How pro-government Belarusian TikToks commented

Monitorings

By the end of summer 2025, we decided to analyze the comments left by TikTok users under videos posted on Belarusian pro-government accounts. The following were used to collect the data:Exolyt – TikTok Social Intelligence Platform

The analysis carried out included:

  • Network analysis is available, GPU acceleration was used to speed it up
  • LLM analysis was used to analyze the commentators.
  • Hashtags analysis conducted
  • GPU acceleration using PyTorch was also used to analyze popular comments.
  • OpenAI API has been connected for in-depth analysis
  • The system was initialized with 10 modules available.

For analysis, 5 accounts were taken:

1. First news
Has over 280,000 followers. Basic socio-demographic characteristics:

A total of 522 videos were posted in June-August, which attracted 27,446 comments.
The videos that received the most views:

In total, these videos have collected 38,673,363 views; 559,293 likes; 97,609 reposts.
Now the most popular comments on the videos, posted in the summer of 2025.

# Comment Answers Date Video
1 Why did he drink the oil?
@7002103819681563654
2025-08-08 18:36
2 At this rate it will really get to Lukashenko
@7467523313083089921
2025-07-26 15:23
3 She’s smart and doesn’t bother anyone.
@7198213824057558022
2025-06-17 17:44
4 but it seems demons can’t enter the church🤣…
@7419781505814643745
2025-08-01 13:38
5 Future President of Belarus
@7464337670765888529
6 2025-06-20 07:59
6 What can you do? Service is service.
@6865666060273009669
0 2025-06-17 09:17
7 guys let’s support ✊ Belarus 🇧🇾
@7241194420010714117
5 2025-07-25 10:33
8 This is a bomb that blew up the whole of Belarus🥰We are calm, but when we are insulted or destroyed, then those who offended are destroyed. In the war of the partisans…
@6949848251697480710
2025-07-25 21:16
9 But we had a good laugh😄, TikTok has been laughing for days🤣, let the jester cry😂, the dog barks, the caravan moves on ☺️. And to Father – good health for many years of happiness…
@7262452763426358277
9 2025-07-02 11:36
10 There is no one left to ask at work, only questioners are left 😞
@6794822307253814277
10 2025-07-18 15:43

2. Black Cloak
Has almost 90 thousand followers. Basic socio-demographic characteristics:

A total of 60 videos were posted in June-August, which managed to collect 5405 comments.
The videos that collected the most views:

In total, these videos have collected 10,088,987 views; 206,225 likes; 17,979 reposts.

Now the most popular comments on the videos, posted in the summer of 2025.

# Comment Answers Date Video
1 A man said a man did a thing!
@7233820706042594309
0 2025-07-16 23:15
2 And he’s wanted in Egypt 💀
@6909551447425221637
8 2025-08-16 17:42
3 at least one reasonable president stands up for his people
@7306953513895166981
2025-06-11 14:13
4 Lukashenko is a handsome guy 👍🏻
@6845615118731625477
2 2025-07-18 10:14
5 Belarusians Russian beauties greetings from Ukraine brothers
@6995927839192515589
2025-07-17 21:36
6 Batko loves hard work!!! and values such people.
@7484958811754611720
0 2025-07-17 14:24
7 Kazakh government, listen to the adequate president.!!!!!🔥🔥
@7172879146757637125
8 2025-06-12 02:55
8 Lukashenko is a great president👍🤝
@6652255817733013509
6 2025-07-16 22:49
9 Really good Man!!👍👍👍
@7012691544852874245
1 2025-06-15 05:37
10 after the words “I’ll be in your homeland in 3 days”, I expected anything but praise
@7312535792700867589
0 2025-08-17 07:29

3. ⚡Belarus now
Has over 214 thousand followers. Basic socio-demographic characteristics:

A total of 549 videos were posted in June-August, which attracted 6,567 comments.
The videos that got the most views:

In total, these videos have collected 18,892,542 views; 253,730 likes; 34,179 reposts.
Now the most popular comments on the videos, posted in the summer of 2025.

# Comment Answers Date Video
1 THIS IS A PRESIDENT 🤗♥️👍😎
@6948074631346160646
2 2025-07-03 11:53
2 THE BEST PRESIDENT IN THE WORLD! How lucky I am to be born and live in Belarus ☺️💝🇧🇾
@6921045946080461830
2025-07-03 12:40
3 The guy knows how to be grateful, take note, fellow countrymen!
@6809697924495721478
1 2025-07-03 12:45
4 let’s take the bus😂😂😂👍👍👍
@6884636439008478209
0 2025-08-16 16:55
5 why am i crying🥹🥹
@6855737032531608582
2025-07-03 12:16
6 Damn, even something inside me skipped a beat🥹 I always said that we are Slavs, one people
Sa svyatam, native Belarus!!!

@7103509032660485125
4 2025-07-03 13:14
7 It’s so nice it brings tears to my eyes 😇❤
@7251231231353947141
1 2025-07-03 12:15
8 And the troops from Belarus did not go to Kyiv in 2022?
@7065306496757744646
2025-07-03 14:58
9 A sense of humor is an integral part of intelligence! Nice people!
@6995547428980917253
1 2025-08-16 17:17
10 The technologist didn’t lose his head under such pressure! Well done! Feisty!
@6938442380639585285
3 2025-07-08 13:54

4. ON LIFE
Has over 245 thousand followers. Basic socio-demographic characteristics:

A total of 566 videos were posted in June-August, which attracted 20,815 comments.
The videos that received the most views:

In total, these videos have collected 51,196,843 views; 799,390 likes; 345,164 reposts.
Now the most popular comments on the videos, posted in the summer of 2025.

# Comment Answers Date Video
1 oh I was hoping for a dodo😓
@6965081024783860737
2025-07-22 00:46
2 What had to happen to get carried away by ont
@6933942703643444229
2025-08-18 09:40
3 soon, in all schools of the country!!!😂😂😂
@7194331877921817605
2025-08-18 12:20
4 Fans of the elevator, train, intercom, that’s okay… BUT THERE ALSO ARE FANS OF THE EMAE TV CHANNELS
@7172855813571118086
2025-08-18 08:36
5 +another phobia😳
@6972597127093273605
9 2025-07-17 09:26
6 Just don’t associate the victory with school. Tutors, self-education, curiosity and persistence in achieving his goal became the basis of his victory
@6889909537617593350
2025-08-02 04:10
7 Grandfather was born
@7007845163612603398
2025-08-18 07:22
8 😭 she hid, and they got to her again. Now she will definitely disappear
@6779638987802199046
2025-07-22 05:19
9 One of those things that you will be so ashamed to remember later…
@6795815984797549573
6 2025-08-18 04:19
10 And therefore he will work as a teacher for 800 rubles.
@6871143641159730178
2025-08-02 04:34

5. ctvby
Has over 51 thousand followers. Basic socio-demographic characteristics:

A total of 159 videos were posted in June-August, which attracted 2,355 comments.
The videos that received the most views:

In total, these videos have collected 5,003,163 views; 64,729 likes; 32,402 reposts.
Now the most popular comments on the videos, posted in the summer of 2025.

# Comment Answers Date Video
1 It is necessary to make physical education ungraded, then children will go to physical education with pleasure
@6889859229873636358
2025-08-14 16:27
2 In Belarus with our incomes it is a big problem from the last one built and here you are. I sympathize, hold on.
@7414512683913118725
2025-07-14 13:51
3 There, everyone knows each other, so everything is cultured. In Minsk, everything would have been stolen long ago, along with the tent.
@7176843694913029125
2025-08-04 06:40
4 and the tinting does not interfere with the view
@6871659205486445574
7 2025-06-03 18:45
5 This is how you need to live, learn 🥰🥰🥰
@6975732934288344070
2 2025-08-04 07:38
6 physical education, labor, the most useless thing in school😂😂😂
@7430510025947055110
2025-08-14 16:36
7 Well done!!! Respect!!!
@6631487112108851205
2 2025-08-04 04:39
8 I even shed tears🤗 – pride for Belarus
@7083040443981939718
3 2025-08-04 09:24
9 At least they could start some kind of collection. I think we could all help people. Restoring a house is beyond the means of many
@6914947320908039174
2025-07-14 15:56
10 Lord! Save and protect! How terrible it is 🥺 I sympathize with you with all my heart! What a blessing that no one was killed!!!
@7002896028795094021
2 2025-07-14 13:15

When analyzing 1,856 videos, 62,588 comments and a total of 123+ million views, the “discussion layer” under the content turns out to be heterogeneous. In three channels that purposefully promote the image of the leader of the Belarusian regime (and are not TV showcases like ONT LIFE and CTVBY), the comments look like they were formed “turnkey”: short enthusiastic formulas with the same emoji, slogans repeated many times, the same constructions under different videos and an almost complete absence of detailed responses-dialogues.

Based on the sample of the most liked comments, this is visible to the naked eye: at the top are the same type of laudatory messages with minimal variations in text and emoji, and such comments are found in batches under different videos in narrow time windows. It is this “added” mass of uniform responses that creates a sense of consensus and increased loyalty, but does not lead to a meaningful discussion; rather, it masks the absence of a real conversation with the audience.

Against the background of this “automated choir,” television showcases look different: due to soft, everyday and “explanatory” content, they collect most of the coverage and a more diverse, but still superficial reaction – likes, short approvals, neutral remarks. Where the focus is shifted to a personalistic agenda, there is a synthetic build-up of approval; where everyday stories prevail, the comments, although not deep, are less like replicated slogans.

In a practical sense, this means a simple thing: the total engagement figures without adjusting for “bot-like” patterns overestimate the degree of support and underestimate the share of criticism or doubts. To correctly interpret the metrics of publications about such channels, it is necessary to directly record the presence of types of repeated messages, low “thread depth” and simultaneous bursts of identical phrases.

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