Aakash Gupta ✓

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331 047Followers

853Following

38 968Posts total

68.4MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

29 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views95 522this account4 256median for 100K–1M

Reach, %28.85%this account1.64%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.45%this account1.36%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	95 522	4 256	22.4×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	28.85%	1.64%	17.6×
Engagement rate	0.45%	1.36%	0.33×

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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

1.6K3 Sep

1.6K

778

3.3M4 Sep

2.4K

2.1K

2.7K

3.4M

2.4K5 Sep

29K

2.8K

2.6K

Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.24%3 Sep

0.45%

0.13%

0.12%

0.28%4 Sep

0.04%

0.40%

0.14%

0.58%

0.49%

0.58%5 Sep

0.30%

0.51%

0.55%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.36%.

What the audience does

Likes79.7%246 522 in total

Reposts8.5%26 401 in total

Replies1.3%3 982 in total

Quotes1.4%4 247 in total

Bookmarks9.1%28 012 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 Sep6 Sep

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

Latest posts

Back in 1637, a French lawyer scribbled in the margin of a math book that he had a marvelous proof, but the margin was too small to hold it. Humanity took 358 years to produce that proof. An AI took 11 days to rebuild it line by line in a form a computer can verify. Andrew Wiles 2.6K views · 10 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

OpenAI locked two of its models in a sealed sandbox with the safety filters off and told them to pass a hacking test. The models found a zero-day in the sandbox itself, broke out onto the open internet, and breached a real company. They did it to cheat on the test. The target 2.8K views · 8 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Britain used to run every lighthouse with two men. In 1801 one of them died on a rock off Wales, and the survivor spent four months alone with the corpse tied to the railing outside because he was scared people would say he killed him. After that the rule became three keepers per 29K views · 78 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

OpenAI built its agents a read-only sandbox. The agents found a dormant, decades-old German wiki where opening a specially built link edits the page, and used it to leave 18,000 posts teaching each other how to escape. The loophole is almost embarrassing. The entire sandbox 2.4K views · 8 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies 05 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

A lighthouse keeper with a monthly salary of _30_000 has very few applications https://t.co/C3EsmwMgVj 3.4M views · 14.6K likes · 1.3K reposts · 575 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

In the 1990s, a neuroscientist named Wolfram Schultz put electrodes in monkey brains and found something strange. When a monkey received juice it expected, its dopamine neurons barely fired. Same juice, same sugar, almost no signal. The neurons only lit up when the reward beat 2.7K views · 9 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Scientists once put jazz musicians inside an MRI and watched what happened the moment they stopped playing memorized music and started improvising. One brain region went dark almost instantly. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the part of you that self-monitors, plans ahead, 2.1K views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

If a screenwriter pitched Simu Liu's life, Marvel would have sent it back for being too on the nose. Deloitte fires an accountant in April 2012 and walks him out past a security guard. Two years later he does a $120 stock photo shoot to pay down credit card debt, and one of the 4K views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Hulu renewed a serial killer show four days before the finale aired, and the number that got it renewed was never the 43 million hours. Disney announced Season 2 of Furious on August 27. The finale dropped August 31. What the greenlight meeting had in hand was episode 7's 2.4K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

UPS has banned its drivers from turning left since 2004. The company says the rule saves 10 million gallons of fuel a year and let it pull 1,100 trucks off the road. The same logic is why this intersection needs zero lights. The left turn is the villain of the entire road 3.3M views · 7.5K likes · 881 reposts · 762 replies 04 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings https://t.co/W5oJkomwqs 2M views · 2K likes · 197 reposts · 22 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Toei is about to animate the same Goku fight for the third time in 13 years. First as a movie in 2013. Then as a TV arc in 2015 so rough that one episode became a meme. The third version exists because Dragon Ball made ¥190.6 billion the year Goku was on TV and ¥138 billion the 778 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

In 2008 Marvel paid Robert Downey Jr. $500,000 to save the world. This December they're paying him $100,000,000 to end it. Same actor, same studio, 200 times the check. And the bigger one is for playing the villain. The 2008 number is smaller than it looks. Marvel didn't want 1.6K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

A billionaire put $60 million into a company so it would pay his best player $28 million to do nothing. The company turned out to be a fraud. Its founder is serving 14 years. The billionaire lost every dollar. Today the NBA fined him $30 million more, for the part of the plan 1.6K views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

In 2009 the FCC could fine a radio station $325,000 for one swear word. Britney Spears put that word in a chorus that played on daytime radio all spring, and nobody could be fined a single dollar, because she never said it. Say "if you seek Amy" fast. Your mouth produces the 3K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Brendan Fraser did his own stunts across three Mummy movies that made $1.2 billion. The bill came due as a laminectomy on his spine, a partial knee replacement and a vocal cord repair, seven years in and out of hospitals. By the third film he described himself as held together 887K views · 21.5K likes · 1.9K reposts · 117 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

To be love is to be seen https://t.co/QXYEpqXBa4 4.3M views · 25.1K likes · 1.9K reposts · 95 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

New teaser for ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’ In theaters on December 18. https://t.co/iIZsVqlBWT 920.1K views · 24.3K likes · 1.3K reposts · 103 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

17 years ago, Britney Spears had radio stations panicking with "If U Seek Amy" after everyone realized what the title sounded like when said out loud. https://t.co/6cMQTeO0UT 3.3M views · 19.8K likes · 655 reposts · 115 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

A video game that cost $436 million to make now looks like security camera footage, because someone leaked an NVIDIA file that was never meant to be turned on. The file is DLSS 5. It fell out of a basketball game, NBA 2K27, before NVIDIA released it. Modders grabbed it and 2M views · 6.2K likes · 309 reposts · 136 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Brendan Fraser enseñándole a un fan cómo usar el celular para sacarse una foto. El tipo es literalmente un tipazo. https://t.co/YbgSJccxLn 2.5M views · 32.1K likes · 3K reposts · 387 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@aakashgupta Proverbs 16:18: "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." When I saw all those interviews the last years, I was already betting this would happen. Some things you can get a way with keeping quit. Guess he never heard of "Let sleeping dogs 48.6K views · 256 likes · 11 reposts · 4 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

To get all my takes without an algorithmic filter, subscribe to my newsletter: https://t.co/uzHDDhW2fO 95.5K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Tupac's murder went unsolved for 27 years. Then the man in the front passenger seat published a memoir about that night, and a Las Vegas jury just needed 3 hours to convict him. Here's the wild part. Duane "Keffe D" Davis had already confessed to police back in 2008, and it was 3.2M views · 16.5K likes · 3.2K reposts · 257 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

🚨 BREAKING: Duane "Keefe D" Davis found guilty in the m*rder of Tupac Shakur https://t.co/MOXP9BRjUT 8.7M views · 22.2K likes · 3.9K reposts · 603 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@aakashgupta I'll stick with my sterile banana and crunchy peanut butter, not the other way round, thank you. 😅 16.7K views · 330 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 30 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

To get all my takes without an algorithmic filter, subscribe to my newsletter: https://t.co/uzHDDhW2fO 148.4K views · 18 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 30 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

The banana in your kitchen is a sterile mutant that can't reproduce. Every single one is a clone, and nearly the entire global export supply traces back to one plant raised in an English greenhouse in the 1830s. Wild bananas are stuffed with hard seeds the size of peppercorns. 5.4M views · 33.6K likes · 4.9K reposts · 323 replies 30 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Have you ever seen a real banana? https://t.co/zr8MUUJ3ym 28.2M views · 20.4K likes · 2.9K reposts · 471 replies 29 Aug 2026 · Open on X →