Former India captain Virat Kohli recently completed 200 million followers on Instagram thus becoming the first Indian to achieve the feat on the social media platform. Kohli surpassed Brazilian superstar Neymar to become the third most followed active athlete on the Facebook-owned platform before hitting 200 million followers on Instagram. The Indian batsman is now the third most followed athlete in the world on social media, only football player Cristiano Ronaldo with 451 million followers and Lionel Messi with 334 million followers.
One of the most followed athletes on social media, former India captain Kohli has over 49 million followers on Facebook. The former RCB captain has more than 48 million followers on Twitter. Earlier last year, Kohli created history by becoming the first Asian celebrity to achieve 150 million followers on Instagram.
Meanwhile, Virat Kohli’s brother, Vikas Kohli was recently mocked by a fan for not having as many Instagram followers as his brother.
The troll commented, “Bechara bhai ka 200 million subscribers ho gaya saale ka 1 million v nahi hua” (Bhai has 200 million subscribers and you don’t even have 1 million).
However, Vikas, who has 135K followers on Instagram, was not impressed by the dig and gave a befitting reply to the trolls as he said, “Kids do something productive… don’t share unnecessary knowledge here).”
Specifically, Vikas is an entrepreneur. He works closely with Virat and is instrumental in running his athletic wear firm, One8. Vikas is quite active on social media and often posts his videos doing workouts in the gym.