Good question @rameseslabs ! The key issue here to take note off for you is that my article is in fact original work and therefore has nothing to do with copy-paste "regulations". The reason it became trending (my account is just 0 months old currently, I am a Steemian N00b myself as of yet) is because it got assessed / curated by influential people and the Utopian-IO bot for its perceived high-quality, and the rest is a snowball effect coming from that.

Quality -> leads to Attention -> leads to Rewards