The Baffler

@thebafflermag · New York, NY · joined 07 Jul 2009

Political and cultural criticism, satire, and salvos. Since 1988. Online and in print.

63 447Followers

1 093Following

47 243Posts total

5.3KViews 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 views794this account2 968median for 10K–100K

Reach, %1.25%this account9.18%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.27%this account1.42%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	794	2 968	0.27×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	1.25%	9.18%	0.14×
Engagement rate	0.27%	1.42%	0.19×

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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

8691 Sep

1.8K

1.1K3 Sep

718

511

295

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

0.69%1 Sep

0.51%

0.00%3 Sep

0.00%

0.20%

0.34%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.42%.

What the audience does

Likes56.0%14 in total

Reposts8.0%2 in total

Replies4.0%1 in total

Bookmarks32.0%8 in total

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

Followers by day

3 Sep

Daily snapshots since 03 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.

Latest posts

Cash advance apps may promise to help you spend and save smarter. But Albert and Cleo are the spiritual successors to the strip mall payday lenders that put the squeeze on broke Americans trying to get by between paychecks. https://t.co/aA8ZM6WWs1 295 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 High education is facing numerous, interlocking crises. Cash-strapped universities are shuttering departments, cutting back on liberal arts, and bowing to the needs of capital. Hampshire College was a holdover from a more optimistic era. https://t.co/BGfXkDnDwm 511 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Need a quick $25? A flurry of cash advance apps would just LOVE to give it to you. But their generosity comes with serious strings attached. https://t.co/aA8ZM6WWs1 718 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Late last month, Mongolia hosted the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. But as @DKruzman, the “solutions” on offer fail to serve the nomadic herders in the nation. https://t.co/5i4IbGyOG4 1.1K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 The only guarantee in today’s America is that everything’s a gamble. Our latest issue considers risk and its many industries: insurance, prediction markets, payday lending, and the high-stakes, low-brow world of improv comedy. https://t.co/XXqOawYSit 1.8K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 Baffler no. 85, “Over Under,” is online now, with work from @davehill77, @madeleineebaker, S. C. Cornell, @dennismhogan, @z_hu__, Ash Sanders, @a_nathanwest, @danielkolitz, Jimmy Cajoleas, Kurt Woerpel, and more. https://t.co/F0kBxzUTiY 869 views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026