I won’t be posting on this channel any longer effective immediately. It’s been a fun little project but I’m just spread too thin right now. Thanks for the support 🤙🏻
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Channel
@theoldworldwasbetter
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Cite this entry
140subscribers
+1 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001478907071 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @theoldworldwasbetter |
| Created | Between 1 April 2019 and 30 September 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 9 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 9 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/theoldworldwasbetter |
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 25 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 79% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Oct 2026, 16:56 | 140 | +1 |
| 30 Sept 2026, 03:22 | 139 | +1 |
| 12 Sept 2026, 18:39 | 138 | +1 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 15:42 | 137 | -2 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 22:45 | 139 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 14:10 | 139 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 25 February 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 May 2025. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Measured directly from 12 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
78 reactions across 17 posts, in 7 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 48.7% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🔥 | 38 | 48.7% | |
| ❤ | 25 | 32.1% | |
| 💔 | 10 | 12.8% | |
| 👍 | 2 | 2.56% | |
| 👏 | 1 | 1.28% | |
| 💩 | 1 | 1.28% | |
| 🤣 | 1 | 1.28% |
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 17 of the 20 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 78 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 25 February 2025 to 29 May 2025, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
I won’t be posting on this channel any longer effective immediately. It’s been a fun little project but I’m just spread too thin right now. Thanks for the support 🤙🏻
❤7💔5
🔤🔤🔤🔤🔤🔤 🔤🔤 🔤🔤🔤 8️⃣0️⃣🔤
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Video, posted without a caption
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Picture Week issue from March 13, 1956. Life must’ve been pretty good if petting was “America’s biggest worry”! 😅
The one and only Sonny Crockett 😎
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Miami Vice • S1E12 “Milk Run” 1984 • Crockett working hard.
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Touch Me (I Want Your Body) by Samantha Fox • 1986 • One of the most successful songs of 1986 peaking at number 3 in the UK and 4 in the US.
Battle of the Bulge • 1965 • Col. Martin Hessler (played by Robert Shaw) inspects his new tank commanders before going into action. The song they start to sing is called Panzerlied (Tank Song) and was a WWII-era German marching song dedicated to the German panzer forces.
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Brown Girl In the Ring by Boney M • 1979 • Reggae/Funk/Disco group Boney M performing one of their most popular songs at the Sopot ‘79 Music Festival in Poland.
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William Shatner, a bow and arrow and a Yamaha = chad energy 💪🏻
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The Tonight Show • 3-12-87 • Johnny interviews 4-year-old spelling bee champ Rohan Varavadekar. This is easily the most wholesome thing you’ll watch all day! Be sure to watch it all the way through.
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The Tonight Show • 4-30-76 • Next to Carnac, Tea Time Movie with Art Fern was the most popular of the Carson skits. The best parts of these skits aren’t when things go to plan, but rather when his jokes fall flat or he bombs. That’s when it’s extra hilarious!
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @theoldworldwasbetter. 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 9 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Old World Was Better” (@theoldworldwasbetter), 140 subscribers as measured 9 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/theoldworldwasbetter.
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.