an increasingly polarizing world, and that is something that is more than just a meme.

The amount of support behind this egg proves something. That people can come together. Even if it for something as simple as an Instagram post about an egg, it demonstrates common ground between people who might see agreement with each other as impossible. It gives hope that maybe we aren't as doomed as we thought. Our world isn't as polarized as we might think. Quite frankly, it shows that people aren't as different as we think they are... or at least the people on Instagram aren't.

So go ahead, like the egg. Go see for yourself who in your life has liked it. See for yourself if the kid who you hated in highschool, or the cousin who you thought you had nothing in common with, or that kid in your dorm who you always have awkward encounters with in the bathroom, see if they liked the egg too. Show yourself that the people who you originally thought were so totally from you, actually might not be so different after all.