Beyonce's pregnancy announcement breaks the Insta record for most-liked photo ever

All hail Queen Bey, first of her name, mother of twins and breaker of Instagram records

Beyoncé deigned to bless us all with good news that we desperately needed yesterday by revealing that she was not only pregnant for the second time, but pregnant with twins.

The reaction online was overwhelmingly joyous, so much so that Beyoncé broke the Instagram record for most-like photo of all time, trouncing previous holder Selena Gomez's paid-for post with Coca-Cola.

We would like to share our love and happiness. We have been blessed two times over. We are incredibly grateful that our family will be growing by two, and we thank you for your well wishes. - The Carters

A photo posted by Beyoncé (@beyonce) on Feb 1, 2017 at 10:39am PST

Beyoncé's post now stands at over 7.5 million likes in the 16 hours since it's been posted.

For reference, here's Gomez's sponsored post that was the previous record holder, that has just over 6.3 million likes since it was posted in June of last year.

when your lyrics are on the bottle ? #ad

A photo posted by Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) on Jun 25, 2016 at 2:03pm PDT

Which just goes to show that babies> capitalism, proving that maybe the world isn't ended after all. But that's just our heads in the sand talking.

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