{
"meta": {
"title": "Zeigarn — the loops your mind can't close",
"description": "Why you feel empty when nothing is wrong. Why you put off what matters most. Why your mind won't stop at 3 a.m. Real psychology and real studies, in cinematic pixel-art films that talk to you.",
"ogAlt": "A man in red-tinted glasses sitting on a rooftop ledge at night, in pixel art"
},
"ui": {
"skip": "Skip to content",
"site": "Site",
"home": "Zeigarn — back to the roof",
"primary": "Primary",
"language": "Language",
"subscribe": "Subscribe",
"menu": "Menu",
"close": "Close",
"scroll": "Scroll",
"latest": "Watch the latest film",
"latestShort": "Latest film",
"footer": "Footer",
"someLoops": "Some loops stay open.",
"soundOn": "Sound on",
"soundOff": "Sound off"
},
"hud": {
"loading": "Loading",
"full": "99% — some loops stay open."
},
"nav": {
"films": "Films",
"loop": "Next loop",
"work": "Work with me"
},
"label": {
"roof": "The roof",
"name": "The name",
"room": "The room",
"shelves": "The shelves",
"crowd": "The crowd",
"gate": "The gate",
"closeup": "Close-up",
"stop": "The stop",
"radio": "The radio",
"dawn": "Before dawn"
},
"hero": {
"l1": "The loops your mind",
"l2": "can't close.",
"lead": "What you feel has a name and a mechanism. Real psychology and real studies, in cinematic pixel-art films that talk to you."
},
"name": {
"title": "Why the channel is called Zeigarn",
"b1l1": "1927 · Berlin",
"b1l2": "Unfinished.",
"b1": "The story goes that a waiter remembered every open order and forgot each one the moment it was paid. The psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik put it to the test: people recalled interrupted tasks better than finished ones.",
"b2l1": "2025 · Bern",
"b2l2": "Still open.",
"b2": "A meta-analysis of the decades of studies since found that the memory advantage doesn't reliably hold. What does hold is the pull to go back and finish. Even the effect this channel is named after is an open loop.",
"b3l2": "Close one.",
"b3": "Every film takes one loop your mind can't close — emptiness, overthinking, putting things off — and shows you the mechanism behind it, with real studies and real numbers. What you feel has a name. You are not broken."
},
"films": {
"l1": "Now showing",
"play": "Play here",
"loop": "The loop",
"closed": "Closed with",
"chapters": "Chapters",
"open": "Open on YouTube",
"studies": "{n} studies cited",
"channels": "Channels",
"view": "{n} view",
"views": "{n} views",
"premieres": "Premieres {date}",
"noSignal": "No signal",
"inProduction": "In production",
"youChoose": "You choose it"
},
"series": {
"l1": "Three kinds of",
"l2": "open loops",
"film": "1 film",
"films": "{n} films",
"soon": "First film soon"
},
"vocab": {
"l1": "Every feeling",
"l2": "has a picture.",
"lead": "The films have their own visual language. When the narration talks about your heart, a pulse appears. When it talks about loneliness, you stand in colour in a grey crowd.",
"shorts": "Shorts",
"items": {
"ecg": {
"name": "ECG",
"means": "Anxiety, stress"
},
"crowd": {
"name": "Grey crowd",
"means": "Loneliness"
},
"battery": {
"name": "Battery",
"means": "Burnout, emptiness"
},
"rain": {
"name": "Rain",
"means": "Low mood"
},
"eyes": {
"name": "Eyes in the dark",
"means": "Feeling judged"
},
"mask": {
"name": "Mask",
"means": "Pretending to be fine"
},
"thoughts": {
"name": "Thought bubbles",
"means": "Overthinking"
},
"maze": {
"name": "Maze",
"means": "Feeling stuck"
},
"mirror": {
"name": "Mirror",
"means": "Not recognising yourself"
},
"chains": {
"name": "Chains",
"means": "Guilt, pressure"
},
"loadbar": {
"name": "99 %",
"means": "Unfinished things"
},
"hourglass": {
"name": "Hourglass",
"means": "Putting things off"
},
"notify": {
"name": "Notifications",
"means": "Distraction"
},
"chart": {
"name": "Study card",
"means": "Real numbers"
}
}
},
"loop": {
"l1": "Which loop",
"l2": "should I close next?",
"lead": "Vote for the next film, or write the thought that won't leave you alone. I read every one.",
"pollAria": "Vote for the next film",
"options": {
"procrastination": "Why you put off what matters most",
"overthinking": "Why your mind won't stop at night",
"lonely": "Why you feel lonely around people",
"tired": "Why you're tired even after sleeping",
"biases": "Why smart people believe dumb things",
"replay": "Why you replay embarrassing moments"
},
"note": "One vote. Results after you vote.",
"voted": "Voted. This loop stays open until the film is out.",
"voteError": "Couldn't save the vote. Try again in a moment.",
"resting": "The poll is resting. Back soon.",
"ideaLabel": "The thought that won't leave",
"ideaPlaceholder": "Why do I…",
"send": "Send",
"short": "A few more words.",
"sending": "Sending…",
"sent": "Sent. It's on my list.",
"limit": "One thought a minute. Try again soon.",
"sendError": "Couldn't send it. Try again in a moment.",
"care": "Anonymous. Please leave out names and personal details. If you're struggling right now, talk to someone you trust — findahelpline.com."
},
"about": {
"l1": "The man in",
"l2": "the glasses",
"lead": "I'm Kaan. Every film starts with a question I couldn't put down and ends with the studies that answer it. The man on the roof is me: a new world every episode, the same glasses every time."
},
"work": {
"l1": "Your product,",
"l2": "inside a world.",
"lead": "Every film is a world of its own. A sponsor can be part of it: written into the story and drawn in the same style, never a pasted-in ad.",
"f1t": "A world of its own",
"f1": "A full scene built around what your product actually does.",
"f2t": "A moment in the story",
"f2": "A short spoken segment inside an upcoming film, where it fits.",
"f3t": "Found for years",
"f3": "Films answer questions people keep searching for, so they keep being found long after release.",
"fit": "Best fit: tools for sleep, focus, learning and wellbeing.",
"cta": "Email about a partnership"
},
"radio": {
"l1": "Between",
"l2": "films",
"lead": "Games and apps I've built between episodes. The full portfolio is at demirkaan.com.",
"game": "Game",
"ios": "iOS app",
"app": "App",
"web": "Web",
"windows": "Windows",
"help": "App or game not working? help@zeigarn.com"
},
"dawn": {
"l1": "Some loops",
"l2": "stay open.",
"lead": "Every lit window in this city is someone who subscribed. Light yours.",
"leadN": "Every lit window in this city is someone who subscribed. {n} are on. Light yours.",
"leadOne": "Every lit window in this city is someone who subscribed. One is on. Light yours.",
"cta": "Light a window"
},
"foot": {
"privacy": "Privacy",
"care": "Education, not medical advice. If you're struggling, talk to someone you trust — findahelpline.com.",
"studio": "Zeigarn Studio: Privacy Policy · Terms of Service",
"small": "Business: contact@zeigarn.com · Site, privacy or app questions: help@zeigarn.com · © 2026 Kaan Demir"
},
"privacy": {
"title": "Privacy",
"description": "How zeigarn.com handles poll votes, the thoughts you send and technical data, and which outside services the site uses.",
"back": "Back to the roof",
"updated": "Last updated: 28 October 2026",
"s1t": "About this policy",
"s1": "zeigarn.com is the website of the Zeigarn YouTube channel, run by Kaan Demir. This policy covers this website. Questions about it: help@zeigarn.com.",
"s2t": "Votes and the idea box",
"s2": "There are no accounts, cookies or visitor analytics on this website. If you vote in the poll, your choice is stored with a one-way, salted hash of your IP address so each visitor can vote once per round; the IP address itself is not stored, and the hash is deleted after 90 days. If you send a thought through the idea box, the text, the time, the page language and the country reported by our hosting provider are stored so I can read it; a salted hash of your IP address is kept for one minute to limit sending. Please leave out names and personal details. You can ask for a message to be deleted by email.",
"s3t": "Data in your browser",
"s3": "If you choose a language, it is saved in your browser's local storage under zeigarn-language. If you turn the sound on or off, that choice is saved there too, under zg-sound. So that the opening plays once per visit, the site keeps a flag in session storage (zg-night-seen) that disappears when you close the tab. None of this is sent to the server.",
"s4t": "Hosting and outside services",
"s4": "The website is hosted on Cloudflare, which may process technical data such as your IP address, the requested page, the time and your browser information to deliver and protect the site. Fonts and images are served from this website. Film titles and thumbnails load from YouTube (Google), which may receive your IP address and technical request information. A film plays on this page only after you press Play here; the player then loads from YouTube's privacy-enhanced domain (youtube-nocookie.com) under Google's terms. Links to YouTube, the App Store, GitHub, LinkedIn and demirkaan.com are subject to those services' privacy terms.",
"s5t": "Project demos",
"s5": "The game and app demos open on demirkaan.com, a separate site with its own privacy policy. Some of them keep data in your browser or load outside services such as YouTube and Mapillary.",
"s6t": "Contact and requests",
"s6": "If you send an email, your address and message are processed to answer you. You can ask to access, correct or delete your data at help@zeigarn.com. Messages are kept as long as the conversation needs them and as required by law. Changes to this policy are published on this page."
},
"filmPage": {
"back": "All films",
"inside": "What happens inside you",
"remember": "The one thing to remember",
"sources": "Sources",
"watch": "Watch on YouTube",
"care": "Education, not medical advice. If you're struggling, talk to a doctor or someone you trust. In a crisis, call your local emergency number. Free, confidential helplines by country: findahelpline.com."
}
}