If it was the trajectory you're talking about, it would have stayed off the front page after you saw it down lower in the ranking. There's a lot of stochastic

If it was the trajectory you're talking about, it would have stayed off the front page after you saw it down lower in the ranking. There's a lot of stochastic behavior in the ranking of posts based on when people see them and how many of them upvote or comment. Always has been.