For most devout Instagrammers, having 1 million followers -- let alone 8 million -- sounds like a dream come true. But with great power comes a great pain, in the form of a zillion notifications you receive each time you post.
Don't believe us? Just check out this video by Demy De Zeeuw, whose soccer-focused account 433 has 8 million followers. The video, posted by Zeeuw on Facebook over the weekend and first discovered by TechCrunch, shows hundreds of push notifications pouring into De Zeeuw's iPhone, which -- amazingly enough -- doesn't burst into flames from all that activity.
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For comparison, Taylor Swift's account has 62.6 million followers. Now we totally want to see what happens with her phone when she enables push notifications for Instagram.