High Weirdness By YouTube
February 15, 2022 8:41 PM   Subscribe

Entertainment Made By Cults is a tight hour of all kinds of things you'd expect to encounter, and a lot of stuff you didn't. It's a fascinating glimpse into the creativity of the fringe, certainly worth a bit of time.
posted by hippybear (8 comments total) 35 users marked this as a favorite
 
Also, like content warnings related to all the nightmarish stuff attached to cults that you can imagine, along with the entertainment bits.
posted by hippybear at 8:46 PM on February 15, 2022


this is gold
posted by clavdivs at 9:35 PM on February 15, 2022


Now doesn't that brings back some unpleasant memories, LOL.

For the Family music clips the author either didn't know or forgot to mention that the vocals from several of them are by Jeremy Spencer, formerly of Fleetwood Mac (The Peter Green version).
posted by WhyamIhereagain at 11:19 PM on February 15, 2022 [3 favorites]


Already I've learned the word "buttjump" so I call it a win!
posted by allthinky at 5:28 AM on February 16, 2022 [1 favorite]


Micah Moses has a weekly show on WFMU, Music of Mind Control, with hours and hours of this stuff archived. It’s also available on your favorite podcast plaform.
posted by 1970s Antihero at 6:06 AM on February 16, 2022 [6 favorites]


> "High Weirdness By YouTube"

[CaptainAmerica]I understood that reference![/CaptainAmerica]
posted by kyrademon at 9:54 AM on February 16, 2022 [1 favorite]


I laughed so hard at the butt-jumping I had to put it away because it was just such the perfect start to my day, I wanted to preserve that feeling.
posted by liminal_shadows at 6:33 AM on February 17, 2022


Pretty interesting, but I'd love to see someone who's watched so much of that junk distill out some common characteristics of cult cultural production. A guide: "How to tell if the music video you're watching was made by a cult." Not because I think I need such a guide, but because the way the cult ethos shows up in the output could be interesting and useful in other situations as well.
posted by Western Infidels at 11:07 AM on February 17, 2022


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