A few days ago, I put Jennifer Aniston’s first Instagram as the “lead link” in the afternoon links post. I thought it was cute that Jennifer has finally joined Instagram and obvious PR is obvious – she was clearly persuaded to join IG as part of her promotion for The Morning Show on Apple+. Looking back on it now, it’s sort of surprising that no one ever contractually obligated her to use social media as a promotional tool – I mean, she has all kinds of endorsements and ad campaigns. She could have been doing Instagram sponcon for Aveeno all this time. But she waited until now to open an IG account and guess what? America’s Sweetheart is still super-popular:
Jennifer Aniston made history when she joined Instagram on Tuesday. The actress, 50, broke the Guinness World Records title for the fastest time to reach one million followers on Instagram in five hours and 16 minutes, PEOPLE confirms.
Not only did The Morning Show actress gain friends, she also dethroned one famous couple for the title: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The royal couple previously held the title when they launched their Instagram account in April and broke the title in five hours and 45 minutes. Some of the previous title holders include K-Pop star Kang Daniel and Pope Francis.
Wait Pope Francis is on the ‘gram? We stan a thirst-trapping Pope, my goodness. As for Aniston, yes… one million followers in just about five hours. As I’m writing this, she has 11.7 million followers. Aveeno better run her a check because she absolutely will start shilling her ad contracts on IG now.
Jennifer also appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night and she talked about joining Instagram and she says she doesn’t know why she joined (LOL no one buys that) and how crazy it is that everyone is following her now. And she had a Finstagram to creep on IG. I know the feeling!
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I have never understood her appeal. I do empathise with her growing pains under her mommas care.
She’s basic so people relate to her because they see themselves if they were celebrities.
This. Ive always called her the “perfect average”. She has always come across as really boring to me.
Agreed! Well said.
I like her a lot, so I can tell you from my perspective. She’s cool and funny, she seems like a person you would have a cocktail with and like a truly great friend. People around me also like her a lot for pretty much the same reasons.
In a world where people like the Karadasian’s become famous, I actually like Jennifer. She does seem relatable and fallible. She’s had a lot of crap and heartache come her way and she seems to weather it without much drama.
100% agree. Yes, we know that she’s rich/famous, but she just really doesn’t come across as pretentious, you know she wears black dresses, jeans, cargo pants, white t-shirts, sandals….stuff that we all wear. She likes tacos and margaritas. She loves her dogs. Like someone else said, she seems relatable.
Yep, I agree. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like Aniston except for readers of this site. One of the reasons I like her is that I don’t think she comes off as pretentious and seems to have a “to each his/her own” attitude. Plus, I haven’t heard anything negative about her from people whom she worked with which is refreshing. I have a friend who is the entertainment biz and she said she couldn’t have been nicer to everyone on the set. I also like her street style even if it is “basic.”
She’s not my favorite actress or anything, but I like her too. She seems like she’d be fun to hang out with, and good friend.
I like her too. And as a fan of Days of Our Lives from a long time ago, I like her dad as well – John Aniston.
I like her because she seems so chill. Also, the kids in my city are running around in Friends shirts and sweaters, so IMO she is still super popular because of the show and she knows it because her first post was with her Friends co-stars.
I agree with you Bc
I was one of the people who followed her super quick. I love her. Don’t really know why, I just do!
Same. My apathy towards her has nothing to do with the Brad-Angelina drama either; I was a teen during that gossip cycle and Britney’s steady downward spiral was a far more interesting story to me and my age group. She just doesn’t spark any interest or intrigue for me. I will say that her friendship with racist Chelsea Handler has me side-eyeing her (along with Handler’s other celeb friendships- Sharapova, Witherspoon, Theron, etc.).
I love her. Always have and probably always will. She seems like a decent person. Enough with the ‘she’s basic’ insults and the “I don’t understand her appeal’, 11.7 million people including me understand her appeal.
Same here. And I adore GOMI but I am seriously getting tired of “Jennifer is a shallow boring moron” narrative here.
Had to google GOMI Anne, as with so many acronyms online (I’m old). Thanks for the new one!
I ❤ her rom coms. Chillaxation teas.
What I really love about Aniston – not to sound pervy – is her body.👄😍
Her figure in Friends Seasons 3 & 4, and body in Picture Perfect was my HS goals!!
One of my favourite exes and human being IS TOTALLY in love with her. LOL. We are on great terms and I still tease him about it.
I agree, basic is overused as an insult these days, and it’s petty and childish in my opinion.
Basic is a try hard insult women who are way less exciting than they think they are employ. I know many of them. I snicker, trust.
Just watch an interview with her, she can barely string together a coherent sentence. She’s so vanilla it’s boring. I used to like her when I was a teenager but I guess I grew up.
Yep. I like her. She is appealing and often very funny. I thought she was good on Friends, and I loved her performances in We are the Millers, Horrible Bosses, and Along Came Polly (off the top of my head). And that new one with Adam Sandler where they go on vacation and get framed for a murder. I just like her.
Another unpopular opinion: I like Sarah Jessica Parker, too. There! The cat is out of the bag!
I’m definitely one of those followers lol. I have long been a Jen fan.
God I hope I look half that good when I’m 50
Never mind her popularity – THIS is what I don’t understand. Sometimes I feel like I’m going crazy because no-one else seems to mention it (maybe we’re all too conditioned to think it’s ‘normal’) but I think she looks awful. I mean – did anyone see that terrible Murder Mystery on Netflix? She looked scary! She looks great in a still but when she’s moving the fillers or botox or whatever she uses make her face look weirdly stretched and puffy. So uncomfortable and unnatural looking. That isn’t something I aspire to look like. I’d much prefer to see lines and wrinkles and evidence of a life lived. Maybe that’s just me?
Just you. Let women choose how they want to age. You choose your lines and if Jen chooses botox/fillers/whatever, her choice.
Fair enough. Of course women can choose how they want to age. Just as I can choose to find too much botox etc depressing
I agree, she looks bad in videos, but looks good in stills and photos because of filter or photoshopping. maybe thats why she is relatable because she looks homely. she is popular because of Friends and was once married to Brad Pitt.
Aniston was made popular because of Friends, that’s true. Just like George Clooney was made popular because of Grey’s Anatomy, and Jennifer Garner became popular because of Alias. Aniston was popular in her own right before she hooked up with Brad.
George Clooney was on ER. He was a full-blown movie star by the time Grey’s Anatomy came out.
I didn’t realize how popular Jen is until my now 20 yo niece started tweeting Friends memes several years ago. I asked her about it. That’s when I found out Friends is HUGE with Gen Z or whatever, and that Aniston is their fav. They don’t truck with Pheebs, which I find funny because back in the 90’s, Gen x was in love with “pheebs” and I never liked her! She was always my least fav Friend. It took a coupla decades, but public opinion caught up to me. Oh yeah baby!
Wait, why don’t they truck with Pheebs?
I don’t either because for being so supposedly laidback, she seemed like she’d be a lot to habdle.
I don’t know, and I mean, I haven’t done a survey. According the group my niece hangs out with, all girls, they find Phoebe annoying, they love Rachel, and they like Monica.
Yes, she would be, and she got very mean in later seasons.
How do they like Monica but find Phoebe annoying? Monica was the wooooorst especially after her and Chandler got together. Then she made Chandler insufferable with her.
But I love pheebes… she may have had some annoying, meta physical like involvements… still she had a good heart and joey recognised this too. its why he was the closest to her. however, RACHEL and JOEY remain my faves anyway.
Chandler is my fav followed by Monica, Phoebe, Joe, Ross and lastly Rachel..
Ross is my favorite. He’s the smartest, and the one I would have set my sights on if any of this were real. Then Rachel, Joey, Monica, and Chandler. Pheebs is just a huge annoyance, a loud mouth big bird who spews anti-science nonsense. Her, I would have refused to have at my place.
I was in college when the series originally started, and I liked Chandler the best, and then Monica/Rachel. Rewatching as an adult, I found Ross, Phoebe, and Joey the funniest. I know it’s problematic and a little dated at times, but it’s like comfort food and still funny in many ways. I’ll probably do one more rewatch before it leaves Netflix.
Ross is great because David Schwimmer just knows how to read a line. Some of the funniest moments were Ross ones.
Absolutely – Ross is kind of terrible as a person, but hilariously so, and it’s due to Schwimmer’s timing.
One persons basic is anothers classic and timeless. I personally enjoy celebrities like Jen who don’t constantly thrust their perceived edginess, wokeness, controversiality, etc. in our faces. She seems to really enjoy life. And her looks always seem attainable which I think is a big part of her universal appeal. I’ll take Jens classic tees and jeans over Kim Ks bike shorts and lucite heels any day.
Did anyone else see the cocaine on the cell phone case in the group Friends photo?? Appears to be 5 little groups of something white on a phone in the bottom right hand corner.
Looks like a reflection from overhead lights to me, like the ones on the ceramic piece or whatever that is next to it?
it’s not coke. what it looks like to me is an image on the phone screen that is blurry and grainy due to the darkness of the pic. it seems to be a photo that is either a landscape viewed in portrait mode, or vice versa. the “background” behind the white is gray, but on either side the screen is black.
do you really think that these people, in the location they are and with the people they’re with, would be cutting and doing lines off of a cellular phone screen? I was never into coke but had friends who were and saw people doing it at parties, and…honestly, they’d have a plate or tray…like, a DESIGNATED tray. it would one thing if they were doing this in a bathroom stall or somewhere else they were trying to hide it. but at someone’s house, with a small group of friends? nah, it ain’t coke.
PS – this is not to say that none of them do coke – I have no idea if they do or not – but I really don’t think they do, and I really don’t think they’d be so dumb as to have it in the background of a picture.
So dissapointed she caved into social media.
She didn’t seem like she needed or wanted the extra attention but yet here we are..
Does it seem likes she’s everywhere the act few weeks? There were about 4 articles on DM alone.
11.5 million in a few days? Gotta admit I’m impressed. It must have made her feel good, too.
Cool she’s on Instagram but haven’t really focused much on her since Friends and the Brad drama. She hasn’t really had any meaty film roles that really showcased her and gotten critical recognition in a while. Curious to see how this news show drama is received.