Every Thursday, Instagram streams are filled with pictures of your best friend’s worst childhood fashion choices. #ThrowbackThursday — often shortened to #TBT to save #CharacterSpace — is a nostalgia-driven social media trend that has been adopted by everyone from the Kardashians to your Dad to President Obama.
But who had the most popular #TBT of 2014? Instagram scoured its photo database and found that the #TBT with the most likes came from none other than Justin Bieber.
In fact, when looking at the most popular photos associated with the throwback hashtags, Bieber’s account had the five most liked pictures out of all of Instagram’s 300 million active monthly users.
And now, to properly celebrate one of the last Throwback Thursdays of the year, a throwback to some of the most popular #TBTs of 2014, as compiled by Instagram:
Kim Kardashian
Michelle Obama
Joe Biden
Beyonce
Kate Upton
Reese Witherspoon
Justin Timberlake
Cara Delavigne
Jimmy Fallon
Ellen
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