[neverrroot]

Recently, I’ve noticed that nothing hits the top spot as quickly as anything negative about Elon.

[sidibe]

Maybe very briefly before it get flagged

[tomhow]

Both are in fact true. Any highly controversial topic elicits strong emotions on both sides (as well as those who are just bored of the topic and want it to go away), and thus rapidly attracts many upvotes but also many flags.