Politics & activism — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q6_K_XL, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 21 August 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 99% 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
62 measurements spanning 91 days, net -3,626. 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 51,366–56,080 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 62
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
5 Nov 2026, 21:26
51,910
-46
4 Nov 2026, 20:58
51,956
-59
3 Nov 2026, 19:21
52,015
-12
2 Nov 2026, 19:54
52,027
-7
1 Nov 2026, 21:29
52,034
-26
1 Nov 2026, 00:35
52,060
-14
30 Oct 2026, 23:36
52,074
-36
29 Oct 2026, 23:14
52,110
-63
28 Oct 2026, 22:31
52,173
-48
27 Oct 2026, 21:09
52,221
-25
26 Oct 2026, 22:14
52,246
-55
25 Oct 2026, 19:47
52,301
-49
24 Oct 2026, 20:17
52,350
-20
23 Oct 2026, 17:30
52,370
-50
22 Oct 2026, 16:45
52,420
-40
21 Oct 2026, 10:19
52,460
-32
20 Oct 2026, 07:21
52,492
-44
19 Oct 2026, 07:40
52,536
-20
18 Oct 2026, 09:26
52,556
-35
17 Oct 2026, 12:04
52,591
first reading
Engagement
149 posts held, back to 16 July 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 184 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR · 30 days
4.26%
avg views ÷ 51,910 subscribers
Avg views / post
2,210
42 posts measured
Reaction rate
2.00%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
42
of 149 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.
What these figures were computed from
Window
Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 4 November 2026
Posts held
149 (16 July 2026 – 4 November 2026)
Views total
92,770
Reactions total
1,860
Forwards / comments
not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken
5 Nov 2026, 23:47 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.
What this channel posts
Photos
≈356
Videos
≈128
Links
≈2,770
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 5 November 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Video runtime
4h 11m
Average length
5m 28s
Measured directly from 46 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.
Reaction mix
7,150 reactions across 149 posts, in 36 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 27.7% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
👍
1,983
27.7%
💯
1,769
24.7%
❤
564
7.89%
🤬
394
5.51%
🤣
365
5.10%
👏
347
4.85%
🙏
257
3.59%
🤡
217
3.03%
🔥
197
2.76%
😁
190
2.66%
🤮
153
2.14%
💩
106
1.48%
💔
93
1.30%
🤯
91
1.27%
👎
66
0.923%
😢
61
0.853%
😱
46
0.643%
🥰
44
0.615%
🤔
34
0.476%
😡
33
0.462%
16 further kinds
140
1.96%
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 149 of the 149 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 7,150 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 149 most recent posts we hold, published 16 July 2026 to 4 November 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
Telegram’s own ‘edited’ marker: 0 of 42 posts held from the last 30 days (0%) carried it when this register last read them. The marker says a post was changed after publishing, not what it said before — this register holds the earlier wording only where an edit fell between two of its own reads (see the edit ledger and how it is measured).
It’s not enough to just point at Democratic extremism and tell Americans to vote for you. Republicans must provide a cohesive and meaningful defense of the things that matter: truth and virtue; private property and free markets; strength and prudence abroad. https://x.com/benshapiro/status/2118118439424606500/video/1
@BenShapiroGang
Here’s what last night wasn’t about: an embrace of Democrats’ radical policy dreams or a failure of candidate quality. It was a referendum on President Trump. Period. And it was a shellacking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91IFRhoKYRM
@BenShapiroGang
Join me and the other Daily Wire hosts LIVE at Election Wire as we break down the 2026 Midterm Elections.
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/2WXKJXkZOdNyBd
@BenShapiroGang
Remember: @ TuckerCarlson is a vile demoralization agent who wants the GOP to lose. This is his "special Election Day message" email this morning. https://x.com/benshapiro/status/2117646792590246284/photo/1
@BenShapiroGang
The polling data shows a blue tsunami coming. Maybe that data is correct. But there’s one major problem: Republicans haven’t been picking up the phone. https://x.com/benshapiro/status/2117397139701559786/video/1
@BenShapiroGang
The Democratic Party has now made clear its priorities: you must endorse and campaign with the Jew-hating, America-hating Senate Michigan candidate, or you are a traitor. Meet Haley Stevens, who just refused to bow the knee – and now will be summarily destroyed for it.
@BenShapiroGang
A young social media influencer harasses a Red Baron worker, and the interaction goes totally viral…What does all of that tell us about our politics? Plus, Barack Obama’s FBI reportedly found evidence that Ilhan Omar married her brother, and Bari Weiss goes to war with her own
@BenShapiroGang
“You Can See Everything” is bizarre, interesting…and ultimately a journey in narcissistic nihilism that acts as a giant prank on its audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inPCDU0eiQU&t=427s
@BenShapiroGang
First, full disclosure, as always: Kalshi is a sponsor on our show. So people will take any opinion with a grain of salt, which is fine. But at the heart of the Kalshi question is a simpler one: what’s the difference between a prediction market and a traditional betting platform, https://x.com/benshapiro/status/2115874785171509343/video/1
@BenShapiroGang
Candace Owens is running around saying that her personal dismissal from a Delaware lawsuit by the Macrons is exoneration. Which, um, isn’t true. But that’s the usual, isn’t it? https://x.com/benshapiro/status/2115537067400900815/video/1
@BenShapiroGang
Jordan Klepper from Comedy Central went to Texas to mock voters who believe in God by asking them about God’s penis size. He’s actually a great spokesperson for James Talarico, and Texas voters should remember it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADy8e6-QF9Q
@BenShapiroGang
❤27💩5🤣1😁1
Showing the 12 most recent of 149 posts we hold for @BenShapiroGang. 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.
Channels Telegram recommends alongside this one
Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.
Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 23 August 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.
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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Fighting The Commies @FightingTheCommies · 22,528 Telegram ranks this channel #45 of 84 here — alongside 83 others — read 18 September 2026
Mike Pompeo @MichaelRPompeo · 23,893 Telegram ranks this channel #45 of 76 here — alongside 75 others — read 15 September 2026
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This channel appears in 24 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 5 November 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Ben Shapiro Gang” (@BenShapiroGang), 51,910 subscribers as measured 5 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/BenShapiroGang.
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.