If you done that directly to your site then you might of messed everything up.
When Google spots a sudden surge in backlinks leading to your site they think that your up to something and they will look into it and possibly your site may get penalised (De-indexed , Sandboxed etc).
In order to counter that you need to keep the link velocity flowing so that it looks natural to Google. Just keep building links to your site daily and it will all be normal again in a short time![]()
What if some site creates an article/video/image that suddenly gets very popular and get loads of backlinks?
Google: hmmm that's not right lets De-index , Sandbox him etc when he doesn't keep up with this amount of linkbuilding