[Retric]

That’s a reasonable point. However, while things are more likely to go viral if the original poster has many followers, but it isn’t a hard requirement.

Any of those 6 followers could start things off by sending it to people that follow them at which point it can quickly go exponential.

[brookst]

Keep in mind that Maui in December is insanely expensive. The flight would be skewed older and richer, therefore less social media.

Unless there’s some conspiracy theory, I think it’s just a case of not everything everywhere is live-streamed by influencers (yet).