Hidden Machine

@MachineHidden

we make long videos about games we love • hiddenmachinegaming@gmail.com • account run by Matt from Hidden Machine

3 471Followers

1 297Following

21 849Posts total

379.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views19 920this account3 020median for under 10K

Reach, %573.90%this account191.81%median for under 10K

Engagement, %0.67%this account1.52%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	19 920	3 020	6.60×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.7× audience	191.81%	2.99×
Engagement rate	0.67%	1.52%	0.44×

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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

296.3K2 Sep

27.8K

25.5K

14.4K

9.9K

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

0.92%2 Sep

1.24%

0.41%

1.72%

0.20%

0.15%

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

What the audience does

Likes75.6%2 938 in total

Reposts3.6%140 in total

Replies5.6%218 in total

Quotes4.0%155 in total

Bookmarks11.2%434 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

I broke my rule of saying "their" when I should have said "our" because I know I'm part of this 6K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Locking this because I think everything useful has been said and I don't think posts need to stimulate this many replies. I'm not a hater; I am a person my age! Still, I know my mind (and the minds of many of my peers) were molded by targeted marketing and it does weird me out 9.9K views · 18 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 @MachineHidden That's because it's ok to be happy. To be yourself. To be kind to other people. Sure there are some judgemental wankers, but mostly if you see someone decked out in TMNT stuff you just let them be. It's OK to like things and be happy if you get to enjoy them. 14.4K views · 235 likes · 3 reposts · 9 replies 02 Sep 2026 Thinking about how my wife called a recent outfit of mine “the PlayStation tuxedo” and yeah it’s all true 25.5K views · 101 likes · 0 reposts · 4 replies 02 Sep 2026 I truly believe that the unregulated children’s television programming (30 minute toy commercials) of the mid to late 80s and early 90s did irreparable psychic damage on many people. Marketers created lifelong brand loyalty bonds that defy logic and good taste. 27.8K views · 315 likes · 12 reposts · 13 replies 02 Sep 2026 People my age are trapped in perpetual adolescence through their consumer identities. You’ll see a ~40 year old man in an all over print Ninja Turtles hoodie. A unique phenomenon? You never saw guys in the 80s or 90s decked out in Howdy Doody gear. 296.3K views · 2.3K likes · 125 reposts · 192 replies 02 Sep 2026