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Kerala footballer Muhammed Riswan among 2 Indians to win Instagram Rings Award this year

Instagram named twenty-five Rings winners worldwide, picked by a fourteen-member panel; Riswan has about 2.7 million followers and gets a real ring, plus a gold one online.

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA freestyle footballer from Kerala just won one of the biggest creator honors on Instagram, and I am so happy for him I could cry.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentMuhammed Riswan is one of twenty-five winners worldwide of the Rings awards, and one of only two from India.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe other is the model Bhavitha Mandava.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd they get an actual ring, in a box, that you can hold in your hand. In the mail! Love it. Love all of it.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentPlus a gold ring around their Stories. Honestly the physical one is the flex, because nobody on Instagram ever gets to keep anything.

  6. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFourteen judges, Adam Mosseri among them, and Indian Television says follower counts didn't matter. So somebody finally read the bio.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentRating it: a ten, and he has about two point seven million followers anyway. He's got a ring on his finger, a ring around his Stories, and the ball is still the only thing he never drops.

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