virality

There’s no Bluesky virality for quote-posting a pic of Timothée Chalamet and the Jenners at a Knicks game.

After her original column had experienced the 1970s version of virality, she wrote a book and toured the country “lecturing” to “rapt audiences” about “the rewards of homemaking and housewifery,” enacting a less overtly political but equally ironic interpretation of the Phyllis Schlafly playbook.

The official White House account rode the virality to post a meme casting Donald Trump as some version of a mighty King Kong who deported “142,000+ illegal alien criminals.”

Virality is as quantifiable as box-office dollars and they have decades of receipts.

These rapturous visions may not have been universally appealing in their time, although that didn’t hamper the virality of “The Young Pope.”