The dark side of going viral Pendapat We cannot put the digital genie back in the bottle, but we can build a better ecosystem. https://malaysiagazette.com/2026/08/13/the-dark-side-of-going-viral/

Channel
Malaysiagazette
@malaysiagazette
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
8,457subscribers
+3 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001486025896 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @malaysiagazette |
| Created | Between 1 April 2019 and 30 September 2021— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 13 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 13 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/malaysiagazette |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Aug 2026, 07:04 | 8,457 | -8 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 15:01 | 8,465 | +9 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 18:33 | 8,456 | +2 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 00:45 | 8,454 | first reading |
Engagement
204 posts held, back to 6 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 12 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 1.18%
- avg views ÷ 8,457 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 99.6
- 204 posts measured
- Reaction rate
- 1.46%
- reactions ÷ views · ER floor
- Posts in window
- 204
- of 204 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. It is computed over the 44 of 204 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 12 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 204 (6 August 2026 – 12 August 2026) |
| Views total | 20,312 |
| Reactions total | 80 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 12 Aug 2026, 16:19 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.
Reaction mix
80 reactions across 44 posts, in 13 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 21.3% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 👍 | 17 | 21.3% | |
| 💩 | 17 | 21.3% | |
| 😁 | 17 | 21.3% | |
| 🖕 | 9 | 11.3% | |
| 👎 | 5 | 6.25% | |
| ⚡ | 3 | 3.75% | |
| 🤣 | 3 | 3.75% | |
| ❤ | 2 | 2.50% | |
| 🔥 | 2 | 2.50% | |
| 🥴 | 2 | 2.50% | |
| 👏 | 1 | 1.25% | |
| 🤮 | 1 | 1.25% | |
| 🤯 | 1 | 1.25% |
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 44 of the 204 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 80reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 204 most recent posts we hold, published 6 August 2026 to 12 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
Merdeka 100: What kind of Malaysia will we pass on? Rencana Imagine Malaysia on 31 August 2057. Another generation will raise the Jalur Gemilang, sing the same songs and reflect on the journey that began a century earlier. What will they say about us? https://malaysiagazette.com/2026/08/13/merdeka-100-what-kind-of-malaysia-will-we-pass-on/
Our stray animal policy keeps paying to chase, not prevent Rencana PBTs do not need a better catch pole. They need a reason for the population to stop growing in the first place, which means prevention finally needs a budget to run on, rather than another chase to run after. https://malaysiagazette.com/2026/08/13/our-stray-animal-policy-keeps-paying-to-chase-not-prevent/
Remaja lemas ketika mandi sungai Zulhisham Isahak “Pasukan Penyelamat di Air (PPDA) yang membuat selaman dan berjaya menemui mangsa berada di dasar sungai pada kedalaman 4 meter dengan jarak kira-kira 2 meter dari tebing sungai,” katanya dalam kenyataan. https://malaysiagazette.com/2026/08/12/remaja-lemas-ketika-mandi-sungai/
Jerebu: 108 sekolah di Serian ditutup, IPU melebihi 200 Bernama “Menurut Pelan Tindakan Jerebu Kebangsaan, di bawah bidang kuasa Pengarah Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri Sarawak, sekolah, tadika dan taska akan ditutup serta-merta sebaik IPU mencecah 200,” menurut JPBN Sarawak dalam kenyataan hari ini. https://malaysiagazette.com/2026/08/12/jerebu-108-sekolah-di-serian-ditutup-ipu-melebihi-200/
Anwar pulang ke rumah selepas pembedahan Bernama Menerusi hantaran di Facebook, Anwar memuat naik gambar beliau sedang membaca buku dengan kapsyen “Alhamdulillah, back home”, yang menggambarkan beliau telah kembali di rumah. https://malaysiagazette.com/2026/08/12/anwar-pulang-ke-rumah-selepas-pembedahan/
Indonesia naikkan yuran visa semasa ketibaan hingga Rp1 juta Bernama Ketua Pengarah Imigresen Hendarsam Marantoko berkata, pelarasan itu mengambil kira turun naik kadar pertukaran rupiah, dengan kadar fi sedia ada disifatkan terlalu rendah dari segi hasil yang diterima kerajaan. https://malaysiagazette.com/2026/08/12/indonesia-naikkan-yuran-visa-semasa-ketibaan-hingga-rp1-juta/
Pemandu treler tertidur, treler bawa ayam sejuk beku terbabas di Jalan Istana Wartawan MalaysiaGazette Ketika melalui selekoh di lorong kedua, pemandu dipercayai tertidur sebelum hilang kawalan lalu terbabas ke bahu kiri jalan. https://malaysiagazette.com/2026/08/12/pemandu-treler-tertidur-treler-bawa-ayam-sejuk-beku-terbabas-di-jalan-istana/
Tiga suspek dicekup, lima motosikal curi ditemui Wartawan MalaysiaGazette Siasatan lanjut turut membawa kepada rampasan lima motosikal yang dilaporkan hilang di sekitar Hulu Langat, Batu 9 Cheras dan Wangsa Maju. https://malaysiagazette.com/2026/08/12/tiga-suspek-dicekup-lima-motosikal-curi-ditemui/
Pasangan ditangkap khalwat beri alasan ‘tak sengaja’ hamil selepas setahun bersekedudukan Zulhisham Isahak Selepas ditangkap, ibu bapa wanita dipanggil sebagai penjamin dan terjadilah suatu drama yang amat-amat dahsyat. https://malaysiagazette.com/2026/08/12/pasangan-ditangkap-khalwat-beri-alasan-tak-sengaja-hamil-selepas-setahun-bersekedudukan/
Polis buru lelaki simbah cat, tampal notis hutang di premis Wartawan MalaysiaGazette Pengadu juga mendakwa menerima mesej menerusi aplikasi WhatsApp daripada satu nombor telefon yang mengandungi rakaman video kejadian menyimbah cat serta gambar notis yang ditampal di premis berkenaan. https://malaysiagazette.com/2026/08/12/polis-buru-lelaki-simbah-cat-tampal-notis-hutang-di-premis/
Polis rampas van jenazah dipercayai dicuri di Subang Jaya Wartawan MalaysiaGazette Ketua Polis Daerah Klang Utara, Asisten Komisioner Ramsay Embol berkata, serbuan dilakukan kira-kira pukul 7.20 malam turut menahan seorang lelaki warga Pakistan berusia 20-an yang bekerja di bengkel tersebut bagi membantu siasatan https://malaysiagazette.com/2026/08/12/polis-rampas-van-jenazah-dipercayai-dicuri-di-subang-jaya/
Showing the 12 most recent of 204 posts we hold for @malaysiagazette. 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.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
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This channel appears in 7 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
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 13 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Malaysiagazette” (@malaysiagazette), 8,457 subscribers as measured 13 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/malaysiagazette.
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.