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> Viral Hippo posted a photo of a black square.

> And yet within 24 hours, it amassed over 1,500 likes from a group that included a verified model followed by 296,000 people

Are you sure it is fake? Modern art has long history of similar stunts.'Viralhippo' account has good following and posts memes, black square could easily go viral.

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BuzzFeed created the Viral Hippo account and black square post.

You realize that verified accounts don't get all their followers legitimately, right?

All those folks you constantly see following you? Yeah, they're not doing that because they think you're swell; they're automated follows in the hopes you follow back,and then they unfollow soon after or some time later to lower their following count.

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