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Because the typical Instagram account is only followed by a handful of people. So anything unusual is unlikely to get any traction.
by edent 3y ago
Because the typical Instagram account is only followed by a handful of people. So anything unusual is unlikely to get any traction.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoMight be my age showing, but I swear it wasn't like this just a few years ago - this kind of story would genuinely go viral from the first rando posting it on social media ("wtf is my camera broken?") or the second rando that adapted it into a goofy scene/video ("look I'm a vampire now").
- londons_explore 3y agoSocial media algorithms have changed. Viral things used to be semi-random (eg. the 6:01pm on sunday bug, which heavily promoted things initially published at 6:01pm on a sunday because thats when some weekly stats aggregation function ran, and the age of the video in seconds was used as a divisor, so you got huge popularity boosts for the first week if you could post in the right second).
- actionfromafar 3y agoYep. The algorithms have locked onto value stream extraction mode.