The Long Tail of Everything

Hacker News is a rather popular site, and I read a lot of it for fun.

Yet I did not know there are so many kaggle.com submissions on it with so little upvotes:

Another example: there are many notebooks on kaggle yet the majority of notebooks never receive many upvotes:

(data from: https://www.kaggle.com/code/aleksandradeis/how-to-get-upvotes-for-a-kernel-on-kaggle#Explore-statistics-for-kernel-votes)

Reviewing what the Long Tail is:

Welp, if I were to write an eloquent blog like this one on bicycle, I need to talk about how the long tail is a power law and search for other examples of the long tail (niche sites selling laptop chargers on the internet, etc.), and perhaps make novel animations....but that's a bit time consuming and life gets in the way.