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Same here, don't think it is localised to India.

Same in US. How did this fly to the top so quickly?

Probably people upvoting it without opening, just assuming the headline accurately says what it is.

Or Bots; maybe it has Ads on it?

I sometime upvote things as a sort of "read it later" technique. I've seen other users do this, so maybe that's what happened?

same here, hugged it probably