I used to make it all the time back in the day, I think i just needed like 100 likes per 5 min and thats it, now it's like 1000 likes per 10 min, so your best option is to buy fake likes and tell the person you buy it from to add it as soon as you upload a new pic, and you'll make it to pop page, I did that like a month ago and it worked.
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Sure there's a trick to it. It depends on your follower count though. The ratio of likes/comments : followers you have must be high within a certain time frame.
For example if you have 100,000 followers and you get 20,000 likes within 30 minutes, you'll make the pop page. But if it doesn't get any like after that, it will be taken off.