It's probably because I'm a professionally self-taught journalist.
I actually blame that headline for contributing to low views (lower than average, for me), plus it was the weekend.
And how some artificially inflate their comment numbers with token spam is kind of annoying. I've suggested in the past one comment continually updated keeping a running tally would suffice when it comes to those tokens. No dice. Now, people see a high number of comments and just expect to see token spam, so they don't click.