possible reasons why a post you think is important only has a few notes:

-the OP isn’t massively popular

-the post was made literally five minutes ago (or at least has only been around a short amount of time)

-the post hasn’t been reblogged by anyone massively popular

things you can do about it:

-reblog the post (especially if you yourself are massively popular)

-ask your friends to reblog the post

things you can maybe refrain from doing:

-make one of those passive aggressive notes about how see how no one cares about this or why doesn’t this have more notes or if you don’t reblog this WE ARE DONE/YOU ARE TERRIBLE

reasons to refrain from doing this:

-guilt tripping is bad

-some people don’t reblog things because they’re triggering or they’re not on tumblr at the moment or they don’t want to trigger followers or it just doesn’t fit their blogs

-frankly it’s none of your fucking business why someone has refrained from reblogging a post because that’s not your blog

-seriously lots of people will refuse to reblog posts with those notes specifically because the notes are upsetting and manipulative