"Forbiddistan" is a coinage by Sebastian Bieniek—who regards this invented word as a work of art—and he resides in what was once the capital of Germany and is now the capital of Forbiddistan: Berlin. The artist, who considers only political art to be true art, believes that artists must be political; they must engage—and have always engaged—with the world around them, rather than living in an aquarium sealed off fro…

Channel
First Flush News
@FirstFlushNews
On this record: Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
1,480subscribers
-4 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001208971990 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @FirstFlushNews |
| Created | 17 January 2021 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 10 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 10 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/FirstFlushNews |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Aug 2026, 19:11 | 1,480 | -3 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 09:14 | 1,483 | -1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 11:37 | 1,484 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 09:50 | 1,484 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 4 June 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 2 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 0.338%
- avg views ÷ 1,480 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 5.0
- 1 post measured
- Reaction rate
- —
- this channel exposes no reaction counts
- Posts in window
- 1
- of 20 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.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 14 July 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 20 (4 June 2026 – 14 July 2026) |
| Views total | 5 |
| Reactions total | — |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 7 Aug 2026, 18:15 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
- 42m 01s
- Average length
- 7m 00s
Measured directly from 6 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.
Recent posts
„German Angst“, photo by Sebastian Bieniek. From the art series „Germany after Corona“. More: www.bieniek.at #SebastianBieniek #Bieniek #GermanAngst #BieniekGermany #Kunst
Sebastian Bieniek - a runaway drift - song Born in the shadows where the borders shift A child of the concrete, a runaway drift Moved to Berlin when the wall hit the floor Looking for light through a cracked open door At Kunsthaus Tacheles, the anarchists screamHe painted his eyes to remember the dreamWith lipstick and charcoal, he shattered the lensWhere the true mask begins and the fake reality ends Sebastian Bie…
CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT BEFORE CORONA PEOPLE STARTED THEIR DAY WITH A LOOK TROUGH THE WINDOW TO SEE HOW BEAUTIFUL THE WORLD IS AND AFTERWARDS TO THE SMARTPHONE TO CHECK WHETHER THE WORLD STILL EXISTS OR NOT? Textartwork by Sebastian Bieniek, 23.06.2026. Oil and acrylic on board. 59 x 49 cm. From the „Dollar Green Series“ More: Bieniek.at
My biggest fu*k you to all governments on earth! Believe it or not: I‘m coming for you, one after the other, and will get you all. Dead or alive. Sebastian Bieniek, 30.06.2026 Video: Hannah Arendt More: Bieniek.at
Everything that a State is and owns was once illegally taken by Force and Arms. So how can a State be Legal? From the „Dollar Green“ series of Textpaintings by Sebastian Bieniek, 2026. Title: „The White Paper of an Anarchist“. Oil an acrylic on board, 55 x 64 cm. More: Bieniek.at
"The biggest Mystery to an Artist is the question How do I sell my Art", Sebastian Bieniek, 18.06.2026. Painting, oil on canvas. More: Bieniek.at
The saddest thing is that he has no idea how ridiculous he looks posting this without a picture of Sebastian Bieniek with 20 years too More: Bieniek.at
It‘s hard and hurtful only to be judged by the beauty of my person and body and the genius of my art. How would you feel? Would you say: it could be worse or lets do a revolution? More Beauty: Bieniek.at #sebastianbieniek #bieniek #revolution #bieniek #mostbeautifulartistalive
NO WORDS can describe the deepness and beauty of this painting to me. I’m so speechless when looking at it and can’t believe that I’m the painter myself. Do you know another artist who’s so impressed by the genius of his own work? If so please wrote the name in the comments. BTW, can you read the text, or can your AI do so? IT`S IMPORTANT, because it’s my first work from my NEW ANTI AI artworks series colled Antiai…
🚨 THE ULTIMATE ART HEIST OR TOTAL GENIUS? 🎨🗑 You won't believe what this artist found in a dumpster at a famous Berlin gallery in 1999! When the exhibition of legendary conceptual artist Sol LeWitt ended at KW Berlin, workers literally started throwing his famous sculpture "Cube Without A Corner" straight into the trash container. Sebastian Bieniek couldn’t believe his eyes, intercepted the workers, and rescued the m…
A priest whose face is expanded and simultaneously united by another face. Instead of being lost in this unnatural constellation, the opposite occurs. The eyes are more focused, and the figure is more present. One has the impression that the person only found themselves through the second face and only thereby became what they are. A mystical fascination emanates from the painting "Threeeye No. 5" by Sebastian Bienie…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @FirstFlushNews. 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.
Citation-graph rank
Citation-graph rank — 905,258 of 1,151,006entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Forward network
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Republishes
Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.
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 1 registered channel — 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 10 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“First Flush News” (@FirstFlushNews), 1,480 subscribers as measured 10 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/FirstFlushNews.
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.