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Zuri ΘΔ

@therian.blog
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ΘΔ (they/she) A weird autistic trans therian. Age: 1/4 century Theriotype(/-s): Puma Lineage Cladotherian I host lectures and do some research about therianthropy on the side. Blog: therian.blog (mostly German, sometimes English articles) EN/DE

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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 19/08/2026
Currently working on a bigger article about species dysphoria. Progress is slow at them moment, since I'm also having to deal with shingles, but steady.
A cat lying in front of a computer screen. On the screen, in the background, a MAXQDA window is open, and in the foreground, a portion of an argument map is opened in another window.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 11/08/2026
I'm happy to say that while yes, the saga continues, Lola granted me enough time today to take my (mostly German) #therian blog back online after more than a year: therian.blog/posts/2608-w... 🐈
You guessed it: a cat sitting (to some degree) on a computer keyboard, in front of the screen. On the screen, the website therian.blog is opened.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 04/08/2026
The saga continues. It's 11:20 AM, and apperently, my work on the computer is done for today. Off to the library for a learning session it is, I guess.
A photograph of a norwegian forest cat lying on her side, with her head completely covering the right part of a computer keyboard.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 03/08/2026
Looks like I'm relieved of computer duties for today… PS: Yes, I have reached the age where I put stickies with keyboard shortcuts on my monitor. 😹
Photograph of a norwegian forest cat lies in front of a screen with her front right-hand paw covering part of the keyboard, looking into the camera. The screen has a sticky note on it.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 20/03/2026
This decline of this recent wave of attention, compared to a month ago, is the most visible in the ≤ 14 days area at the bottom of the graph. Its decline around two weeks ago now, naturally, reaches the ≤ 30 days mark, leading to my metric of ”past 30 days“ now slowly getting smaller, again, too.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 20/03/2026
While it's still many of the same videos, the numbers result from the peak of the recent wave of attention (around Feb 19) having now passed the 30 days mark. You can see this in the first graph, since all significant change in the past few days was a redistribution within the ≤ 90 days region.
A heatmap showing the Jaccard overlap between the different collection dates.

At its lowest, it seems to be around 0.4 (on the outermost edges, showing the overlap between the oldest and the most recent dataset). There is a significant area of increased overlap after 2026-03-05, where even the lowest overlaps are around 0.6.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 20/03/2026
We are slowly, but surely moving back on the share of recent videos in the Top 300 search results for ”therian“ on YouTube, ordered by popularity (51.4% from the past 30 days as of this morning). #therian #otherkin
Graph showing the ”video age composition over time [for the] Top 300 YouTube search results for therian“. The x axis shows the collection date (20206-02-27 to 2026-03-20), the y axis the ”Share of videos (%); Data Source: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18774469“.

The data is visualized in age buckets:
≤ 14 days, ≤ 30 days, ≤ 90 days (3 months), ≤ 365 days (1 year), ≤ 730 days (2 years), and > 730 days.

In the beginning (up until around 2026-03-03), older videos (> 1 year) got replaced by more recent videos. The 14 days bucket begins to drop back down after that, followed by the 30 days bucket about 2 weeks after that. In the past few days, more than 15 % of the ≤ 30 days bucket moved into the ≤ 90 days bucket. However, above the 90 day mark, everything remains mostly the same for the time being, with no significant changes to the shares of ≤ 365 days, ≤ 730 days, and > 730 days.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 15/03/2026
An animated graph from my analysis of the Top 300 YouTube search results for "therian" over the past few days. Note that while, naturally, more recent videos also show up as time progresses, the mode (highest peak) remains around the Feb 19th (± 3 days). #therian #otherkin
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 09/03/2026
Most definitely. The results (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) also include the attached plot of language prevalence within these ”recent“ videos. es=Spanish th=Thai pt=Portugese en=English
Bar Graph with a title ”Recent videos (<= 30 days) in All-Time-TOP-300: language prevalence – therian“. The axis label reads ”number of videos“. Spanish has 185 (96.9%), Thai 2 (1.0 %), Portugese 2 (1.0 %), English 1 (0.5 %), and Unknown 1 (0.5 %)
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 07/03/2026
Interesting (I love these sorts of ”more about me“ kind of challenges, they're also a great opportunity to reflect on almost forgotten memories, so here we go)... I'm not really sure if these nine games ”made me who I am“, but they definitely stuck with me in terms of (fond) memories. my9games.com
A 3 by 3 grid of video game covers. Top to bottom, left to right: Sim City 2000, Zoo Tycoon Complete Edition, The Sims 3, FIFA Soccer 09, Microsoft Flight Simulator X (the original release, not the Steam version), Star Wars Battlefront II, Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4, Wolf Quest, and Planet Zoo.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 03/03/2026
And ... we're past the 60% mark. As of a few hours ago (today), 63.8% of the Top 300 YouTube search results for ”therian“ were uploaded in the past 30 days. #therian #otherkin Source and more details: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Graph showing the recent uploads in all-time top 300 per days for the search term therian. There is some minor activity between Feb 2 and Feb 10. After that, it rises to reach its peak on Feb 19 with 20 uploads. after that, it more or less steadily falls back down up to Mar 03.Graphs showing age distribution of Top 300 YouTube search results for the term ”therian“. Check linked DOI link for details.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 02/03/2026
We're up to 57.6 % today. This seems to, based on a visual interpretation of the graphs, stem from both new videos getting uploaded as well as more videos from the peak around Feb 18 getting more and more views and thus moving into the Top 300 by now. #therian #otherkin doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
A plot showing the »Recent uploads in All-Time-Top-300 per day for therian«, with videos uploaded on the y axis and day (UTC) on the x axis. The visual median is around Feb 19 or Feb 20 with peaks at 20 videos per day.Graphs showing the age distribution of the all-time-top-300 YouTube search results for »therian« on YouTube. The age graph shows a significant flat bit close to age 0 (consisting of recent uploads). Only at around 60 % of the graph's length, the graph curves upwards to a linear ascent, showing a somewhat regular distribution of uploads up to age = 1000 days. No significant amount of videos above the age of 1000 days appears to be in the top 300 search results.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 25/02/2026
Plots of the results
Plot showing the age distribution. A lot of videos have been published very recently.Plot showing that 99.3 % (147) of the ”recent videos“ within 30 days have the language marker ”es“ for Spanish. Just one of the 148 total videos doesn't and is marked as ”unknown“.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 25/02/2026
I mean ... I knew that the current attention on the topic was high, but ... holy moly: The Google Trends graph for worldwide ”therian“ searches makes the rise around 2024-2025, which I usually describe in my lectures, look like a small bump 🙀. I guess I have to update my slides... #therian #otherkin
Google trends graph showing the interest over time worldwide for the past five years. It stays mostly flat / close to 0 until around 2023. Then, in the end of 2023, it rises up to 13 on the scale. Then flattens out and in 2025 goes back down and flattens out at around 6 or 7 on the scale. From Jan 2026 to Feb 2026, it rises from 6 to 100 on the scale. Outside February 2026, the maximum value overall is at 13.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 07/09/2025
On my way back from #Eurofurence 29. Mask and tail didn't fit into into my bag anymore (dealer's den did its thing 😅), so a train ride wearing them is what it is 🐱...
Person wearing a Therian style snep mask, wearing a staff Eurofurence badge and a green shirt saying "Eurofurence Press Team" sitting in a Deutsche Bahn train
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 07/09/2025
It was great meeting you, thanks again for your wonderful panel!
Person wearing a Therian style snep mask, wearing a staff Eurofurence badge and a green shirt saying "Eurofurence Press Team" sitting in a Deutsche Bahn train
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 22/08/2025
Update: Yes, the business cards arrived in time 😸.
Two business cards with rounded corners, one showing the front and one the backside. The background is green. On the front, there is the logo of the blog and a text "therian.blog". The back shows an image of a mountain lion, text "Zuri (blurred last-name) (they/she). therian.blog. Feline in a human body. Lectures and Workshops. It also shows an email address – info at therian dot blog – as well as the Bluesky username therian.blog. A reference to the Telegram username is blurred.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 13/08/2025
Just ordered a bunch of "business" cards for my work around therianthropy. Hopefully, they'll arrive in time for #eurofurence, as it looks like there are three panels surrounding #therian and #otherkin topics lined up for day 3 of the schedule (one of which is hosted by @woelfisch.de).
Test print of business cards. The front contains a modified theta delta icon (my blog's logo) and the text "therian.blog" in white letters on dark green background. The back contains several (partially blurred) links to email, Blueskz, and Telegram. Additionally, a grayscale image of a puma is shown on the right side.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 22/07/2025
Norwegian Forest Cat on a wooden plank on the balcony.
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