A new column has gone up! Free to read! No paywall ever! :) https://briancates.substack.com/p/heres-your-annual-reminder-that-political
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Channel
@WeTheMediaOG
On this record: Also posting the same content · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
4,832subscribers
-18 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
| Telegram ID | -1002341509421 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @WeTheMediaOG |
| Created | Between 1 September 2024 and 31 March 2025— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 13 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 13 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/WeTheMediaOG |
This channel’s posts match, word for word or near enough, posts on 1 other registered channel, found by comparing text fingerprints across every channel on the register. That matching has been checked by hand against the live Telegram pages and found reliable — 0 wrong of 45 pairs re-read.
Which channel, if either, published first is deliberately not shown. The same hand-check found that reading wrong 18 of 45 times — 60%, no better than a coin flip — because it depends on how deep our own crawl happened to reach into each channel’s history, not on when the content was actually first posted. This list is ordered by subscriber count, the same as every other listing on this site, never by which channel we think came first. Word-for-word matching has several ordinary explanations besides copying — a channel mirroring itself, an unattributed repost, or two channels independently repeating the same wire story — and this measurement cannot tell those apart. How this is measured.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Aug 2026, 03:48 | 4,832 | -6 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 03:31 | 4,838 | -10 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 00:00 | 4,848 | -2 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 11:30 | 4,850 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 11:25 | 4,850 | first reading |
31 posts held, back to 29 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 8 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
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 11 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 31 (29 July 2026 – 11 August 2026) |
| Views total | 63,520 |
| Reactions total | 2,710 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 12 Aug 2026, 05:15 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.
Measured directly from 8 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.
2,710 reactions across 31 posts, in 21 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 28.0% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🔥 | 760 | 28.0% | |
| 💯 | 431 | 15.9% | |
| 👏 | 288 | 10.6% | |
| 🤣 | 254 | 9.37% | |
| 🤬 | 210 | 7.75% | |
| ❤ | 154 | 5.68% | |
| 🙏 | 151 | 5.57% | |
| 👍 | 118 | 4.35% | |
| 🤡 | 90 | 3.32% | |
| 🤔 | 72 | 2.66% | |
| 😁 | 46 | 1.70% | |
| 💩 | 33 | 1.22% | |
| 🤯 | 30 | 1.11% | |
| 👀 | 27 | 0.996% | |
| 👎 | 13 | 0.48% | |
| ❤🔥 | 10 | 0.369% | |
| 🤓 | 8 | 0.295% | |
| 😈 | 7 | 0.258% | |
| 🌚 | 5 | 0.185% | |
| 👌 | 2 | 0.074% | |
| 1 further kind | 1 | 0.037% |
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 31 of the 31 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 2,710reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 31 most recent posts we hold, published 29 July 2026 to 11 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.
A new column has gone up! Free to read! No paywall ever! :) https://briancates.substack.com/p/heres-your-annual-reminder-that-political
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Signed Brian Cates
NEW🆕❗️: Flock Safety has put 120,000+ cameras across 49 states. One of its biggest investors also backs Toka, a cyber intelligence company that advertises systems access, data exfiltration and covert entry — and whose technology has reportedly been capable of altering camera footage. Same investor. Very different mission. And somehow, that was only the beginning of this story. I followed the thread through Las Ve…
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So did NBC News bring on their top RussiaGate analyst to discuss the recent declassifications of the FBI counter intelligence investigations into President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions? To talk about code names Oxferd Comma and March Toll? Of course I’m talking about Andrew McCabe. Did they bring him on yet to talk about this? If not, why not?
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DANGEROUS...with COFFEE! What Happens To A Shadow Government... ...when it ain't got no mo' shadows to hide in? I hope you're paying attention, because as the declassifications continue to unscroll, we're finding out. What happens. To a shadow government. That can't hide in the shadows any more. And can't avoid the BEAM OF LIGHT. Preshow Music Presentation begins at 9:30 am ET Live show kicks off at 10:00 am E…
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I am behind the WNBA 'Team Girls Just Wanna Play Ball' vs the WNBA 'Team Bow The Knee To The Woke Mind Virus'. Have you chosen a team yet? https://briancates.substack.com/p/the-culture-war-against-the-woke
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ICYMI‼️: Hunter Biden tells BBC Newsnight that his father’s prostate cancer has “metastasized into his bones and further,” describing it as painful and debilitating. Joe Biden, 83, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer in May 2025, which his office said at the time appeared hormone-sensitive and manageable. The former president, Hunter says, is still making public appearances. XPOST | SUBSTACK | …
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Video, posted without a caption
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Everyday life as a true American 🤔
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DANGEROUS...with COFFEE! Today's Exciting Topic: When the COVID PLANDEMIC STREAM & The 2020 ELECTION RIGGING STREAMS CROSS Each Other... ...NOTHING will ever be the same. Be of good cheer, little flock. It is your Heavenly Father's good pleasure to continue to kick the living shit out of the shadow government and drive it into the BEAM OF LIGHT. Where it will WITHER AND DIE FOR ALL TIME. PATRIOTS ARE IN CONTROL.…
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When the shadow government’s COVID psychological operation stream targeting the American public crosses with the shadow government’s 2020 election rigging stream… Nothing will ever be the same. They did that to all of us to help them rig an election. They killed millions of people with a carefully thought out psychological operation based on creating as much fear and mass hysteria as possible. To help them steal …
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On the latest DSA actor candidate Francesca Hong: This so-over-the-top-it's-an-op thing might have to get to the point Hong is openly babbling live on camera about rounding up all the voters who don't vote for her and sending them to reeducation camps... ...and the FAKE NEWS POLLS still show Hong intrepidly being competitive in the race... ,...for people to figure out THAT THE FAKE NEWS IS JUST FUCKING WITH THEM. …
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Speaking the truth! 💥
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Showing the 12 most recent of 31 posts we hold for @WeTheMediaOG. 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 — 831,545 of 1,160,990entries 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.
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.
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.
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
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.
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 13 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“We The Media OG” (@WeTheMediaOG), 4,832 subscribers as measured 13 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/WeTheMediaOG.
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.