eli5 how can videos/gifs or pictures go viral multiple times, even if it was big only a couple moths ago, it’ll be reposted and still get huge coverage, what causes this?
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There’s a micro-cycle between subs on reddit and a macro-cycle between various social media platforms where a piece of content gets posted somewhere, followers of that person or subreddit (let’s call it A) see it and think it would be good content for another sub/page/tag/etc and post it there (let’s call that B); people then see the post to B and realize it would be good content for A and post it there. Now just repeat that process for a couple days.
Then you have people who try to farm karma/followers and search for content that was posted a couple weeks ago and yielded a lot of views for the person that posted it; they repost it with the same title and usually get a shitload of views/upvotes because there are so many people who didn’t see it the first time around.
People farm karma/followers so they can then leverage those accounts to push products/ideas.
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