Polymorphism implemented strangely in Video 2 in Intermediate Rails

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While I was viewing the Video 2 in Intermediate Rails, I noticed that Matthew implemented Polymorphism in a strange way. He made the Polymorphic Relationship on the Shouts Model
but he never actively declared the other side of the relationship on the different shouts. Yet
some how the Different Shouts was still able to relate to the Shouts. The code that I have based
on the video towards the end of Video 2 looks like this:

    class Shout < ActiveRecord::Base
    belongs_to :user
    belongs_to :content, polymorphic: true
    default_scope {order("created_at DESC")}
    end

and the corresponding classes looks like:

   class TextShout < ActiveRecord::Base
   end
   
   class PhotoShout < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_attached_file :image, styles: { shout: "200x200>"}
  validates_attachment :image, content_type: { content_type: ["image/jpg", "image/jpeg",      "image/png", "image/gif"] }
  end

Has anybody else noticed that this works? I Know we used the relationship inside the text shout controller and in the photo shouts controller. But I still don’t get why that should work based on the way these models are formed. Any Ideas?