A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months

About one year’s Facebook event for the “Simple Math Competition” was one of the most viral records in the platform for six months. According to the company, the company has been considered about 51 million on Facebook in the first quarter of 2025. The most recent report on the platform “Extensive viewed content”.

This would be an impressive stat for any post, but a number of two points in the list of “Math Competition” in the most viewed content of the metage. This was about 64.3 million meetings in the last quarter report, according to the archived version of the report during this period.

So why is a random Facebook event that does not have an event that has more than 100 million views? An old badge looks like a repetition of feed tactics. The caption image for the event is a piece of paper with words that followed a simple equation that seems to be “only genius”. When shared as a Facebook post, the image is displayed in a way that may seem like a normal image post. The picture also has surprising similarities to other seemingly mathematical equations on Facebook for about 15 years.

Don’t take a look at the event page, shows that hundreds of thousands of people are doing. More than 800,000 people responded to the probable July 8, 2024. A year later, a year later, the event sees regular comments of Facebook users – most of them intend to explain how the equation should be resolved (or arguing with the interpretation of others). Like Slate noted back In 2013There is something irresistible to arithmetically arithic with strangers on the internet.

What is a little secret, so this article has passed so much viral months after being sent first. I did not hear a Nigerian based creative and immediately back to the account, on the account behind the post. The writing seems more successful than other recent posts of iBeh, about 25,000 Facebook followers.

In any case, the post offers an interesting window on the types of strange content and suspicious tactics that do not go to Mega-Viral regularly on Facebook. Meta recently said they would collapse in creative shares Spamy posts On Facebook, this type of engagement falls into the content category, it is unknown if it is clearly discouraged.