One month ago I found myself to be a dragonkin. I talked about it here about what the process of discovery was like: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11301131/ and immediately after, therians (concept nearly identical to otherkin, but applied to real life animals) became a viral news topic in Latin America. Why? No reason at all. Even compared to furries, otherkins and therians are so few and so niche that a normie would be very unlikely to discover the concept alone. But hey, fascism stroke again. Yes because the Argentinian government ran by an anarcho-capitalist needed to give the common folk a new enemy to distract them from other more urgent problems - you know, fascists fascisting. But guess gays and migrants started getting a bit old-fashioned, eh? So here you go, something ready to mock!
And so, Latin American news started making reportages of "Therians", the new LGBT madness, where boys believe to be animals and act like animals in public, probably saying they also shit on the streets. And of course Tiktok spreading the concept. To be fair, the internet already used to mock it (Remember the "On all levels except physical i'm a wolf" meme?), but the fact that now MAINSTREAM MEDIA has started targeting is a huge alarm bell.
And now it's spreding. It's reached Italy. The otherkin Telegram group I'm in posted already an article by a notorious right-wing newspaper and today apparently we were mentioned on a radio station, with the same usual tones.
Needless to say, as I stated in my previous journal: we DO NOT believe to be actual animals, we DO NOT behave like animals in public, being otherkin or therian is only about self-identity and spiritual, it's just a way to say: I have some peculiarities inside me that make me feel like I associate more with this species. THE - END.