How to Use the Girl Grip Trend, World Cup Carousel, and More on Instagram (Trends for June: Week 3)
It is World Cup season and Instagram is already running with it. Instagram's own creators account dropped a carousel inspired by the tournament just a few days ago, and we jumped on it fast. Like, very fast. And then we made it better by animating the soccer ball, because a static ball is a sad ball and we are not doing that.
This week's Trend Drop has four templates that are all completely different from each other, which I love.
You have got a hype carousel with a literal animated goal, a niche-specific image post that your audience will screenshot immediately, a glowy Reel trend that is quietly everywhere right now, and a meme graph that is equal parts silly and deeply accurate. Something in here will work for your content this week. Let's go through all of them.
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Trend One: Goal Animated Carousel
This one started with Instagram's creators account. They posted a World Cup-inspired carousel, no animation on the ball, just the concept. We took that and gave the ball a real path, so it literally animates from slide to slide until it hits the net. It is a lot more fun this way and I stand by that.
Here is how the template works. The ball travels across the slides as you swipe, moving from frame to frame along a visible path until it scores the goal. All of the other elements in the final slide are animated too, so once you save it as a video, everything pops and moves the way it should. Canva can make it a little hard to preview animations inside the editor, but do not stress about that. Save it as a video and you will see exactly what it looks like.
Your job with this one is simple. You change the text to celebrate a win your audience has that they do not give themselves enough credit for. It does not have to be a big dramatic achievement. It can be something small, something funny, something that sounds minor but your audience knows is actually huge. Think "you replied to every comment this week" or "you posted three times and did not delete any of them" or whatever your version of that is. This is the same energy as that viral awards medal trend we did a while back, just with World Cup timing. The goal is to make your audience feel seen, hyped up, and a little emotional in the best way.
The only customization you need to do is add your handle and swap in the text. Change the colors if you want them to match your brand. That is it. We are early on this one, which means posting this week puts you ahead of the wave before it gets saturated.
Trend Two: The Girl Grip
The girl grip trend is everywhere right now. If you have not seen it, the concept is simple. Someone shows a realistic "grip" of things a specific type of person always has with them, and the things are always a little absurd, very specific, and extremely recognizable to that person.
Our template builds this as a flat lay-style image post. There is a phone and a pair of hands in the scene, and those stay together as one element so you do not have to worry about moving them separately. Everything else on the surface is fair game to swap out, rearrange, or remove entirely. We included a handful of elements as placement guides, so you can see how things should be tilted and layered to get that realistic, slightly chaotic flat lay feel.
The way to make this land for your audience is to go specific and a little weird. Think about what your niche actually carries, not the polished version, the real version. For a social media manager it might be a ring light, seven half-finished notebooks, a cold coffee, and screen time anxiety. For a hairdresser it might be scissors, dry shampoo, a lint roller, and the ability to make conversation for eight hours straight. For a gymnastics mom it is something completely different. Whatever fits your people, pile it in. The more your audience looks at this and thinks "oh my god that is so me," the better it is working.
This kind of post does something really specific for your account. It signals to the right people that they are in the right place. New followers who land on it either immediately get it or they do not, and that self-selection is actually the point. You want the people who get it to stick around.
Trend Three: Yellow Text Effects Reel
This one is quieter than the others but it is showing up a lot if you know what to look for. The yellow text effect gives your Reel a warm, glowy look with text that sits over b-roll in a way that feels almost editorial. It is pretty without being precious, and it is really easy to read, which is something a lot of the trendier text effects actually sacrifice.
Our Canva version looks slightly different from what you are seeing in the wild, and that is intentional. We built it to be easier to read than most of the versions out there. The typography is structured so that the different font sizes work together to create a sphere-like visual feel, where the lines of text are roughly the same width even though the words are different lengths. To get that to look right, pay attention to how many words you are putting on each line and adjust as needed.
The content for this one is an empowering quote or message your audience needs to hear. Something along the lines of "your next client may be closer than you think" or "your content is working even when the numbers do not show it yet." It should feel true and a little personal, not like something you pulled off a motivational poster. Your b-roll sits behind the text, and you can bring the transparency up or down depending on how you want it to feel. If you use your own b-roll, keep the clip around five seconds. It does not need to be longer than that.
This format is ideal for a Reel that does not require you to be on camera at all. Film some footage of your workspace, your hands, your product, whatever is visually relevant, drop the text on top, and you have a post that is current, on-trend, and actually says something worth hearing.
Trend Four: Search 3D Emoji
This is the one I know your audience is going to screenshot and send to someone. The Life Moments template is a meme-style graph that tracks life's major milestones along a line, things like graduation, engagement, having a baby, and then spikes way, way past all of them for one very small, very specific win that your audience secretly cares about more than any of the above.
The humor here lives entirely in your choices. The big milestones are the setup. The tiny unhinged win at the top of the graph is the punchline. For my audience, for example, it could be "a Reel I spent three hours editing and actually got more than 12 likes." That is the kind of thing that sounds ridiculous out loud but anyone who has been on Instagram for five minutes understands completely.
The template uses small emoji faces to show the emotional range, and I would keep those because they do a lot of work in the visual. They go from kind of fine to genuinely overwhelmed with joy, which tracks perfectly with the joke. For the milestone emojis throughout the graph, you have options. There are 3D elements included that look great, but you can also use regular iOS-style emojis, pull in emoji graphics from Canva's element library, or use cutout photos if you want something more custom. You can also create your own graphic elements by taking any image into Canva's background remover and dropping it in. Play with it.
The big milestones do not have to be graduation and engagement either. It really depends on who your audience is and where they are in life. If you serve early-career professionals, go one direction. If you serve parents or longtime business owners, go another. Pick milestones your specific audience will recognize and then make sure the punchline win at the top is so specific to your niche that only your people would get it. That is what makes this kind of post travel.
Why These Four Trends Work Together
Looking at all four of these, what I keep coming back to is that they all do the same thing in different ways. They make your audience feel seen. The goal carousel celebrates something they are doing but not acknowledging. The girl grip shows them their own life back to them. The life moments graph makes them laugh at something true. The yellow text Reel gives them something they needed to hear.
None of these are trends you have to stretch yourself to fit. You are just taking a format that is already working and filling it in with something real for your people. That is the whole game, and that is why templates work. The hard part is the concept and the timing. We handle both. You just fill in what only you know.
That is the whole idea behind Trend Drops. Instagram moves fast. A format that is fresh and getting traction today can feel old in two or three weeks. When we spot something gaining momentum, we build the template and get it into the club while the timing is still right, so you can post early and get more reach before everyone else catches on.
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About Manu Muraro
Manu Muraro is the founder of Your Social Team, a content marketing brand helping small business owners grow through strategic email marketing and Instagram content.
She’s the creator of Your Template Club, one of the first Canva template subscriptions designed for Instagram, and the founder of Your Inbox Team, a weekly email marketing membership that helps entrepreneurs send consistent, high-converting emails in under 15 minutes.
Manu is also the creator of The Reelies Awards, the first award show celebrating Small Business Owners and Creators’ creativity and originality in Instagram Reels.
A former creative strategist at Cartoon Network, Manu brings award-winning experience to everything she creates — from viral Reels to done-for-you content that saves time and drives results.
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