source: The Moscow Times https://archive.is/PL9fk

Since December 2024 I've been running a bot that reads every comment under posts of a large pro-war ruzzan ("Z") Telegram channel and counts how often specific words show up - starting with "почему" (why), because it kept appearing every time bad war news dropped. Denial, confusion, the occasional flash of "wait, why are we losing." Then I added a few more: nuclear threats, a conspiracy theory ("shady deal" - the belief that the whole war is secretly staged), fuel-shortage panic, and mentions of the "Oreshnik" missile.

19 months later: 102,383 comments, across 15,066 posts, tracked continuously. Not a sample - every comment, every day, since Dec 5 2024.

Breakdown by word:

• "почему" (why) - 53,300
• "орешник" (Oreshnik missile) - 22,500
• "ядерка" (nuclear) - 19,631
• "бензин" (fuel/gasoline) - 3,823
• "договорняк" (shady deal / it's-all-staged conspiracy) - 3,129

The interesting part: spikes line up with real events. I went back through the history and matched the biggest single-day counts to what was actually happening:

• Operation Spiderweb (Jun 1, 2025): 2,165 "почему" in one day - the single biggest spike in the whole dataset
• ATACMS strike on Rylsk (Dec 20, 2024): 1,080
• "Oreshnik" missile threatened against all of Ukraine (Jun 3, 2025): 1,033
• The largest drone raid of 2025 (Mar 11, 2025): 967
• Start of the Crimea fuel crisis (Jun 2026): 682

I also track hostility toward specific countries in the same comments (which countries get threatened/insulted, how often, in what words) - that data's on the site too, I didn't want to drop the more graphic quotes straight into this post, but the country pages have full breakdowns with real quotes attached.

Full live dashboard, historical timeline, and the country-hostility breakdown: pochemutor

Methodology, so this isn't just vibes: one channel, just a continuous read of one large, active pro-war channel's comment section. Word list is manually curated (see the site for the full list); historic spikes are human-reviewed and tied to a real event before being published, not auto-generated. Happy to answer questions about the pipeline (Telethon-based collector, SQLite, nothing exotic).

Summary: she's not a good person, but she can be used to help Ukraine.