Ascend: The Great Books Podcast ✓

@TheGreatB00ks · Oklahoma · joined 21 Dec 2023

A weekly podcast helping people read the Great Books. Hosted by @HarrisonGarlic1. Podcast, YouTube videos, written guides, & more! You can read the Great Books!

53 728Followers

187Following

11 414Posts total

64.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views3 074this account2 896median for 10K–100K

Reach, %5.72%this account9.51%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.13%this account1.56%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 074	2 896	1.06×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.72%	9.51%	0.60×
Engagement rate	1.13%	1.56%	0.73×

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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

50.2K1 Aug

5.5K2 Sep

1.6K

1.8K

4.4K

7733 Sep

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

0.49%1 Aug

0.31%2 Sep

0.61%

2.06%

1.65%

1.94%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.56%.

What the audience does

Likes59.9%306 in total

Reposts9.6%49 in total

Replies5.3%27 in total

Quotes3.3%17 in total

Bookmarks21.9%112 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

NEXT WEEK!☠️📚 We are discussing "Red Shadows," one of the savage tales of Solomon Kane, the puritan hero, by Robert E. Howard. Kane hunts a killer around the world and into the darkest, most primal jungles of Africa. Join @HarrisonGarlic1 and @AlbertoMiguelF5 next week! https 773 views · 12 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Plato's Republic is amazing. We've gathered 20+ scholars to provide 30+ episodes to walk you through this text in a slow, attentive manner. It is going to be a beautiful journey. Join us! We start in a month!📅 4.4K views · 65 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 Friends: ✅Are you concerned about the rising number of people who live like cattle? ✅Are you concerned that the worthless "drones" are multiplying? ✅Are you concerned about the increasing number of "democratic men" who are soft on crime? We have a book for you! https://t.co/e 1.8K views · 31 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 The spirituality of violence. We are discussing Flannery O'Connor this week! https://t.co/Uox4HaOaCW 1.6K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 What is the most disgusting and least plausible book ever written in political theory? Oh there are many, many candidates: many totalitarian monsters, many premonitions of genocide, many self-aggrandizing fallacy mongers. But the worst of these is Plato's Republic. https://t.co/L 5.5K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 6 replies 02 Sep 2026 WE ARE READING THE REPUBLIC TOGETHER!🔥 Join 20+ scholars over 30+ episodes in a slow, attentive read of one of the most influential texts in Western civilization, Plato's Republic. Sign up below! SCHEDULE: 📅 🌞Republic Bk 1: Intro, Prologue, & Cephalus (327a-331d) with http 50.2K views · 179 likes · 37 reposts · 17 replies 01 Aug 2026