Politics & activism — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q6_K_XL, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 21 August 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 99% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
36 measurements spanning 51 days, net -2,164. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 53,047–55,861 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 36
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
26 Sept 2026, 02:17
53,372
-247
19 Sept 2026, 07:40
53,619
-124
16 Sept 2026, 23:55
53,743
-34
15 Sept 2026, 00:37
53,777
-95
13 Sept 2026, 08:59
53,872
-111
11 Sept 2026, 15:18
53,983
-107
9 Sept 2026, 00:19
54,090
-153
5 Sept 2026, 13:20
54,243
-90
3 Sept 2026, 17:55
54,333
-38
2 Sept 2026, 06:42
54,371
-20
1 Sept 2026, 09:35
54,391
-53
31 Aug 2026, 06:44
54,444
-34
30 Aug 2026, 09:17
54,478
-31
29 Aug 2026, 07:36
54,509
-54
28 Aug 2026, 08:34
54,563
-55
27 Aug 2026, 09:04
54,618
-10
26 Aug 2026, 11:04
54,628
-52
25 Aug 2026, 11:22
54,680
-18
24 Aug 2026, 07:45
54,698
-85
22 Aug 2026, 16:13
54,783
first reading
Engagement
96 posts held, back to 16 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 109 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR · 30 days
4.26%
avg views ÷ 53,372 subscribers
Avg views / post
2,270
39 posts measured
Reaction rate
2.13%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
39
of 96 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.
What these figures were computed from
Window
Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 28 September 2026
Posts held
96 (16 July 2026 – 28 September 2026)
Views total
88,692
Reactions total
1,889
Forwards / comments
not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken
29 Sept 2026, 05:37 UTC
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
What this channel posts
Photos
≈352
Videos
≈102
Links
≈2,730
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 29 September 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Video runtime
2h 43m
Average length
8m 12s
Measured directly from 20 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
Reaction mix
4,691 reactions across 96 posts, in 31 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 26.6% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
👍
1,247
26.6%
💯
1,160
24.7%
❤
363
7.74%
🤬
361
7.70%
👏
331
7.06%
🤣
196
4.18%
🤡
141
3.01%
😁
118
2.52%
🙏
116
2.47%
💔
93
1.98%
🤮
91
1.94%
🤯
81
1.73%
🔥
78
1.66%
👎
61
1.30%
😢
42
0.895%
🤔
34
0.725%
💩
33
0.703%
👀
31
0.661%
😈
24
0.512%
😱
21
0.448%
11 further kinds
69
1.47%
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 96 of the 96 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 4,691 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 96 most recent posts we hold, published 16 July 2026 to 28 September 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
A massive terror plot, likely springing from Iran, was just thwarted in the UK. How did this happen? You start by importing millions of people from Islamic countries and territories, while simultaneously condemning all those who fight Islamic terrorism abroad.
@BenShapiroGang
Behold, the Gritty of Queers for Palestine. And a fitting symbol of the Western Left, at this point. https://x.com/benshapiro/status/2104626258395234656/video/1
@BenShapiroGang
The NYT put out its list of top 100 TV shows of the century. It’s actively bad. Here’s the true list. https://x.com/benshapiro/status/2103634038586327134/video/1
@BenShapiroGang
Two transgenders, a 1970s-era feminist actress, and a bisexual “as a Jew” Israel-hater all got themselves arrested yesterday because they hate the West. And they were joined by a bunch of soon-to-be-Congresspeople. America, are these the kinds of people you want representing you?
@BenShapiroGang
The United Nations remains the Mos Eisley of international politics: a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Thank God for @ jmilei and @ secrubio. https://x.com/benshapiro/status/2103248028354146396/video/1
@BenShapiroGang
It’s the nuttiest nut-free story of the day: a crazy lesbian bar in Massachusetts that’s going to go bankrupt because they refuse to charge entry, but also because they decided to remove their masks, but also because one of the founders went to clown school. https://x.com/benshapiro/status/2103231921321021561/video/1
@BenShapiroGang
Bill Burr remains a turd. After spending a year celebrating the murder of a CEO at the hands of Luigi Mangione, he’s now criticizing CEOs for getting security. Presumably he’d rather they consider what they did to cause their own murders as they bleed out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCmPc2SPMjs
@BenShapiroGang
Hollywood hands an iconic Christian fairy tale over to a Left-winger, who immediately butchers it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSPCqvyMFqg
@BenShapiroGang
Meritocracy isn't the problem. It's the solution. And the fact that both parties are now moving toward wholesale rejection of meritocracy spells the end of American innovation, freedom, and strength.
@BenShapiroGang
The media couldn’t be more excited about President Trump’s “ban” on CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House. Now they get to pretend to be stalwart “objective” journalists standing for freedom, rather than the partisan hacks they are. But let’s be clear: they’re partisan
@BenShapiroGang
Dario Amodei frantically warned the world we need to "Pace the Frontier" of AI. His biggest competitor Sam Altman immediately agreed. Both are now asking Washington to slow down the very technology making them rich. Is their cry of imminent danger to humanity real, or the most
@BenShapiroGang
👀31👍11🤔4❤2🤡2
Showing the 12 most recent of 96 posts we hold for @BenShapiroGang. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Channels Telegram recommends alongside this one
Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.
Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 23 August 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
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This channel appears in 24 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 26 September 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Ben Shapiro Gang” (@BenShapiroGang), 53,372 subscribers as measured 26 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/BenShapiroGang.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.