Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of most-followed Instagram accounts
For starters, the number of people who follow any given Instagram account changes daily for any number of reasons: new followers adding it, old followers removing it, and on and so forth — so it's a characteristic that's in a state of constant flux and renders a list dynamically unmaintanable. Secondly, the references aren't |reliable sources at all — with just one exception they're merely the |primary source Instagram feeds themselves, and the exception is just a raw ranking aggregator and doesn't contain any ''content'' to analyze or explain why the rankings would ''matter''. Which means that ''ranking'' people by the size of their social media following isn't a thing that ''reliable'' sources ''do'' — it amounts to |original research that we're doing ''ourselves''. Having more Instagram followers than somebody else does is not a comment on their relative worth or talent — Selena Gomez doesn't have more Instagram followers than Adele because she's a better singer or makes better music, she's just a bigger gossip magnet who plays the celebrity game more actively (basically, people are just hoping she'll post revenge porn of her ex-boyfriends' peckers.) And it doesn't even mean Selena has a bigger ''fan base'' than Adele does; Adele's sold more than 14 times as many records as Selena has, and the only difference is that more of Adele's fans are adults who have more important things to do with their time (like being the parents of Selena Gomez fans) than clcking the little hearts on Instagram posts all day. And when the single most widely followed account (with almost twice as many followers as the runner-up) on Instagram is, well, Instagram itself, that's not really telling you very much at all — people follow the host account because they want to keep up with the platform's news releases. Big fat hairy "Tom on Myspace" deal. Who over the age of 12 ''really'' gives two hoots about ''ranking'' people by the size of their social media followings
— User:Bearcat, 21:10, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:OR (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)