[notatoad]

The only surprising thing here is that it's not even that good of a name. I understand platforms yanking the handles of established brands and registered trademarks, but is "sussexroyal" really as good an Instagram name as Harry and Meghan can come up with, and worth the negative pr of stories like this one?

[kalleboo]

Is this even that negative PR? They're probably going to get more people going "oooh Prince Harry and Meghan are on Instagram I should follow them" than being outraged and quitting

[eeeeeeeeeeeee]

I don’t think it will fall on them, nor should it, they probably had no idea this was going to happen.

It’s Instagram’s responsibility either way. They could have said “pick another name or we can nicely ask the current owner for that one.”

[skinnymuch]

They is referring to the Prince and Meghan, correct? They have to know by now what happpened. They can give the name back. Or not use it at the very least. Otherwise why shouldn’t it fall on them? Not knowing beforehand isn’t an excuse to go along with it now.

[notatoad]

I guess what I'm saying is if they aren't worried about the optics of it or don't consider this bad PR, why not take a better name?

[skinnymuch]

Could be that other ones have visible activity?