I've Gone Viral!

[stevenpiziks]

 I seem to have gone viral. Unfortunately, it's not about my books. 

 

I posted a pair of photos of the baboon, one that showed how bad his orange makeup is, and a second that showed a Photoshopped version where someone digitally removed the makeup. I didn't do the Photoshopping. I only found it, and I mentioned this in my post.

 

I posted it last night on Facebook at about 8:30 PM. After Darwin and I had our New Year's smooch, it sported 450,000 views and hundreds of comments and reactions. This morning, it was at 500,000 views. As of this writing (2:00 PM), it has 723,215 views, 5010 reactions, 53,375 clicks (from people who wanted a closer look at the photos), and 2,036 comments, the vast, vast majority of which are anti-baboon. It goes without saying that only a tiny sliver of the views come from people who are FB friends with me.

 

Huh.

 

As an experiment, I made two more posts. One was another Photoshopped pic of Trump, this one with no makeup and his hair all shaved off. The other was a reminder pitch about my books, especially the audio version of THE IMPOSSIBLE CUBE, which just came out.

 

The second baboon post has gotten 2,067 views in the two hours since I put it up. The book post has gotten 459 views.

 

You can see the algorithms at work here. FB decided that my original baboon post deserved to be shared outside my usual FB haunts as an "you may also like" kind of thing to people who have also shared their dislike of the baboon. The same seems to be happening with my second baboon post. Meanwhile, my books are getting a bit more joy. Usually posts about my books get 200-300 views, so I've gotten double the usual in the last couple of hours. I've only gotten two friend requests.

 

Make of this what you will! :) 

 

 

 

Comments

[martianmooncrab]

post one of him as Marie Antionette...