Fake Facebook event in disguise as mathematical problem is one of its top posts for 6 months
Nearly a year -long Facebook event for “Simple Maths Competition” is one of the most viral posts on the platform for six months. “Event” achieved about 51 million views on Facebook in the first quarter of 2025, according to the company The latest report On the “widely seen content” on the platform.
It is an impressive stat for any single post, but it is the second quarter, respectively, in which the “Maths Competition” is the second largest content list of Meta. It also appeared in the last quarterly report, at this time, according to the archived version of the report, which received 64.3 million views.
So why not really get over 100 million views of a random Facebook event? It seems to be packing the old engagement bait strategy. The header image of the event is the image of a piece of paper with the words “only for genius”, then a simple equation. When sharing a Facebook post, the image is popularly displayed as a simple image post. The film has some amazing similarities to other simple math equations that go viral on Facebook Almost 15 years.
Considering the event page, hundreds of thousands of people show that they are engaged with the event. More than 800,000 people responded to the July 8, 2024 event. Even now, almost a year later, the program is looking at simple comments from Facebook users – most of them intend to explain how to solve the equation (or arguing with others’ commentary). AS Slate Re -marked In 2013There is something irresistible about the basic arithmetic with strangers on the Internet.
What a mystery is that this post has gone viral a few months after the first post was posted. I have reached the account behind the post of Nigeria’s Ebuca Peter Ebay, the creator of the post and did not listen back immediately. This post was more successful than the recent posts from Ibeh, which has about 25 thousand Facebook followers.
However, this post provides an interesting window in strange content and questionable strategies, which still goes on on Facebook regularly. Meta recently said the creators would reduce the partnership Spami posts On Facebook, it is clear that this type of engagement is unclear whether this type of engagement is in the content category.
