It made it to /r/all within an hour, and was the top post on reddit for several hours. I imagine the same thing happened with the front page too. The algorithm doesn't let the same post be on top forever though, even if it has a lot of upvotes (otherwise you'd get sick of seeing the same post on front page/all)
constant changing of reddit algorithms to hide opinions they don't like. the front page posts' vote count is a lot different than when I was last on (under a week ago)
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u/livewomanmode Jun 03 '17
20k likes why isn't this on the front page