It does, I'm not going to comment on whether that's a good or bad thing, but I can say it definitely does. People always look for "hot stuff" , that is, whatever is trending at this period in time, suppose you wrote an elaborate article explaining relativity or something, it may not receive the same kind of payout (unless you have a 65+ rep and 1000+ followers) as a post that is about the "flash crash" eth had yesterday (just as an example) ..however, your article describing relativity will obviously have way more views from google, because it is 'evergreen' like you say.
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Not many people are interested in the current news and updates several months later, so the total views of such posts will not continue to grow after some time