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She’s one of the biggest celebrities in the world, but Kylie Jenner’s photo has just been overtaken - by an egg.

In a bizarre turn of events, the image of an egg has become the most liked image on Instagram.

The image was posted by account world-record-egg on 4 January, and has raked in over 25 million likes - 7 million more than Jenner’s image.

A caption with the image read: “Let’s set a world record together and get the most liked post on Instagram.

The image has raked in over 25 million likes  Photo:Courtesy

"Beating the current world record held by Kylie Jenner (18 million)! We got this.”

Previously, the most liked image on Instagram was Jenner’s announcement that she'd had a baby, Stormi.

Thankfully, it seems that Jenner has taken the news pretty well.

In response, she posted a video on Instagram, showing her cracking an egg on the ground, captioned: "Kylie when she sees the world record egg account.”

We’re slightly baffled as to how, or why, the egg picture has attracted so many likes.

In October, we reported about a strange new Instagram trend, in which users post the same photo of a dull object every day.

Speaking to The Atlantic, a teen called Joey, whose account posts the same image of a cartoon cow every day, said: “If people see an account that is posting a toaster, for example, every day for no real reason, they see it as some ironic and funny thing.”

It's unclear if the egg popularity is linked to this trend - but we must admit it's a pretty egg-cellent stunt...