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Social media is the intersection of tech and culture, and Instagram happens to be the fastest-growing social media site at the moment with more than 500+ million users.

Here is the follower list of the most popular Instagrams on the planet and my impressions of what makes them effective. Now obviously you have to be pretty famous to be one of the 10 most-followed people on Instagram. The list is updated on 22th October 2016.

1. Instagram

195,435,090 followers
Own your turf and don’t overthink it. You’re a person not a brand, unless you’re a brand marketer in which case take all of this advice to heart.

2. Selena Gomez

101,970,851 followers
Selena’s lesson to the world is to look good all the time and have fun while you’re doing it. Thanks Selena.

3. Taylor Swift

92,444,032 followers
It’s important to show who you ride with. Taylor uploads posts with a bunch of fellow celebrities which enhance her street cred and the reputations of those she’s pictured with.

4. Beyonce

86,905,267 followers
Beyonce has a very normal Instagram. It’s just that her life looks like it rocks, so it comes off a lot more awesome than ours do.

5. Ariana Grande

86,817,808 followers
Ariana engages with her fans really well and reposts fan’s pictures and responds to them. She also posts a lot of downloaded Snapchat videos as Instagrams, which I kind of find odd but whatever.

6. Kim Kardashian

85,637,229 followers
The Kardashians really are insane. They have their own apps, they upload tons of photos every day, they post posts of them posting posts. You can’t just chalk up the fact that they all have some of the most massive followings due to them just being who they are. Instagram was made for the type of culture Kim Kardashian embodies: big visual moments on display.

7. Cristiano Ronaldo

79,905,974 followers
Be honest. He’s one of the most famous football players in the world and he uses his Instagram mostly to show what he does, which is a lot of practice and working out.

8. Justin Bieber

77,865,420 followers
Justin Bieber gets an unbelievably higher amount of likes than almost anyone on this list. If you can cultivate a following as involved as he has, run for the hills.

9. Kylie Jenner

77,111,543 followers
I really can’t talk about the Kardashian clan this seriously anymore, just click to the next one please.

10. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

68,777,594 followers
Nice guys win sometimes. Nobody’s Instagram leaves you with a better impression of the person than The Rock’s. He takes a lot of selfie videos just engaging with his followers and he tends to show off a lot of fan art.

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Have you ever heard of the traditional American saying ‘Different Strokes for Different Folks’? Well, diversity is what makes up this world, and of course human tendency always lets us do things differently. Whether or not we are accustomed to, many weird things happen in the world. If you are among those people who have been raised in the typical western household, remember, some of the cultures from around the world must seem pretty bizarre to you. In this article, we are gonna bring together the top 10 weird cultures exist till date around the world. If you try to delve deeper into this, what you will find is there’s almost no end to the number of weird things. If you love reading creepy things, you will definitely enjoy this top 10 list of jaw dropping cultures from around the globe. Here is how it goes:

Monkey Buffet Festival

Here’s the buffet festival for Monkeys in the province Lopburi, Thailand. Well, Monkey Buffet Festival is described as one of the strangest festivals that still exist in the world. This is a fun festival with a difference making Thailand a unique destination for tourists. People set up tables in the downtown area and the load them up with some fruits, flowers, cake and candy. All the monkeys are attracted by this food and hop all over the tables entertaining the views. Do you really wonder who the genius behind the annual Monkey Buffet Festival is? Well, for this we have a man by the name of Yongyuth Kitwattananusont to thank who was hotelier by trade. With the assistance and sponsorship of Tourism Authority of Thailand, he inaugurated Monkey Buffet Festival in 1989. It has now grown to Tourism Festival and thousands of tourists visit Thailand to attend festival every year. If you happen to visit Thailand during November, don’t miss this unusual festival of Monkey Buffet. Monkey Buffet Festival falls on 25th of November every year.

Walking Dead

Walking Dead? Isn’t it more than weird things guys? Actually this is for fearless poeple. As funerals sometimes can be costly and intricate ceremonies, some families can’t afford an initial proper burial. As a result, they place the dead body in a temporary coffin. And when they are able to maintain the fund, the corpse is raised from the dead and walks to its new resting place. Afterlife is an important part of the religious beliefs of Torajah people.

El Colacho Baby Jumping

This is another of unusual traditions that exists in the world. The residents of Spain have been taking part in this weird culture called El Colacho since 1620. El Colacho means baby jumping. Originally El Colacho was organized to keep the Devils away. In this festival, infants are laid on the mattresses in the street after the heavy crowds gather to watch. The jumpers wear the traditional costumes to look like the Devils. However, sometimes injuries occur during the jump, this festival is still getting constant popularity in Spain.

Living with the Dead

Can you imagine yourself living with dead bodies? Doesn’t it sound so weird? But, it’s very common practice for some ethnic groups in Indonesia to wrap the deceased up in special garbs and keep it safe in the house they live. It is believed that the soul of their loved ones will be preserved until burial.

Kidnapping the Bride

It sounds illegal, isn’t it? But the Romani have carried out this insanely criminal tradition for centuries. This tradition of snatching the bride from under the nose of groom and guests with the wedding party in full swing is still getting massive popularity in the Romanian capital. Some friends of the groom decide to kidnap the bride. The ransom is all about few bottles of whisky or perhaps something more romantic. The guys who kidnap the bride negotiate via phone. This tradition is harmless and is celebrated as a risqué fun to nuptials.

Kanamara Matsuri of Japan

Kanamara Matsuri is The Festival of Steel Penis which takes place on the first Sunday of April each year. Japanese people celebrate fertility by holding the giant wooden phallus. They hoist that phallus into the air and then march across the town. It is believed that this celebration brings about regenerative abilities on the local crops and also ensures the fertility for everyone. It may appear to be an outlandish display of sexuality in public places, but many would argue that the openness of Kanamara Matsuri is healthy one which celebrated the ability to reproduce. During this festival, many Japanese go out with their children and happy go about giving them penis lollipop without sexualizing it in any way. Anyway, it will definitely astound you all knowing that there’s actually an entire festival in Japan dedicated to Penis.

Hanging Coffins in China

You can witness the countless suspended artifacts and occult phenomena on the chillingly steep cliffs along Yangtze River, China. People of China, some known as Toraja follow this weird culture wherein they burry their family members and hang them over some cliffs after death. You can observe many suspended coffins from the bottom of the cliff. Coffins are generally hung 33 to 164 feet high and some even as high as 328 feet above the ground. It is still not known for sure how the coffins were placed at such great heights. Records of hanging coffins date back almost 2000 years. The practices of hanging coffin burial also took place in some parts of Philippines and Indonesia too.

Tossing the Babies

Doesn’t it sound weird even when you hear the phrase ‘Baby Tossing’? But it’s a common practice for the people in Solapur village (situated in Maharashtra state of India) to toss newborn babies off from the terrace of 50 foot tower. There are people at the foot of the tower holding sheets to catch the baby safely. It is believed that this gives their children good luck, long and healthy life, and moreover, they will grow smart.
2. Carrying pregnant women over coal
carrying pregnant woman over coal
Here’s the snippet of weird Chinese culture according to which a husband should carry his bride over a pan of burning coals before entering their home for the very first time. Myth says that this strange custom is performed to ensure she will have an easy and successful labor.

Mourning of Muharram

This is one of the weirdest cultures in Muslim communities. They call it “Mourning of Muharram” and it takes place on the death anniversary of Husayn Ibn Ali. In this very day, a number of groups consisting of Shia Muslims go out with whips attached with knives and blades and then start beating them up unstoppably. Some people may even cut their own heads off with these knives. No matter how cruel this is, this tradition has been passed over to their descendants from generations. Interestingly, people in that community have been following this culture voluntarily.

While Adobe is primarily known for software such as Photoshop, Acrobat Reader and a plethora of other things we all pirate online (be honest), they’ve now done the best thing ever. Remember those weird, downright horrible stock photos that are very often turned into memes? Well, Adobe just released a clothing line with nothing but those pictures. Because why the hell not.





See how awkward some of these look? That’s the new you. I’ll be honest, I’d wear all of the “senior citizen on a computer” clothes to work. All the time. Of course I’d be out of a job in like two weeks tops, but it would be at least 80% worth it, and that’s nearly enough to validate spending money on these clothes + the inevitably high shipping costs that would go along with it.

And just in case you were wondering – because I was too – it’s NOT a hoax. Well, at least not entirely. The clothing range is called Adobe Stock Apparel and it’s released to promote their royalty-free image service called Adobe Stock. Sadly enough, the clothes aren’t for sale. We’re not yet allowed to become the people we were meant to be, but maybe the positive response this is getting online will either convince another company that this might be worth it or make Adobe mass-produce these.

In case you were wondering if there was more – there is. You can find the entire range here and be thoroughly surprised at how awesome these look. Well, on people that are more attractive than me. On me, they’d probably look like an average guy trying to pull off a funny shirt but failing horribly. I mean, the effort is worth something, right?