[nashashmi]

The kid tried to do it again. It didn't work. The reason it worked the first time was people bought it out of curiosity then it went viral over traditional news media and then original purchasers reaped profits leading to further hype leading to further buying craze leading to further frenzy.

Eventually the last bit of 1000 pixels went for 37k.

If the kid had extended the page another million pixels, you could have measured the peak interest and the subsequent decline.