🍎 Last night, Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store because a single user had planted illegal pornographic content in a public group chat. ⬅️ Telegram was restored within hours. But I want to explain what happened — to warn other app developers and help protect online communities from similar attacks. 🧹Because Telegram quickly removes illegal content from public groups using user reports, AI filters, co…

Channel
SFThoughtCriminal
@sfthoughtcriminal
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
26subscribers
+1 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001833771049 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @sfthoughtcriminal |
| Created | Between 1 October 2022 and 30 September 2023— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 11 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 14 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 3 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 14 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/sfthoughtcriminal |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Aug 2026, 19:44 | 26 | +1 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 10:03 | 25 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 23:27 | 25 | first reading |
Engagement
19 posts held, back to 25 July 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 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
- ERR · 30 days
- 15.4%
- avg views ÷ 26 subscribers
- Avg views / post
- 4.0
- 1 post measured
- Reaction rate
- —
- this channel exposes no reaction counts
- Posts in window
- 1
- of 19 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.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 4 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 19 (25 July 2025 – 4 August 2026) |
| Views total | 4 |
| Reactions total | — |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 11 Aug 2026, 10:03 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.
Recent posts
⛔️ The UK government wants to ban social media for children under 16. But banning social media for kids only puts them in greater danger. They will be pushed to use VPNs — and unlock far worse illegal content. We’ve seen this before. When the Russian government banned Telegram, 95% of Russian teenagers kept using it. They just moved to VPNs. Same in Iran. Parents already have the tools to restrict their kids’ di…
https://x.com/harrisonhsmith/status/2046982094417494148 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXdGzQxDvdO @HarrisonHSmith @TheAmericanJournal @INFOWARSlive @BANNEDdotVideo
Society is fracturing. Everybody’s got something in their ears now — sealed off, tuned out — disconnected from the people right next to us. We didn’t grow up like this. Despite the undeniable social decay, and other not-so-obvious, unintended, long-term biological side effects nobody wants to question, most of society is thoughtlessly going along with volunteering to be living test subjects in a massive social and…
https://youtube.com/@gavin_mcinnes?si=O1eGL158qA9vuIH0
I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating. Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers. What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control. Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU). Ger…
Did you know that you can financially support me on a monthly basis via membership tiers on my Patreon? https://www.patreon.com/sfthoughtcriminal
JUST IN - YouTube admits to having censored people during the COVID pandemic, and for political reasons. Offers terminated creators the opportunity to rejoin the platform. https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-09-23-letter-to-hjc.pdf @disclosetv
https://x.com/gavin_mcinnes?s=21
Looks like Gavin (pbuh) is back on X. Good for him! https://x.com/Gavin_McInnes?t=6BBzPa31ySETaYuCLf_3IQ&s=09
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1969071910571933901
The J6 whitewash continues, while everyone is distracted.
Showing the 12 most recent of 19 posts we hold for @sfthoughtcriminal. 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
Republishes
Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.
@helpstophate · 9852 postsCensored.tv
@censoredtvoffical · 8591 postDaniel Goodwyn
@Daniel_Goodwyn · 1451 postDisclose.tv
@disclosetv · 327,9971 postMan in America 🇺🇸
@maninamerica · 30,7221 postMurderTheMedia's Sporadic Postings
@MurderTheMedia · 14,7301 postProud Boys (Unrestricted)
@ProudBoysUSAunrestricted · 1,0731 postAustralia’s Sons
@RealGavinMcInnes · 8,5481 post
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
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.
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 14 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“SFThoughtCriminal” (@sfthoughtcriminal), 26 subscribers as measured 14 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/sfthoughtcriminal.
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.