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Channel
ÆD BØY
@aed_boy
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
37subscribers
-2 since we began measuring on 15 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001535320532 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @aed_boy |
| Created | Between 1 August 2021 and 28 February 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 15 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 9 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 3 times, most recently 9 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/aed_boy |
Topic
Memes & entertainment — 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 30 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 61% 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
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Sept 2026, 14:59 | 37 | +1 |
| 7 Sept 2026, 11:57 | 36 | -4 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 13:42 | 40 | +1 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 11:30 | 39 | no change |
| 15 Aug 2026, 11:18 | 39 | first reading |
Engagement
19 posts held, back to 3 August 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 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 19 posts for this entry, the most recent from 14 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
What this channel posts
- Video runtime
- 1m 21s
- Average length
- 41s
Measured directly from 2 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
31 reactions across 12 posts, in 9 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 29.0% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 9 | 29.0% | |
| ⚡ | 8 | 25.8% | |
| ❤🔥 | 4 | 12.9% | |
| 🔥 | 4 | 12.9% | |
| 👍 | 2 | 6.45% | |
| custom 5213447602732813642 | 1 | 3.23% | |
| custom 5388646216454121816 | 1 | 3.23% | |
| custom 5447191366637476040 | 1 | 3.23% | |
| 💩 | 1 | 3.23% |
Custom emoji. 3 of the rows above are Telegram custom emoji, which the public preview renders as an element carrying only a numeric id — no character, and no image we can reach. The id is printed as-is rather than substituted with a look-alike glyph, because a stand-in would be our invention showing where a measurement should be. The counts beside them are Telegram’s.
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 12 of the 19 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 31 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 19 most recent posts we hold, published 3 August 2026 to 14 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.
Recent posts
Video, posted without a caption
❤2
Photo, posted without a caption
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All this stress just to die?
To see the world not as a problem to be solved or a happiness to be achieved, but as a canvas, a narrative, a composition in which the most terrible passages are essential to the whole. The authentic philosophical life is one that embraces “this is not enough” and yet proceeds to write, with relentless inspiration, the masterpiece of its own existence.
Contemporary philosophy, he suggests, must similarly pursue the horrific—not as an exception, but as something intrinsic to our being, a space where the distinction between good and evil blurs, much as in the Lurianic Kabbalah, where the vessels shattered and sparks became inextricably mixed with shells. In this light, the most profound sincerity is the recognition that any order of things leaves us with the feeling:…
The Philosophy of Alexander Shapiro: Ecstasy, Tragedy, and Life as a Work of Art Alexander Shapiro’s thought emerges from a dialogue that refuses the consolations of ordinary happiness. His philosophy is an invitation to radical reorientation: away from comfort, success, and psychological self-fulfillment, toward an aesthetic justification of existence in which the worst becomes the raw material for a hidden masterp…
The current owners of Myspace, Chris and Tim Vanderhook, have publicly confirmed that they are planning a relaunch of the platform. One of the key ideas they've discussed is creating an alternative to today's algorithm-driven social media environment, which they argue has become dominated by endless scrolling, engagement optimization, and addictive recommendation systems. The relaunch is reportedly being framed arou…
Photo, posted without a caption
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I’ve never been judged by successful people. It’s always the fucking losers who judge me.
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Video, posted without a caption
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Showing the 12 most recent of 19 posts we hold for @aed_boy. 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.
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 15 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“ÆD BØY” (@aed_boy), 37 subscribers as measured 15 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/aed_boy.
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.