Famous for a Tuesday: The Brutal, Hilarious, and Deeply Unfair Lottery of Going Viral on TikTok
One video. Twelve million views. Then absolutely nothing. The TikTok virality machine has invented a brand new kind of fame — the kind that lasts roughly as long as a gas station sushi roll and leaves about the same emotional aftertaste. Welcome to the cruelest lottery on the internet, where everyone wins once and almost nobody wins twice.