{"id":13785,"date":"2023-07-12T07:38:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T11:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=13785"},"modified":"2023-07-12T07:56:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T11:56:00","slug":"who-do-you-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=13785","title":{"rendered":"who do you follow?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Seriously. Who\/what do you follow?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those on Instagram, for instance, who have the most followers, are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cristiano Ronaldo <em>\u2014 The Portuguese professional soccer player has more followers than many have in their own country with 593 million followers.&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lionel Messi <em>\u2014 The Argentine soccer player gets close to Ronaldo, but <\/em><strong><em>only<\/em><\/strong><em> with 475 million followers.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Selena Gomez <em>\u2014 One of the fastest recent risers, this non-athlete talks about far more than being the Biebs\u2019 ex-girlfriend. Her food and mental health conversations have found her with over 423 million followers.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kylie Jenner <em>\u2014 Here comes the first of this familial clan, as this media personality and young business woman now has 395 million followers.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson <em>\u2014 This retired professional wrestler, now actor and tequila connoisseur finds himself 5th on the list with 385 million followers.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ariana Grande <em>\u2014 The pop icon with an impressive four-octave range tunes in with 375 million followers.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kim Kardashian <em>\u2014 A half-sister of the aforementioned Jenner, this media personality slightly trails the above with 360 million followers.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles <em>\u2014 Unquestionably, \u201cQueen Bey\u201d is one of the greatest entertainers of her generation, evident by her 312 million followers.&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Khloe Kardashian <em>\u2014 Next in the famous family tree is the \u201creality\u201d TV sister with 309 million followers.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nike <em>\u2014 At 10th comes our first non-individual, with the popular shoe brand currently netting some 299 million followers.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Justin Bieber <em>\u2014 One of my personal faves, the Canadian-born pop star has 292 million followers.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kendall Jenner <em>\u2014 Another Kardashian\/Jenner celebrity \u2014 daughter of Kris and then Bruce \u2014 now Caitlyn \u2014 has a respectable 291 million followers.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>National Geographic <em>\u2014 The only other non-individual focuses on authentic beauty without any make-up, as noted by its 279 million followers.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Taylor Swift <em>\u2014 Swifties shake off any idea that their icon isn\u2019t in the top ten, regardless of also <strong>only<\/strong> 264 million followers.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Virat Kohli \u2014 <em>And lastly, in spot 15, we\u2019re bookended by one more sports star, this one a cricketeer with 252 million followers.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>My personal feed includes a few (far) lesser known personalities, such as Omgitswicks, the \u201cpart tour guide\/part wise uncle\u201d who provides hilarious sketch comedy focused on Florida nuances, and TJ Therrien, the middle child who showcases family therapy by amusingly exaggerating the differences in the oldest, middle and youngest child approaches.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But all that to make a singular point this day\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of the above are known as who\/what we enjoy\u2026 we like\u2026 at the very least we\u2019re curious and want to pay attention them. Hence, we <strong><em>follow<\/em><\/strong> them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But my strong sense, with absolute all due respect to each of the above, is that current culture has diluted what it means <strong><em>to follow.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether it be a new diet, the Golden Rule or Jesus Christ, for example, to actually <em><strong>follow<\/strong><\/em> doesn\u2019t mean simply to enjoy, like or pay attention to. It doesn\u2019t mean being curious or behaving however we want to. To &#8220;follow&#8221; and &#8220;follow halfheartedly&#8221; are contradictory. To <strong><em>follow<\/em><\/strong>, friends, is to be wholly in. What we like or agree with are secondary to why we chose to follow the who\/what to begin with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Respectfully\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously. Who\/what do you follow? Those on Instagram, for instance, who have the most followers, are: My personal feed includes a few (far) lesser known personalities, such as Omgitswicks, the \u201cpart tour guide\/part wise uncle\u201d who provides hilarious sketch comedy focused on Florida nuances, and TJ Therrien, the middle child who showcases family therapy by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=13785\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;who do you follow?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13785"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13798,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13785\/revisions\/13798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}