A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months

An event on Facebook was nearly a year of “Simple Mathematics Competition”, one of the most viral posts on the platform for six months. The “event” achieved about 51 million views on Facebook during the first quarter of 2025, according to the company’s recent report on “the widely displayed content” on the platform.

This will be an impressive statistic for any one publication, but this is the second successive quarter in which the “Mathematics Competition” canceled second place in the Meta content list that is widely displayed. It also appeared in the last quarter report, and during that time he received about 64.3 million views, according to an archived copy of the report.

So why did a random on Facebook not an event getting more than 100 million views? It appears that the old bait tactic to participate. The head image of this event is an image of a piece of paper with the phrase “only for genius”, which appears to be a simple equation. When sharing it as a post on Facebook, the image is displayed prominent in a way that may look like a normal picture post. The image also contains some amazing similarities with other simple mathematics equations that have been on Facebook for nearly 15 years.

A look at the same event page shows that hundreds of thousands of people have participated in this event. More than 800,000 people responded to the supposed July 8 event. To date, about a year later, this event is witnessing regular comments from Facebook users – most of them intend to explain how to solve the equation seriously (or argument with the interpretation of others). like Regulation It was observed in 2013, there is nothing to resist about the primary account argument with strangers on the Internet.

What is some ambiguity is the reason that this post ended months after it was originally published. I contacted the account behind The Post, a creator of its Nigerian headquarters called Ebuka Peter Ibeh and did not hear immediately. The post seems to be much more successful than any other recent posts than IBEH, which has about 25,000 followers on Facebook.

However, the post offers an interesting window in strange types and doubtful tactics that are still working regularly on Facebook. Meta recently said that she will launch creators who share random post posts on Facebook, although it is unclear whether this type of participation taste will decrease in the content category that expressly tries to discharge.