Internet groups with shared rituals, language and leaders. Sourced profiles of online cults, algorithmic relationship coaching groups, and memetic internet communities that operate through digital platforms.
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An avant-garde internet art collective and decentralized NFT subculture founded in 2021 that explicitly weaponizes 'network spirituality', hyperstition, and ironic cult aesthetics to generate high-cohesion pseudonymous swarm behavior across social platforms.
A decentralized, crowdsourced digital millenarian phenomenon characterized by collaborative cryptic interpretation ('baking drops'), apocalyptic dualism, and algorithmically reinforced epistemic closure across social media.
An online New Age relationship coaching enterprise and self-declared 'Church of Union' founded by Jeff and Shaleia Ayan that exploits romantic loneliness through closed Facebook forums, high-cost Zoom classes, 'Mirror Exercise' self-blame, and assigned 'Twin Flame' pairings.
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