My lunch break video of a cat got picked up by a news site and I still don't get it

So last Tuesday I was eating my sandwich in the warehouse break room and this stray cat just strolled in through the loading dock. It jumped up on a pallet of boxes and started meowing real loud until someone threw it a piece of their burrito. I filmed maybe 30 seconds of it on my phone just to send to my wife and then posted it on my personal page without thinking much. By the time I got home that night my sister was texting me asking if I saw my cat on the local news Facebook page. It had 40,000 views by then and now it's up past 200,000 and people keep tagging me in comments. I still can't figure out why that specific video took off when I got like 12 likes on my fishing trip post last week. Has anyone else had something totally random blow up like that where you still have no clue why?

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kelly38514d ago

200,000 views from a 30 second warehouse cat video" is absolutely wild to me. I barely get that many views on stuff I actually try to make good.

tara_jones9414d ago

That whole "barely get that many views on stuff I actually try to make good" bit hits hard... it reminds me of this time I spent a week editing a nature video and got like 50 views, but my friend's blurry phone clip of a pigeon eating a french fry took off overnight. It's like the algorithm knows exactly when to mess with you.