Almost a year after the algorithm change, in May 2017, Kim Kardashian West would become the world’s fifth person to pass 100 million Instagram followers, after Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, and the soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo. The Kardashian family wasn’t influential enough to make Instagram undo the algorithm change, but they were successful with a different request.
