I think the views on the image page and views from your images are different. If you click the actual image does it show the amount of views? If it doesn't then i got nothing.
Also as a side note you should always be skeptical of links almost everywhere on the internet. Especially in the comments of anything.
Nope, imgflip is like a place of mystery. No-one knows how memes get featured or why things like that happen, most people will just respond with the aliens guy. It's the daruded sandstorm o'm imgflip.
