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Laocoon of Troy ✓

@LaocoonofTroy · A stone house on River Styx · joined 21 Oct 2020

Condemned prophet. Autodidact. Oxford comma user. Tachypsychia practitioner. Devoted, but very poor Catholic.

61 384Followers
2 754Following
48 129Posts total
6.1KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

"Summer Night," by Norwegian painter, Harald Sohlberg, 1899. https://t.co/q4JkwsS1yW
529 views · 13 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in formation with vapor trails and puffs of flak explosion at high altitude in WW2. https://t.co/8br8vssfed
828 views · 18 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
@LaocoonofTroy A couple years earlier those cats were busting up Navy bars on shore leave after flying night fighter missions with James Dickey in the western Pacific. Maybe they’d been wandering tournament knights alongside Wm Marshal in his younger days… 18 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@LaocoonofTroy Behind them is the Texaco at 710 San Benito Street. Today that early-modern building is gone, as is the aesthetic of small-town America. Different brand now. I *think* this screenshot is where they posed. Hollister had a motorcycle hullabaloo in 1947: https://t
Street corner in Hollister, California, dated April 2025. This point of view ALSO appears in a photograph of motorcyclists from 1947.

In the background is a gasoline station at 710 San Benito Street. In 1947 it wore the Texaco brand.

Source: Google Maps
51 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
A man ice fishing on the northwest shore of the Hudson Bay. Nunavut, Canada, 1905. Photo by Douglas Moodie. https://t.co/eb84HlAP2O
1.7K views · 25 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
@LaocoonofTroy English bikes - BSAs and a Triumph. No Harleys here but still gets the girl 44 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Bikers in Hollister, California, 1947. https://t.co/p8Czu0Mey5
3K views · 80 likes · 5 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →
Good, 6-minute summary on how conservatism in America went down the wrong path after WWII. https://t.co/BxUr8iEj6g 0 views · 792 likes · 187 reposts · 51 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views529this account927median for 10K–100K
Reach, %0.86%this account3.63%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.96%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post5299270.57×
Reach (views ÷ followers)0.86%3.63%0.24×
Engagement rate1.96%1.52%1.29×

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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

3K21 Sep
44
1.7K
51
1822 Sep
828
529

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.98%21 Sep
0.00%
1.57%
1.96%
0.00%22 Sep
2.78%
2.84%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes86.7%137 in total
Reposts7.6%12 in total
Replies2.5%4 in total
Quotes0.6%1 in total
Bookmarks2.5%4 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.

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