Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 ✓

@Chris_arnade · In a McDonald's somewhere · joined 09 Jan 2012

Walking the world, one city at a time. I like turtles, cats, & buses. Subscribe to my Substack: https://t.co/j6mE4TVNqT

97 118Followers

2 879Following

35 742Posts total

1MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views24 480this account3 383median for 10K–100K

Reach, %25.21%this account10.96%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.97%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	24 480	3 383	7.24×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	25.21%	10.96%	2.30×
Engagement rate	0.97%	1.40%	0.69×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

174.9K4 Oct

748.2K27 Aug

29K

24.5K31 Aug

13.6K3 Sep

14K

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.31%4 Oct

0.97%27 Aug

0.59%

0.74%31 Aug

2.00%3 Sep

1.88%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes87.3%7 847 in total

Reposts5.3%476 in total

Replies2.3%204 in total

Quotes1.5%132 in total

Bookmarks3.7%334 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Interesting book by an American anthropologist who did field work in Romania in 70s/80s who in 2000s found the secret police file they kept on her. Her take away? We (left leaning, centrist, academics) were so so so naive and all the crazy things the state department told us - 14K views · 238 likes · 21 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 So much of built America is this, which is not meant to be walked or seen at this level, but from a car It is not aggressively ugly, but it’s also not appealing, with function 99% of the point, so the atheistic is regulatory bland, pre fab cookie cutter buildings with https://t 13.6K views · 228 likes · 8 reposts · 32 replies 03 Sep 2026 I rode a bus from Darwin to Alice Springs. Twenty-two hours through the outback of Northern Australia. I loved almost every minute of it, and would do it again. PS: Well, this was kind of doing it again since last year I rode one for twenty-seven to Alice Springs across Eastern 24.5K views · 163 likes · 5 reposts · 11 replies 31 Aug 2026 Spend a few days in the Ger slums that ring Ulaanbaatar (google it you don’t know about them) and you’ll understand these, AI slop or not. Not suggesting Mongolians aren’t choosing modernity over trad life, and that it’s not the “correct” choice, but that they do it, when the 29K views · 162 likes · 3 reposts · 6 replies 27 Aug 2026 Mongolians apparently have their own version of Bowling Alone / the evils of modernity discourse, which they post as AI slop on Instagram. My favorite is lamenting the cars that didn't have seatbelts. https://t.co/zp0WCY522X 748.2K views · 6.6K likes · 415 reposts · 123 replies 27 Aug 2026 I've been walking the world now for 4 years, and so to celebrate that milestone, I interview myself, because who knows me better than me? https://t.co/YT870TCerJ https://t.co/RDdi25bBK5 174.9K views · 484 likes · 24 reposts · 29 replies 04 Oct 2025