Angelina Jolie Became Fastest Instagram User To Gain 1 Million Subscribers

Angelina Jolie has become the fastest Instagram user to gain one million followers.

The 46-year-old actress joined the photo-sharing platform over the weekend, and she quickly amassed over seven million Instagram followers.

The Eternals actress passed Rupert Grint and Sir David Attenborough to take the record, as she amassed 2.1 million new subscribers in less than three hours.

She is followed by Drew Barrymore, Bella Hadid, Bella Thorne, Gretchen Rossi, Chrishell Stause, Jamie Lee Curtis and Helena Christiansen, to name a few.

The Hollywood star joined the platform to share a photograph of a heartbreaking letter from a teenage girl in Afghanistan, where the Taliban recently took control of the country.

Angelina’s message read: “This is a letter sent to me by a teenage girl in Afghanistan. At present the Afghan people are losing their ability to communicate on social media and express themselves freely. So I am. came to Instagram to share their stories and the voices of those around the world who are fighting for their basic human rights.

She added: “I was at the border with Afghanistan two weeks before September 11, where I met Afghan refugees who had fled from the Taliban. That was twenty years ago.

“It is disgusting to see Afghans on the move once again because of the fear and uncertainty in their country.

“Spending so much time and money, bloodshed and lives lost to get there, is a failure almost impossible to comprehend.”

Angelina is committed to continuing to support the Afghan people.

His post continued: “Seeing for decades how Afghan refugees – some of the most capable people in the world – are treated as a burden is also disgusting. Knowing that if they had the tools and the respect, anything they would do for themselves. And meet so many women and girls who not only wanted an education, but fought for it.

“Like others who are engaged, I will not turn away. I will continue to look for ways to help. And I hope you will join me.

The 46-year-old actress and activist joined the social media site on Friday.

A source told People that Jolie has joined Instagram to help raise awareness of the potential oppression of women in Afghanistan as their own communication skills are cut.

“Angie felt compelled to join at a time when women and youth in Afghanistan are losing the ability to communicate on social media and speak out freely,” the source said. “From her perspective, if she’s able to be part of the effort to amplify their voices, then she felt that was reason enough to join and use her platform.”

The girl also explained how harder it was to go to school with the Taliban patrols and how much safer she felt before they returned to power.

She was also worried that her school would be closed on their orders.

The teenager feared Afghanistan would go back to the ‘last 20 years’, to a time when women had ‘no rights’, when she said they had to work at home and had lost their “freedom”.

Jolie included a photo of Afghan women dressed from head to toe in burqas.

US troops in Afghanistan are now confined to the management of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, where US citizens and Afghans have rushed to leave the country amid a large-scale takeover by the Taliban these last days.

The date for the departure of the US military from Afghanistan was initially set for May 1 by former President Donald Trump in an agreement he signed with the Taliban, although President Joe Biden announced in April that he postponed the final date to September.

The president’s military advisers informed him that there would be “weeks or months” left to get the Afghans who had aided the United States after the September withdrawal out of the country, but they do not appear to have counted on the weakness. of the Afghan army, which almost immediately collapsed and failed to fight the Taliban forces which quickly seized most of the country’s towns.

In a speech last week, President Biden reiterated that the timetable for leaving Afghanistan was largely set by his predecessor.

He admitted that the United States had been caught off guard by the speed of the Taliban takeover and called the scenes of mass panic at Kabul airport “heartbreaking.”

Nonetheless, he said he was convinced that the decision to leave Afghanistan was the best possible option for the United States and that it would still be a difficult process.

“The developments of the past week have reinforced the fact that ending the US military engagement in Afghanistan was the right decision. … I fully support my decision. After 20 years, I have learned the hard way that there is never a good time to withdraw American forces. ‘

The Taliban have claimed in recent days that it is a more moderate force than the one that ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s.

He claims that women will still be able to go to school, even if they will have to be covered in clothes from head to toe.

However, the Taliban have already demanded that women be separated from men who are not part of their family, so it seems unlikely that they will be able to return to school or work if they cannot be in the same room. only men. students and colleagues.