There is a weird trend going on Instagram. If you go to @pgtalal’s Instagram page and click on one of its highlights, it will crash your phone. People have been scratching their heads searching everywhere for the answers to why it happens. Arun Maini, a tech Youtuber from the United Kingdom, took it upon himself to find the answer to this puzzle. Maini found that the owner of the Instagram page was a 14-year-old hacker who wanted to “create some Instagram glitches” just for fun.

Without revealing their real name, the Instagram user who goes by the name Talal told Maini that they programmed it by writing codes that send requests to Instagram servers. “But sorry I can’t tell people how did I create the highlight because I think it’s a secret (sic),” replied Talal to Maini. Talal also told that the teen coder has been programming since they were 11 years old.

Maini approached many experts hoping for them to solve what was beneath Talal’s Instagram story. Ananya Arora, a security researcher at Arizona State University, US, managed to look into the code behind the unexpected behaviour of the Instagram story, and he found that it was actually a combination of different Instagram stickers that were scaled to huge proportions. These stickers were a typing Instagram quiz, a countdown and a question that were scaled to dimensions in quintillions, 13th, 12th and 17th powers of 10, respectively.