The mysterious tale of India’s TikTok ban and a flower picture getting 75M daily hits

India banned TikTok and 59 other Chinese apps last year. This gave birth to a bunch of other short video apps that have expanded rapidly and receive millions of hits every day. But there’s something else that gained a ton of traffic after the TikTok ban: a picture of a flower on Wikimedia. This image picture received more than 75 million daily hits — almost 20% of Wikimedia’s requests for images. You may have important questions such as “what the fuck?” and “how the fuck?” — but me explain how did this happen. It came to the fore when someone from the…

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