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Who on the Internet Took the Best Meta-Photo of the Instagram Deal?

Out of all the people going for the Insta-Insta motif, who captured the essence of that landmark moment when Twitter learned about one giant company buying a tiny one?

Hey, did you hear? Facebook bought Instagram for one billion dollars! That’s despite Instagram being less than two years old. (As Dennis K. Berman so astutely pointed out, the 116-year old New York Times Co. is only worth $937 million.) But who cares about money, Facebook basically has their own mint anyway. What people really care about in the whole acquisition is taking the chance to show off their totes-cool “over it” sensibilities with meta and arty photos while still showing off their business savvy. Win-win for everyone, right? Well, not exactly. Out of all the people going for the Insta-Insta motif, who captured the essence of that landmark moment when Twitter learned about one giant company buying a tiny one?

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Internet, here are the various styles people went for. You decide who won!

Sharply Straightforward

What do you think of the news that Facebook has acquired Instagram?tcrn.ch/HsptLzinstagr.am/p/JNQp5cLjoN/

— AOL (@AOL) April 9, 2012

Tweetstream

Facebook acquires Instagram tpm.ly/HvNpLs instagr.am/p/JNQ53NgMDA/

— Chris O’Driscoll (@topherod) April 9, 2012

All-caps

.@huffingtonpost goes with all caps to share the big #Instagram news. #meta instagr.am/p/JNRsZhl688/

— Mark W. Smith (@markdubya) April 9, 2012

off-kilter

How meta. instagr.am/p/JNRbidA_Vu/

— Ira Lieman (@dances_w_vowels) April 9, 2012

News-Alert

Meta!!! instagr.am/p/JNRYU2oNq-/

— Emily (@emilyluger) April 9, 2012

Story doesn’t matter

Seemed appropriate #meta instagr.am/p/JNRYfbpP1_/

— Veronique Valcu (@vvalcu) April 9, 2012

News put me on tilt

Awesome! Re: Facebook’s purchase of Instagram. RT @katiefehren: Meta instagr.am/p/JNQbN1nTxo/

— Steven Dozen (@stevendozen) April 9, 2012

Hyper-personal

Clever. RT @Kate_Pierce: Big news #meta bit.ly/HXA2DF

— Alex Knapp (@TheAlexKnapp) April 9, 2012

Showing off that he reads Dealbook

So meta. instagr.am/p/JNQp-4EUjL/

— Brian Glick (@brianglick) April 9, 2012

Phone pic of a phone pic (meta squared)

Meta.instagr.am/p/JNQes_PNop/

— Jared Weseman (@jaredweseman) April 9, 2012

too excited to frame text properly

Is that what one could call Meta?instagr.am/p/JNQTf3qaA0/

— Mischa (@Mischa1) April 9, 2012

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Paradigm: tilt/shifted

SO META! instagr.am/p/JNQFDzCNhW/

— Ben (@benzumsteg) April 9, 2012

Image of text > Link to text

#meta instagr.am/p/JNP4zjlbAd/

— Chadwick Matlin (@ChadwickMatlin) April 9, 2012

Screenshot

Fun while it lasted. #meta instagr.am/p/JNPnGeS9KK/

— Hugh Gilmore (@hgilm) April 9, 2012

metaphorical (screen) glare

meta RT @rickyyean You know what’s cool? instagr.am/p/JNPEB2HR4z/

— Crowdbooster (@Crowdbooster) April 9, 2012

Showcasing guy who isn’t zuckerberg

Metainstagr.am/p/JNPdMHxJap/

— Leigh Graves Wolf (@gravesle) April 9, 2012

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