>>173251luck does play a factor, or well social media recommendation algorithms, you can go from some nobody grinding out content for years with little traction, to someone gaining millions of views overnight if you hit the right notes for a viral video in everyone's reccomendation feed
joel harver is a pretty good recent example of this after these got recommended to everyone
https://youtu.be/SY3y6zNTiLshttps://youtu.be/iP468OEln4U