"The brain shapes itself based on what it's told most often. Every time you tell yourself 'I'm weak,' 'I've failed,' you're not just talking—you're teaching your brain to believe it." You know, I read this and I just had to stop and think. Because, damn. How many times a day do I catch myself doing exactly that? Like, I'll mess up something small—burn toast, forget a name, send an email with a typo—and my brain jus…

Channel
FUN WITH ENGLISH
@FunBaEnglish
On this record: Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
1,731subscribers
+57 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001409845672 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @FunBaEnglish |
| Created | Between 1 April 2019 and 31 October 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 5 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 12 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 5 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/FunBaEnglish |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Sept 2026, 14:21 | 1,731 | +6 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 09:44 | 1,725 | +3 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 04:12 | 1,722 | +1 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 12:33 | 1,721 | +4 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 19:17 | 1,717 | +11 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 03:33 | 1,706 | +7 |
| 17 Aug 2026, 12:23 | 1,699 | +5 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 23:38 | 1,694 | +15 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 07:15 | 1,679 | +3 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 11:24 | 1,676 | +2 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 17:45 | 1,674 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 17:39 | 1,674 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 1 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 2 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 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
What this channel posts
- Video runtime
- 3m 13s
- Average length
- 48s
Measured directly from 4 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
6 reactions across 4 posts, in 3 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 33.3% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 2 | 33.3% | |
| 👍 | 2 | 33.3% | |
| 🔥 | 2 | 33.3% |
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 4 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 6 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 1 August 2026 to 7 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
Yeah, I read it. And ouch. Because I've definitely been that parent, standing there counting summers on my fingers, feeling like I'm failing some invisible test. The thing is, she's spot on. That whole "18 summers" thing? It's just anxiety dressed up as love. You're not cherishing anything—you're panic-planning it to death. Making binders and journals and "curating magical moments" like you're producing a Netflix sp…
Should I try the ‘18 summers’ parenting trend? Only if I want to ruin the school holidays | Emma Brockes via www.theguardian.com
English #conversation practice
The Weight Men Carry Alone Here's the thing we don't talk about enough. From childhood, boys get a clear message: being strong means not feeling, not crying, not asking for help. We call it building character. What we're really doing is teaching them to bury everything. So they grow up and they do exactly that. Depression, anxiety, burnout—it's all there. It just stays hidden. Not because it doesn't exist, but bec…
A man locked his head in an iron cage so he couldn't smoke anymore! Right. So this guy wakes up one day, thinks, “You know what’s smarter than willpower? Metal.” And just… clamps his own noggin in a cage. Like a medieval knight who really hates tobacco. I mean, I get it—quitting’s hard. I’ve tried. I once threw my pack in the river, then fished it out with a stick five minutes later. But this? This is commitment. O…
❤1
Video, posted without a caption
🔥2
I use these six idioms everyday! Start using these six common idioms to sound like a native speaker.
👍2
"If I knew I had to explain my joke to you, I wouldn't have joked with you at all." Ugh, you know that feeling? You crack a joke, you think it's funny, you're already grinning inside—and then the other person just stares at you like you spoke ancient Greek. And you're like, "Okay, so… it's funny because…" And the second you start explaining, the joke dies. It's not even a joke anymore, it's like a math problem. So t…
"The Great American Retirement Lie" You know, I was sitting on my porch the other day, just watching the world go by, and that phrase popped into my head. "70 is the new 50." And I just started laughing. Not a happy laugh, you know? A bitter one. Because who came up with that nonsense? Some Wall Street guy in a fancy suit who’s never had to lift anything heavier than a pen? Because let me tell you, I’m pushing 63. …
"Retirement — The Forgotten Dream, Caught in Capitalism's Grip" From The Hill newspaper: The American Dream once had a dignified finish line: work hard, and at 65, taste freedom. Today, that promise is so broken that for 42% of Americans over 60, retirement is nothing but a fantasy. They say they'll work until they drop dead. A record 11.6 million elderly Americans are still employed. That's not a sign of vitality…
Why We Check Our Phones 47 Times Before Breakfast Alright, let's just talk about this phone thing. Just us and this stupid little rectangle we can't put down. Let's talk about that little monster. The phone. You know what I did this morning? Woke up, didn't even pee, grabbed my phone. Scrolled. Checked messages. Scrolled more. Emails. Weather. News. Back to messages. All within like, four minutes. Why? Was I expect…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @FunBaEnglish. 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
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Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
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.
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.
@bbcLEn · 28,810
Telegram ranks this channel #54 of 76 here — alongside 75 others — read 9 September 2026
@EnglishHarmony · 51,568
Telegram ranks this channel #70 of 85 here — alongside 84 others — read 25 August 2026
This channel appears in 2 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 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“FUN WITH ENGLISH” (@FunBaEnglish), 1,731 subscribers as measured 5 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/FunBaEnglish.
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.