Instagram was created on October 6, 2010. According to reports online the first person to ever make an Instagram post was Kevin Systrom who took a photo of a stray dog sitting next to a taco truck in Mexico and uploaded the image to Instagram.
Now knowing who the first person, who actually uploaded the first photo to Instagram sparked the question of “Who is the first celebrity to actually join Instagram.” Shockingly a lot of people would think it was the Hip-Hop rapper Soulja Boy who always makes fans aware that he was the first start a lot of things in the culture. So we went ahead and did our research! According to cheatsheet.com, the legendary rapper Snoop Dogg was the first celebrity to join the app.
Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger previously confirmed that information is actually true. “The first one was Snoop Dogg,” they said. “He really joined early. You’ve got a team of eight or nine at the time, and Snoop Dogg joins and you get a message that says ‘Snoop’s people want to come over to the office.’ Snoop’s people? I don’t have people. Do you have people?”
The first time he made a post was on January 11, 2011, with a filtered photo of himself dressed in a suit. The caption was “bossin’ up”. From that first photo alone he gained 2.5 million followers and then Instagram went up from there!
In a recent interview with Drink Champs that is set to be released Thursday. Snoop Dogg addressed the rumors about him being the first person to join the app. “I help brand Instagram, Im the first celebrity on Instagram and they brag about that s**t.” Then the host chimed in and said “Not Soulja Boy?” Snoop then replied, “No N****Snoop Dogg!”
The rapper went on to explain how the Instagram creators have meetings and always bring up Snoop’s name. “They have symposiums where they have there conversations about how there company became a billion dollar company, when we first started Instagram our company was a small company and there’s this one celebrity that got on our page and started blowing it up and then we became a hundred billion dollar company. And you know who that celebrity is, that’s Snoop Dogg.”
#Socialites are you shocked by this information?
no, the first celebrity to join instagram was actually milo ventigmilia, his first post was on December 2010