I saved the page on archive.is and it shows the same thing.
I know the "24 hour" period restarts midnight EST, but I would think more than these 2 images have been upvoted in the several minutes it's been. (It's still these 2 images several minutes after I archived it. It could be a general problem of KYM being slow to update.)
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There are only 2 "Most Liked" images of the last 24 hours right now.
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There are two minor problems here that turn into an equally minor, but way more funky one.
First, KYM has always been weird near the daily (nightly?) rollover. Users will click a random entry and it will be the only "Also Trending" article despite being from 2011. The most commented, most viewed, and – as you mention – most liked sections also behave like this.
It also lets you do funny things to the "recently searched" bar, but that's another story (see below).
The other issue is that voting (and view tallies, favorites, comment counts, so on) is slow. Karma and favorites have always been slow to update, to the point where users? who retract their votes can cause negative values and so forth. Don't forget, the underlying site performance was why features such as the vote timer were added in the first place. You can read more about the disaster that is our vote system here (just keep digging)