Payouts with zero votes? What's going on here?

At first when I saw this, I thought it just didn't load correctly or something benign like that.

When I dug a little deeper into these seemingly free rewards I found out something a little different.

By using debugging I was able to determine that there actually is a vote. Steemit just doesn't show it for some reason, even though it shows the payouts.

In this case the vote was from a certain @animalcontrol. This account seems to be a spam bot, though I'm not sure why it would be upvoting random posts. Hoping for curation rewards maybe?

Why would Steemit not show certain upvotes? I would venture a guess that it has something to do with a history of abuse. Maybe Steemit put this account on a blacklist that says not to show their votes, I don't know. Whatever the case, I'm a bit interested now.

Have you seen stuff like this before?

If you've seen these hidden votes before and you remember where, leave a comment pointing me to them. I'll examine it to see who the voter is and maybe get some kicks. Better yet, if you know something about why this happens please let me know. Better still, do whatever you want to do with your commenting.

Thanks for reading!