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Sometimes people I knew would send me a link when they saw it on “Housekeeping 101”, for example – where 800,000 people
viewed it in less than 2 weeks and 32,000 of them then shared it with other people and who knows how many other Facebook
pages it then appeared on which like I said I had no idea about. But it’s very safe to assume that on some of those pages it must
have certainly collected well over a million more views each. I can say that because one of those pages brought to my attention
had posted this pic about a week before I found it and when I first saw it there were about 3 million views so far. And it was
collecting new views at the rate of – hang on to your hats – 800 views per minute. That pace continued for another week before
slowly tapering down. It was quite an entertaining diversion for me to bookmark that page and refresh it every few minutes. I
kept notes and I kept yelling out excitedly to the boys or Susan “Hey! Another TWELVE THOUSAND people looked at this
photo just in the last FIFTEEN MINUTES!!” and “Hey! Uh.. In the last two hours, enough people saw this photo to completely
fill Wembley Stadium!” Neither of those statements are exaggerations, by the way; the total view count was going up by over a
million every day. Yes, over a million people every day. Too bad no residuals or royalty payments for me. Tragically, the photo
completely disappeared from that Facebook site suddenly in week three, which was quite disappointing because it was
completely outranking every other post on their page by orders of magnitude and the numbers while slowing were still coming
in and the last time I saw it, the total view count was an insane 7.1 million. If you consider that some of those viewers most
certainly had some spouses or roommates or coworkers nearby who were called over to “hey come over here and look at this
photo of a cop and a police dog wearing a police shirt!” then the total number of people who actually saw the photo just on that
one page would of course be well over 7.1 million; probably closer to 8, 9, or 10 million?

I was able to regularly search the original photo on Google Image Search; a typical result would yield about 30 or 4o different
websites it was currently seen on. One time for some reason it showed me some Facebook links, mostly from foreign countries.
I’m talking Asia, and Europe and I think some in Africa– I could tell for sure some were in Thailand and Romania and Australia
and Japan; there were also more than few from the Ukraine/Russia, Vietnam, Croatia, Slovakia, France and Italy, Greece,
Czechoslovakia, China. Considering how many millions of times it was shared it’s fair to guess it popped up on screens in in
dozens and dozens of different countries.

There were some other Facebook pages that I just happened to see this picture on; although like I said most of the postings
eluded my attention, due in no small part to the fact that I had only 55 or so facebook “friends” and so my connections were
rather limited and even up the year 2018 it was still unfortunately impossible to search the world of Facebook for specific photos.

So. How many people total, worldwide, saw this picture? I have no clue because Facebook didn’t have a picture search feature
and I have no idea how many times it got posted that escaped my attention. But I feel confident (and conservative) by saying in
the first year it started showing up, probably twenty million people saw it. A few years later, who knows, that number could
easily be doubled. Which is completely mind boggling, if you think about it.