Channel
@itisthenews
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167subscribers
+3 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001696930969 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @itisthenews |
| Created | 31 August 2022 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 10 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 10 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/itisthenews |
Gaming — 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 25 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 67% 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, 16:22 | 167 | +2 |
| 7 Sept 2026, 23:38 | 165 | -1 |
| 30 Aug 2026, 01:07 | 166 | +2 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 16:30 | 164 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 19:52 | 164 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 28 May 2025 — 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 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 29 July 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
french musician Kavinsky was found dead in his home :( https://www.liberation.fr/culture/musique/le-dj-francais-kavinsky-50-ans-retrouve-mort-a-son-domicile-parisien-20260729_AUWACGKOGVCYNMWKDXRB42K674/
sony intends to stop production of physical game media in january 2028 in response to their desire for more money ❝shifting consumer preference❞. there are nearly four thousand comments on their blog post and all of them are overwhelmingly negative. https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/
kier starmer has resigned as prime minister https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckger03mrl0t
nintendo did another direct thing. • zelda ocarina of time remake releasing this year • kingdom hearts 4 exists and will suck the switch 2’s dick, KH 1-3 for switch 2 releases 8th october, KH3+ReMind demo today • deltarune chapter 5 releases 24th june • rhythm heaven groove releases 2nd july • final fantasy resonance releases 22nd october • star fox launches 25th june, demo out today • big walk releases 4th august o…
the one engineer who still works at microsoft took a moment to write damage control a blog post about microsoft's commitment to shit nobody wants quality. your fckn news correspondent for desperate pleas to stop switching to linux or mac has reviewed it and given it a sloppy 1 out of 10. microsoft pinky promises that future updates to windows 11 will: - add back in the ability to move the taskbar to the left, right o…
a giant underground steel pipe being used as a retaining structure for underground sewer construction work rose more than ten metres above the ground overnight in osaka. https://apnews.com/article/japan-osaka-pipe-underground-pipe-rise-474d725b9a714ac556a8379c1e470fd8
disgraced former south korean prime minister yoon suk yeol has been formally convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the attempted insurrection https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq8gy8nexvdt
“death stranding 2: what if australia was real” will be coming to PC on the 19th of March this year (just over a month from now). https://store.steampowered.com/app/3280350/DEATH_STRANDING_2_ON_THE_BEACH
they put up a second trailer revealing it’ll be on steam, xbox series whatever, and switch 1 and 2. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Le2VFSdYzPw
konami announced that they remembered metal gear solid 4 exists and that it can’t be played on anything but a PS3, so they’re releasing it for PS5 (your fckn news correspondent for video games did not have information on other platforms at this time) on the 27th of august this year. https://youtube.com/watch?v=70gPRab24xY
scott adams, massive racist and creator of a newspaper comic strip that was mostly notable because a lot of newspaper readers worked in an office and hated it, is dead. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/dilbert-creator-dead-scott-adams-b2899717.html
hello i bring some good news: kim davis, a fuckwit from kentucky who was jailed in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage certificates to non-straight couples and who recently requested that the supreme court of the united states revisit their previous ruling on obergefell v. hodges, has been told to go fuck herself yet again. surprisingly the decision from the supreme court justices did not note any dissenting opinions…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @itisthenews. 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.
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.
“the fckn news” (@itisthenews), 167 subscribers as measured 10 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/itisthenews.
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.