I have a theory. Certain elements have to be present in order for something to go viral. Look around social media. What goes viral? We have news stories, those have a good chance (and a massive corporation behind it pushing it along), we have memes (a current event, piece of pop culture and someones quick wit), we have videos (comedy, news again, certain forms of abuse with graphic scene warnings). We do not see short stories, informative articles, poems, etc by unknown authors going viral. If I'm able to pull this off by writing a ridiculous story with a strange twist and a punchline at the end combined with digital art, I'd be achieving the impossible. Stories in general are not the typical media that gets passed around. It's the quick and easy stuff people consume. It doesn't require effort to watch a video of a cop shooting a dog and people feel like they are not doing their part if they don't share it. A meme is a quick laugh and a quick share. The stuff we're all providing to the world on steemit is "new". Even if someone hit that "share to facebook" button for us, there's a strong chance it will stall because someone has to go through the "effort" of opening a link and reading. Many mobile devices won't even open our stuff if the person doesn't have a proper data package set up. There are million things working against us. Getting these hits is hard.