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Top Instagram reels from Goats and Soda in 2025: Plumpy'Nut, aid cuts, soccer grannies0%

By Marc Silver0% Ben de la Cruz0%

12/26/2025, 3:37:29 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Anchoring Bias, Availability Heuristic, and Representativeness Heuristic, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 48.6% saturation with 67 hits. Analysis detected 441 faulty-reasoning hits from 138 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 0% and a BS Rank of 0% (0 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 100.00% of the article peer group.

Instagram reels are reely ... er ... really popular. 
(Editor's note: It turns out that "reely" is really an alternate spelling for "really" from long ago  way before reels were invented.) 
Is there data to back this up? 
Mark Zuckerberg says so. 
The CEO of Meta, which owns Instagram as well as Facebook, reports that in 2025 reels have reached new heights on these platforms: 200 billion plays a day. 
NPR's global health and development blog was responsible for millions of those views. 
Here are our biggest Instagram reels this year. 
From left: Players celebrate during the grannies soccer tournament in South Africa. 
A Dalit kitchen in India. 
Plumpy'Nut bars manufactured at the Edesia Nutrition plant in Rhode Island. 
Mary Mayongana, 42, lost access to her HIV medicine as a result of U.S. aid cuts in Zambia. 
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
39.9%
Availability Heuristic
39.1%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Confirmation Bias
11.6%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Framing Effect
13%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Halo Effect
2.9%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Horn Effect
0%
In-Group Bias
9.4%
Loss Aversion
13%
Negativity Bias
13%
Optimism Bias
20.3%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
0%
Recency Bias
5.8%
Representativeness Heuristic
33.3%
Self-Serving Bias
9.4%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Anecdotal
48.6%
Appeal to Authority
23.2%
Appeal to Emotion
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Bandwagon
6.5%
Begging the Question
0%
Burden of Proof
5.1%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Composition/Division
0%
False Dilemma
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Hasty Generalization
12.3%
Middle Ground
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
13%
Red Herring
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Straw Man
0%
Tu Quoque
0%

138 words analyzed.

Analysis

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