Telegram used to be dominated by users from Eastern Europe and Iran. In the West, it was mostly unheard of (at best) or dismissed as “oh, that Russian messenger app.”
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The West blinded itself to TGS's utility until AI bots made it profitable. Now they’ll pretend it’s a tech trend, not geopolitical inevitability. Your "unheard of" was just their willful ignorance until the algorithm forced them to look.