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@crushedlikeabugintheground
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84subscribers
+11 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1002691555596 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @crushedlikeabugintheground |
| Created | Between 1 March 2025 and 31 July 2025 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 9 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 10 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 10 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/crushedlikeabugintheground |
Other / unclassifiable — 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 28 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 69% 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.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Oct 2026, 03:01 | 84 | +6 |
| 29 Sept 2026, 07:36 | 78 | +3 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 00:57 | 75 | -1 |
| 8 Sept 2026, 10:41 | 76 | -2 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 01:04 | 78 | +2 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 08:56 | 76 | +3 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 22:31 | 73 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 19:00 | 73 | first reading |
11 posts held, back to 5 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 11 posts for this entry, the most recent from 9 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
40 reactions across 10 posts, in 8 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 32.5% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 13 | 32.5% | |
| 😭 | 8 | 20.0% | |
| ❤🔥 | 5 | 12.5% | |
| 👏 | 4 | 10.0% | |
| ⚡ | 3 | 7.50% | |
| 💔 | 3 | 7.50% | |
| 🍓 | 2 | 5.00% | |
| 🗿 | 2 | 5.00% |
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 11 of the 11 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 40 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 11 most recent posts we hold, published 5 August 2026 to 9 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.
Ain't it pretty crazy that probably 95% of everything we learn up until the time we gain enough consciousness to start reflecting and introspecting are from environment, upbringing and societal indoctrination paired with survival instinct and trauma responses that happen subconsciously? Isn't it even crazier that a lot of people never reach that level of consciousness to even fathom introspection?
😭3❤1
Signed The MyT Rook
Black and white thinking is arguably one of the biggest reasons for people being so easy to manipulate by the masses. It also just so happens to be one of the biggest reasons for the prevalence of racism, pseudo-nationalism, misogyny, misandry, and ignorance in human history and the modern day and age. People have to learn dialectic thinking. dialectic thinking is the analytical ability to hold two contradictory opi…
❤3
Signed The MyT Rook
No shaming does not mean no accountability.
❤1
Signed The MyT Rook
The same goes for a Woman.
❤2
Signed The MyT Rook
Photo, posted without a caption
❤🔥4⚡2🗿1
Signed The MyT Rook
pick a random one and see what you get ig?
❤1🗿1
Signed The MyT Rook
uhhh-
Signed The MyT Rook
Reality can be stranger than fiction. Take a step back and look at it whole, It's sensical to believe the unrealistic, It's strange to believe the realistic, If only we were all bold enough to walk ourselves into what's unrealistic, we'd understand just how realistic it all truly is. It takes a courageous heart to believe in the unrealistic. It takes a responsible heart to choose what to believe in.
❤2👏1
Signed The MyT Rook
What kind of curse is it to be able to love others at their worst but be unable to love yourself even at your best?
😭5💔3
Signed The MyT Rook
Photo, posted without a caption
❤3🍓2⚡1
Signed The MyT Rook
I sat upon a mountain of bone and skull, Each fractured piece puncturing me like a pincushion, The rotting teeth still whispering my name, The empty eye sockets still judging my blood stained palms, I rip from my skin, to cover the mount, Tripping over my own feet, stepping on bone after bone, Only to cover an eye, finger or ankle of the thousand others, Skinned limbs and a bleeding nobody, with still a mountain of …
👏3❤🔥1
Signed The MyT Rook
Showing the 11 most recent of 11 posts we hold for @crushedlikeabugintheground. 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.
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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.
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 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Letters to Icarus ;” (@crushedlikeabugintheground), 84 subscribers as measured 10 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/crushedlikeabugintheground.
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.