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TheLitBud | Literature & Culture

@thelitbud

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6,590subscribers

+535 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-1001459272237
TypeChannel
Username@thelitbud
CreatedBetween 1 April 2019 and 31 October 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded7 August 2026
Last confirmed live31 October 2026
Measurements held22
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 31 October 2026
On Telegramt.me/thelitbud

Topic

Literature — 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 12 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% 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 the other topics.

Growth

6,0556,5906,322.57 August 2026 — 6,055 subscribers8 August 2026 — 6,057 subscribers11 August 2026 — 6,185 subscribers15 August 2026 — 6,217 subscribers17 August 2026 — 6,230 subscribers20 August 2026 — 6,252 subscribers24 August 2026 — 6,266 subscribers27 August 2026 — 6,275 subscribers30 August 2026 — 6,287 subscribers2 September 2026 — 6,295 subscribers5 September 2026 — 6,300 subscribers11 September 2026 — 6,323 subscribers14 September 2026 — 6,339 subscribers19 September 2026 — 6,360 subscribers29 September 2026 — 6,494 subscribers6 October 2026 — 6,516 subscribers13 October 2026 — 6,547 subscribers16 October 2026 — 6,553 subscribers19 October 2026 — 6,564 subscribers22 October 2026 — 6,577 subscribers25 October 2026 — 6,581 subscribers31 October 2026 — 6,590 subscribers7 August 202631 October 2026
22 measurements spanning 84 days, net +535. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 5,975–6,670 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 22
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
31 Oct 2026, 01:586,590+9
25 Oct 2026, 20:076,581+4
22 Oct 2026, 19:376,577+13
19 Oct 2026, 10:316,564+11
16 Oct 2026, 00:106,553+6
13 Oct 2026, 00:596,547+31
6 Oct 2026, 20:206,516+22
29 Sept 2026, 18:566,494+134
19 Sept 2026, 04:026,360+21
14 Sept 2026, 19:376,339+16
11 Sept 2026, 01:416,323+23
5 Sept 2026, 22:596,300+5
2 Sept 2026, 06:446,295+8
30 Aug 2026, 13:026,287+12
27 Aug 2026, 17:446,275+9
24 Aug 2026, 14:146,266+14
20 Aug 2026, 22:556,252+22
17 Aug 2026, 21:066,230+13
15 Aug 2026, 02:576,217+32
11 Aug 2026, 12:276,185first reading

Engagement

37 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 7 pages 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 37 posts for this entry, the most recent from 12 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.

Reaction mix

24 reactions across 14 posts, in 3 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 91.7% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
❤2291.7%
😢14.17%
🥰14.17%

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 14 of the 37 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 24 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 37 most recent posts we hold, published 3 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

12 Aug 2026, 01:30 UTC78 viewsread 12 August 2026

🌅 Good Morning, Literary Minds! ✒️ "Nowadays so many conceited people go about Society pretending to be good, that I think it shows rather a sweet and modest disposition to pretend to be bad. If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism." Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan #OscarWilde #Victorian #Satire #Society #Wi…

Signed TheLitBud Scheduler

11 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTC235 viewsread 12 August 2026
Poll

📚 TheLitBud Quiz How is a 'travesty' distinguished from a 'parody' within the generic category of burlesque?

  1. A travesty is a high burlesque of a general literary genre.10%
  2. A parody must always be directed against a specific historical personage.51%
  3. A parody applies a high style to a trivial or lowly subject matter.20%
  4. A travesty treats a lofty subject in a grotesquely undignified style.19%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

Signed TheLitBud Scheduler

11 Aug 2026, 08:30 UTC256 viewsread 12 August 2026

📝 Literary Term of the Day Structuralism 📖 Definition: A critical approach that studies literature as a system of signs governed by underlying structures, patterns, and relations. 💡 Example: A structuralist reading of folktales often draws on Vladimir Propp’s analysis of recurring narrative functions. #LiteraryTerms #LiteraryCriticism 📚 @thelitbud

Signed TheLitBud Scheduler

11 Aug 2026, 03:30 UTC309 viewsread 12 August 2026

📜 On This Day in Literature — August 11 • 1921: Alex Haley, American writer and author of Roots, was born. 📚 @thelitbud

Signed TheLitBud Scheduler

11 Aug 2026, 01:30 UTC292 viewsread 12 August 2026

🌅 Good Morning, Literary Minds! ✒️ "And other strains of woe, which now seem woe, compared with loss of thee will not seem so." William Shakespeare, Sonnet XC #Shakespeare #Sonnet #Love #Loss #Poetry 📚 @thelitbud

Signed TheLitBud Scheduler

10 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTC383 viewsread 12 August 2026
Poll

📚 TheLitBud Quiz In the field of book history, Robert Darnton's 'communications circuit' is significant because it suggests:

  1. The reader influences the author both before and after the act of composition.32%
  2. The author is the sole and final authority on the meaning of a text.20%
  3. Books should be studied in total isolation from their economic and social environments.42%
  4. The material features of a book are neutral and do not affect its meaning.5%

Shares as published, totalling 99%. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

Signed TheLitBud Scheduler

10 Aug 2026, 08:30 UTC378 views4 reactionsread 12 August 2026

📝 Literary Term of the Day Tragedy of Manners 📖 Definition: A drama in which social codes, conventions, and refined behavior are central, but the outcome is grave rather than comic. 💡 Example: Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House can be discussed in relation to tragedy of manners because social decorum shapes its crisis. #LiteraryTerms #Drama 📚 @thelitbud

❤4

Signed TheLitBud Scheduler

10 Aug 2026, 03:30 UTC365 viewsread 12 August 2026

📜 On This Day in Literature — August 10 • 1962: Suzanne Collins, American novelist and author of The Hunger Games, was born. 📚 @thelitbud

Signed TheLitBud Scheduler

10 Aug 2026, 01:30 UTC378 viewsread 12 August 2026

🌅 Good Morning, Literary Minds! ✒️ "You can only be independent of God while you've got youth and prosperity; independence won't take you safely to the end." Aldous Huxley, Brave New World #Huxley #BraveNewWorld #Dystopia #Faith #Philosophy 📚 @thelitbud

Signed TheLitBud Scheduler

9 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTC459 viewsread 12 August 2026
Poll

📚 TheLitBud Quiz What was the central goal of the 'Black Aesthetic' advocated by writers in the Black Arts Movement?

  1. To return to the pastoral traditions of the 18th-century English poets.8%
  2. To adopt the impersonal and objective techniques of the New Critics.24%
  3. To speak directly to the needs and aspirations of Black America through the vernacular.55%
  4. To integrate African-American literature into the traditional Western canon.13%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

Signed TheLitBud Scheduler

9 Aug 2026, 08:30 UTC423 views1 reactionsread 12 August 2026

📝 Literary Term of the Day Blank Verse 📖 Definition: Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter — each line has ten syllables with alternating unstressed and stressed beats. 💡 Example: Most of Shakespeare's plays are written in blank verse: "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?" #LiteraryTerms #Poetry 📚 @thelitbud

❤1

Signed TheLitBud Scheduler

9 Aug 2026, 03:30 UTC436 viewsread 12 August 2026

📜 On This Day in Literature — August 09 • 1854: Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; or, Life in the Woods was first published. 📚 @thelitbud

Signed TheLitBud Scheduler

Showing the 12 most recent of 37 posts we hold for @thelitbud. 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.

Polls

The 6 most recent of 9 polls we hold for this entry, as Telegram rendered them when we read the post. A poll’s figures keep moving after that, so each one is dated.

11 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTCAnonymous Quiz59 voters

📚 TheLitBud Quiz How is a 'travesty' distinguished from a 'parody' within the generic category of burlesque?

  1. A travesty is a high burlesque of a general literary genre.10%
  2. A parody must always be directed against a specific historical personage.51%
  3. A parody applies a high style to a trivial or lowly subject matter.20%
  4. A travesty treats a lofty subject in a grotesquely undignified style.19%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

10 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTCAnonymous Quiz59 voters

📚 TheLitBud Quiz In the field of book history, Robert Darnton's 'communications circuit' is significant because it suggests:

  1. The reader influences the author both before and after the act of composition.32%
  2. The author is the sole and final authority on the meaning of a text.20%
  3. Books should be studied in total isolation from their economic and social environments.42%
  4. The material features of a book are neutral and do not affect its meaning.5%

Shares as published, totalling 99%. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

9 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTCAnonymous Quiz96 voters

📚 TheLitBud Quiz What was the central goal of the 'Black Aesthetic' advocated by writers in the Black Arts Movement?

  1. To return to the pastoral traditions of the 18th-century English poets.8%
  2. To adopt the impersonal and objective techniques of the New Critics.24%
  3. To speak directly to the needs and aspirations of Black America through the vernacular.55%
  4. To integrate African-American literature into the traditional Western canon.13%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

8 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTCAnonymous Quiz88 voters

📚 TheLitBud Quiz W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley coined the term 'affective fallacy' to describe a specific error in critical judgment. What is that error?

  1. Judging a work based on the author's stated or inferred purpose.18%
  2. Failing to account for the historical and social context of a work's production.39%
  3. Evaluating a poem based on its emotional effects upon the reader.38%
  4. Assuming that a text's meaning is deferred through an endless play of signs.6%

Shares as published, totalling 101%. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

7 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTCAnonymous Quiz95 voters

📚 TheLitBud Quiz In 'The Birth of Tragedy', Friedrich Nietzsche speculated that the original Greek chorus consisted of:

  1. A single person who spoke the prologue and epilogue of the play.40%
  2. Wealthy citizens who provided political commentary on the state.34%
  3. Female attendants who served the heroine in domestic scenes.14%
  4. Goat-like satyrs who attended the god Dionysus.13%

Shares as published, totalling 101%. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

6 Aug 2026, 09:30 UTCAnonymous Quiz89 voters

📚 TheLitBud Quiz What is meant by the 'aporia' in a deconstructive reading of a text?

  1. The historical site where cultural constructs converge into a text.15%
  2. An insuperable deadlock or double bind of incompatible meanings.40%
  3. The intentional use of multiple meanings to enhance poetic richness.36%
  4. A self-certifying ground that allows for a correct reading of a work.9%

Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.

Percentages only — there are no per-option vote counts here, because Telegram publishes none. The public post preview gives each option’s share and a single voter total, and nothing else. Multiplying one by the other would produce a per-option tally that looks measured and is not: the shares are rounded to whole numbers before we ever see them. We print what was published and leave the column that does not exist empty.

The shares need not add up to 100. Rounding alone puts many polls at 99 or 101. A poll that allows more than one answer per voter runs well past 100 by design, and several here do. The bars are drawn against a fixed 100% track at each option’s own percentage rather than normalised to the total, so a poll that exceeds it shows that it does instead of being quietly rescaled.

Read from the 37 most recent posts we hold, published 3 August 2026 to 12 August 2026. Telegram labels each poll by kind — an anonymous poll, a quiz, a closed set of final results — and that label is reproduced rather than paraphrased.

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 31 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“TheLitBud | Literature & Culture” (@thelitbud), 6,590 subscribers as measured 31 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/thelitbud.

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.