2M posts, 1,446 memes, 222M views: charting the Jensen Huang meme wave on X
whurley · x · 2026-11-13
whurley built This So Huang, a data-driven look at how a meme wave spreads, using the week's viral story about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as the dataset.
Key numbers (X, Nov 7-12):
- 2M posts mentioned the story in 7 days; 1,446 image/video memes (counted at 100+ likes each) racked up 222M views.
- The story broke Saturday Nov 8, giving X two days of memes before markets opened; Nvidia's share price declined from the pre-story close.
- Three synced-timeline charts overlay share price, total post volume, and meme counts hour by hour, split by image vs video format.
- Attention was heavily concentrated: the top 15 memes captured most likes, and over half of all memes appeared within the busiest few hours as each turn of the story spawned a new wave of jokes.
The author frames it as neutral counting of a spread phenomenon, offering a rare quantitative anatomy of how AI-industry memes propagate.
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