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Probably more like a burst of views on a video boosts it in the algorithm.

• pc86 3y ago
  Which causes more people to watch it, which increases the odds someone posts it to a different site and also increases the odds someone on that third site has already seen it and comments, etc. etc. A big surge in one site can affect multiple sites pretty easily, especially if they share a large proportion of their user base and/or users can easily bounce between them even if they're not regular users of one or the other. It's kind of tin foil hat territory to assume it's a "coordinated push" and not just how "the algorithm" + the internet works in general.
  • adhesive_wombat 3y ago
    Indeed, it's not called "viral content" for nothing!