“Conspiracy stuff is challenging what we take for granted - the most extreme example being the flat-Earth thing,” says David Robertson, a lecturer in religious studies at the Open University in the U.K. The DayLife Army’s origins in Weird Facebook, and the particularities of its belief system, may be unique, but the organization shares something in common with contemporary conspiracy theory groups and far-right online communities, which tend to embrace a similar mix of memes, irony, and insider-outsider thinking. “Sometimes people find different ways to reproduce situations that were essentially traumatizing to deal with.” “We grew up in a high-control group,” he said. However, he stressed that he understood why an individual like his sister might end up following the path she chose based on their family’s strict religious background. Reached for comment for this story, Kyp Malone, KoA’s brother, said that while he loved and respected his sister, he chose not to know the specifics of the situation. If anything, I feel like the real art piece of the thing is just basically that they recreated the exact abusive structure of the quote-unquote Pain Matrix.” “You’re being inflated with this importance that you’re saving the world, thinking that you’re in new biblical times and everyone around you is the most pivotal person ever, and you’re creating a new way of life, the greatest artistic statement of your century. “It hurt - especially because the initial thing that was tapped into was, ‘You’re going to be this legendary artist,’” he says. Matthew believed that Tumple was doing something wholly new, but at the end of the day, he realized Wiz-EL and KoA had just created another cult. He recognized his experiences in the tales of other victims: the minute rules and the punishments for violating them, the incessant cleaning and menial labor, the constant fundraising and recruitment, the charismatic leaders claiming supernatural authority. “The idea of needing to sacrifice one’s ego, of needing to destroy people in order to bring in a new matrix,” was a common refrain among survivors, he said. He also began attending a monthly group meeting for cult survivors.Īt first, he said, the thing that struck him was “how similar everyone’s stories were.” Matthew moved back home in late 2018 and eventually entered treatment with therapists specialized in recovery from cultic groups. POPOffensive Field Notes//GalacticFederation DayLife Military//EarthDate Nov 27, 2016//Gig Harbor, WA, USA?Įdited 3 time(s). The DayLife Army always seemed like a troll. [ Inside the Social Media Cult That Convinces Young People to Give Up Everything
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