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The Dark Troll

@the_dark_troll

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365subscribers

-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-1001579648690
TypeChannel
Username@the_dark_troll
CreatedBetween 1 August 2021 and 28 February 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded8 August 2026
Last confirmed live13 September 2026
Measurements held5
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 13 September 2026
On Telegramt.me/the_dark_troll

Topic

Politics & activism — 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 22 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 98% 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.

Growth

3643663657 August 2026 — 366 subscribers8 August 2026 — 366 subscribers28 August 2026 — 365 subscribers4 September 2026 — 364 subscribers13 September 2026 — 365 subscribers7 August 202613 September 2026
5 measurements spanning 37 days, net -1. 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 364–366 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
13 Sept 2026, 00:17365+1
4 Sept 2026, 15:40364-1
28 Aug 2026, 01:58365-1
8 Aug 2026, 06:31366no change
7 Aug 2026, 10:56366first reading

Engagement

20 posts held, back to 4 August 2026the 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 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.

What this channel posts

Video runtime
10s
Average length
10s

Measured directly from 1 video 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

51 reactions across 11 posts, in 5 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 37.3% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
👍1937.3%
😁1223.5%
💯1121.6%
🤷‍♂713.7%
👏23.92%

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 11 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 51 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 4 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

7 Aug 2026, 16:32 UTC75 views1 reactionsread 8 August 2026

The USA was supposed to gain 100k jobs in July, which is why the outdated embedment looks so confusing. That they lost 23k instead is massive egg.

👍1

7 Aug 2026, 16:27 UTC76 viewsread 8 August 2026

How many more people must Trump fire before they finally show USA job growth in official USA government reports? We may find out.

7 Aug 2026, 16:24 UTC81 viewsread 8 August 2026

The USA just lost another 23k jobs in July. And the April/May jobs were revised down by 103k. This continues the USA's streak of downward job revisions, and July will likely end up being around 50k additional lost jobs as well when the revisions come in. https://apnews.com/article/economy-jobs-trump-unemployment-rate-jobseekers-9c2d147c14bc428458be5a1e83e54957

6 Aug 2026, 20:52 UTC103 views2 reactionsread 8 August 2026

No amount of satellite images and expensive radar sets can replace the value of a direct visual assessment, especially one that is continuous.

👍2

6 Aug 2026, 20:47 UTC91 viewsread 8 August 2026
Forwarded from @AMK_MappingVideo

A Russian Geran-4 jet-drone conducts a battle damage assessment over Kyiv following yesterday’s massive ballistic missile attack.

6 Aug 2026, 16:34 UTC108 viewsread 8 August 2026

This is going to be very awkward for a certain Iranian FM.

6 Aug 2026, 16:31 UTC79 views2 reactionsread 8 August 2026
Forwarded from @middle_east_spectator

— 🇮🇷/🇴🇲 Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency has shared the initial text of the proposed ‘Strategic Control of Hormuz Act’ being prepared for Parliament NOTE: This is a separate Iranian parliamentary law, in addition to the agreement between Iran and Oman. 1. The passage of vessels belonging to the United States, Israel, and other hostile countries through the Strait of Hormuz will be prohibited. 2. Shipments rel

👏2

6 Aug 2026, 16:10 UTC78 viewsread 8 August 2026
Forwarded from @middle_east_spectatorPhoto

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇴🇲 NEW: Under the Strait of Hormuz deal currently being discussed, Iran is seeking transit fees of 5% to 7% of the cargo price of vessels passing through the Strait Omani officials are pushing for lower fees of around 3%, while Washington wants zero transit fees. A fully laden VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) carries around $150 million dollars worth of oil. A 5% fee would equal $7.5 million per ship, and w

6 Aug 2026, 04:43 UTC101 views4 reactionsread 8 August 2026

Yes, there is always a possibility the USA has a lot more missiles and capabilities than they are being given credit. However, if we use the last two weeks of USA strikes on Iran as a secondary indicator, it is difficult to conclude the USA has meaningful effectiveness left in the ME region. And this important secondary indicator suggests it could actually take weeks for the USA to launch another credible missile s

👍4

6 Aug 2026, 04:35 UTC100 views7 reactionsread 8 August 2026

It sounds a lot like Trump paid absolutely no attention to any USA military briefing and had no clue the USA was low on weapons until they told him they didn't have enough for his latest attack demands.

😁7

6 Aug 2026, 04:33 UTC97 views5 reactionsread 8 August 2026
Forwarded from @CyberspecNews

🇺🇸 — JD Vance: There are people within the Iranian regime who want to end the war, and there are extremists who want it to continue. Iranians are difficult to deal with, the regime is fractured, and our mission is to achieve the best possible results for the American people. We will use all available tools – military, economic, and diplomatic – to reach a suitable solution with Iran. US. Officials: Trump's dis

😁5

Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @the_dark_troll. 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

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.

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.

Russians With Attitude
@rwapodcast · 36,686
Telegram ranks this channel #25 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 1 September 2026
AMK Mapping
@AMK_Mapping · 58,716
Telegram ranks this channel #53 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 23 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 13 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“The Dark Troll” (@the_dark_troll), 365 subscribers as measured 13 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/the_dark_troll.

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.