Thriving The Future ✓

@ThrivingTheFut

I grow chestnuts in Kansas and write about building a real life instead of borrowing one. Skills Over Stuff. Plant trees. Grow food. Build community.

1 813Followers

221Following

8 319Posts total

2.9MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views532 064this account3 808median for under 10K

Reach, %29347.13%this account249.49%median for under 10K

Engagement, %0.55%this account1.30%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	532 064	3 808	140×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	293.5× audience	2.5× audience	118×
Engagement rate	0.55%	1.30%	0.42×

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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

1.8M31 Aug

892.9K

171.2K

41K

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.44%31 Aug

0.65%

0.20%

0.73%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.30%.

What the audience does

Likes80.5%12 972 in total

Reposts4.0%639 in total

Replies3.2%508 in total

Quotes1.4%220 in total

Bookmarks11.0%1 776 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

@ThrivingTheFut yeah i just read that today that the number of 18 year olds in the us peaks this year 41K views · 293 likes · 4 reposts · 3 replies 31 Aug 2026 @RizomaSchool Kansas University said that 2025 was the high school graduation “cliff” where it significantly drops off for the future enrollment. 171.2K views · 340 likes · 6 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 weird things happening in the college scene right now basically every top university now has a policy of zero tuition if your family makes less than ~$200k-150k annually seems like soon it's going to be state schools and ivies+ and nothing else 892.9K views · 5.6K likes · 126 reposts · 75 replies 31 Aug 2026 People are under-pricing the possibility of a black-swan-esque event where significant chunks of higher ed collapse suddenly. At some point parents will decide they will not pay $100-400k combined for their kids to cheat their way through college. I expect a bang, not a whimper. 1.8M views · 6.8K likes · 503 reposts · 429 replies 31 Aug 2026