I don’t think it’s tricking anyone personally, it seems to me to just be bored people making stories from something “procedural”; like Dwarf Fortress stories if there was minimal game.
Part of why it went viral I think is because ongoing trends developed between races, like yellow bumping orange close to the finish, that spur the imagination. This is the goal of proceduralism whether it’s an entire world simulation or horse plinko.
I called it an audience game instead of anything else or slop because the game is the act of spectating an automatic process. It’s spiritually similar to saltybet. I find the whole thing fascinating, personally.