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Saturday 20 December 2014

This Is How Many Instagram Followers Celebs Lost in the Great Purge of 2014

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Did you survive the great Instagram purge of 2014?

If your follower count went down suddenly, you are not alone. Instagram announced this week that they were doing a huge clean sweep of spam accounts, so any Instagram follower you had that was a bot or that was deactivated has been wiped out, or will be by the end of December. The account for Instagram itself lost over 18,000,000 followers.

"We're in the process of fixing an issue that incorrectly includes inactive or fake accounts in follower/following lists," the company wrote on its Help page. "We want to maintain the best possible experience on Instagram, so we do our best to remove spam, fake accounts and other people and posts that don't follow our Community Guidelines. As we remove these accounts, some people may notice a decrease in their follower/following counts."

But the people that were hit the hardest were celebs, with some A-listers on Instagram losing millions and millions of followers. From Justin Bieber to Britney Spears, Instagram Purge '14 was super rough on the rich and famous. Poor celebrities. They really can't catch a break, can they?

Here are how many followers your favorite stars lost this week, according to data pulled byZach Allia. We used sad GIFs so you can adequately feel their social media pain:

1. Justin Bieber