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# What Happens When You Accidentally Create a "-gate"
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/what-happens-when-you-accidentally-create-a-gate/
- Published: 2016-09-30T13:10:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-09-30T13:10:00.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[Stephen Hackett on his recent run in with a viral video:](https://512pixels.net/2016/09/reflections-on-hissgate/?ref=birchtree.me)

> By Saturday night and into Sunday, I felt completely overwhelmed. A 13-second video that I recorded and uploaded in just a few minutes was suddenly bigger than any other single piece of content I’d ever created. 

As a writer, I totally appreciate this phenomenon. Sometimes you spend hours on a piece and it gets very few hits, and then a little piece you crank out in 10 minutes blows up. It's an odd experience, and while I've never created a "gate," I know where Stephen is coming from. This is a fascinating read.