Thank you for this. There's unpredictability and I have seen it. I have received whale votes out of nowhere at times. Sometimes, expectations don't get fulfilled. There's an element of surprise.

It also depends who is seeing the post. May be the influential people are not online when the post is published and it gets skipped.

Overall, I think you have clarified it for me. It is like the real life. It doesn't have to be the way we want it to be but there always is something to cherish.