Yeah. It seems like the big wave has passed for now. Still, it remains to be seen what it will mean for the future that apparently, political instrumentalisation of the topic has now become more prominent. But I do also see some patterns that give me hope. Time will tell what this means longterm.

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I'm not a statistician (or professional researcher), but I have a background in academia (first in engineering, and later also humanities). I also do a bunch of stuff around therianthropy, professionally (e.g., educating educators about it with lectures), which research projects like this play into.

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At its peak, it was above 99 %: 99.3 % on Feb 25th (doi.org/10.5281/zeno...). Note that these are the percentages within the recently uploaded videos, not (!) all Top 300 videos. Still, it's quite high, of course.

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Yeah... I unfortunately don't know enough Spanish to do a proper qualitative analysis to look into that. But based on the titles (often all-caps, emojis, etc.), a majority seems to at the very least be sensationalist in nature, which ... doesn't exactly make me optimistic about that.

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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

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