A very strange internet phenomenon

[lonelyjak]

On online forums. Talking about godlikeproductions, 4chan etc

You post a (troll) thread and it organically gets so much traction in the beginning. So many posts, it's trending, you never have to bump the thread.

Eventually it reaches a standstill and no matter how many fucking times you bump the thread (as someone who is pretending that they're not the OP), it just will not get a single reply. Like you can legitimately bump it 20 times at different times of the day and even pretend you're someone else interacting with the people who posted in the thread, and you're not even gonna get crickets chirping.



This is not explained by the fact that the most active members of that community did their thing and then were gone. Something about the novelty of whatever you were trolling about just dies and no one wants to have anything to do with it anymore or smth

this happened to me the other day. I had a funny thread and I was trying to keep it alive by bumping it and arguing with myself etc but no matter what nobody wanted to participate in it so it eventually got slid lol