Technology — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 11 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 98% 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
15 measurements spanning 41 days, net -769. 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 8,799–9,798 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
16 Sept 2026, 20:01
8,914
-126
12 Sept 2026, 18:37
9,040
-62
8 Sept 2026, 19:40
9,102
-128
3 Sept 2026, 02:09
9,230
-46
30 Aug 2026, 16:12
9,276
-35
28 Aug 2026, 01:45
9,311
-44
25 Aug 2026, 00:29
9,355
-65
21 Aug 2026, 12:49
9,420
-82
18 Aug 2026, 04:32
9,502
-52
15 Aug 2026, 05:38
9,554
-30
12 Aug 2026, 08:12
9,584
-51
9 Aug 2026, 05:01
9,635
-46
6 Aug 2026, 11:20
9,681
-2
6 Aug 2026, 10:16
9,683
no change
6 Aug 2026, 09:53
9,683
first reading
Engagement
88 posts held, back to 19 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 34 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR · 30 days
3.23%
avg views ÷ 8,914 subscribers
Avg views / post
288
2 posts measured
Reaction rate
1.39%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
2
of 88 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 29 August 2026
Posts held
88 (19 July 2026 – 29 August 2026)
Views total
575
Reactions total
8
Forwards / comments
not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken
29 Aug 2026, 07:15 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
Video runtime
2h 55m
Average length
3m 35s
Measured directly from 49 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
3,053 reactions across 88 posts, in 37 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 20.6% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
❤
630
20.6%
💯
467
15.3%
👍
332
10.9%
🤬
247
8.09%
💩
176
5.76%
😈
173
5.67%
🤔
150
4.91%
🔥
141
4.62%
🙏
128
4.19%
👎
115
3.77%
🤡
79
2.59%
🤮
55
1.80%
😡
54
1.77%
👏
50
1.64%
👀
38
1.24%
😱
30
0.983%
🤣
30
0.983%
😁
29
0.95%
😢
28
0.917%
🥱
16
0.524%
17 further kinds
85
2.78%
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 88 of the 88 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 3,053 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 88 most recent posts we hold, published 19 July 2026 to 29 August 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.
Ed Zitron just said something Wall Street never wanted public: OpenAI misses the IPO — Your 401(k) pays the bill
OpenAI doesn’t go public.
It runs out of cash.
They need $100 billion a year just to survive.
They’ve delayed the IPO.
They have $1.1 trillion in cloud commitments.
SoftBank is sitting on ~$100 billion of paper OpenAI stock it can’t sell.
Oracle is building $400B+ of data centers for one customer.
Amazo…
Ed Zitron just said what OpenAI, Google and Microsoft always denied — generative AI is a con.
They sold it as magic.
It would replace every job.
It would cure cancer.
Look at it now.
Boring cloud software.
Extremely expensive.
Unprofitable.
Unreliable at its core.
70% of all “AI revenue” comes from two companies that cannot afford to exist without the same giants funding them.
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Everyone keeps asking
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Ed’s answer:
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Mark Zuckerberg.
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Dario Amodei.
Not some future villain.
Not a secret lab in Beijing.
The three men running the labs right now.
They told you the danger was China.
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Obama’s former deputy national security advisor just exposed how the International Criminal Court actually works:
The ICC was built to go after African dictators. That’s who they actually prosecute.
Then they indicted Putin — and Washington celebrated. “Standing up for international law.”
Then the exact same prosecutor charged Netanyahu with the exact same crimes against humanity.
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Then White Sands footprints forced it back to 22,000.
Then other sites started stacking:
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50–60,000 in Brazil.
130,000 at the Cerutti Mastodon.
Then Hueyatlaco.
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Joe Rogan just exposed the biggest psyop of the 1960s
Timothy Leary admitted 80% of his decisions came directly from the CIA.
Timothy Leary ADMITTED he was a CIA asset.
“I would say that 80% of my movements, 80% of the decisions I made were suggested to me by CIA people. I like the CIA.”
He wasn’t some free-spirited hippie guru.
He was an “important national asset” since 1962.
While the CIA was running MKUltra…
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A mother strangles her three kids to death… Feminists are rallying to protect her. What the actual hell is wrong with these people?
And the feminists? Out in pink shirts outside the courthouse cheering her on like she’s a martyr. “She needed help!” “I could’ve been Lindsay!”
No. Millions of moms struggle with exhaustion, pain, and mental health without murdering their children.
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Showing the 12 most recent of 88 posts we hold for @DefiantGhost. 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.
Forward network
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Mentions
Named by 13 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
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 16 September 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Defiant Ghost” (@DefiantGhost), 8,914 subscribers as measured 16 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/DefiantGhost.
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.