TikTok Cult Leader Who Preaches Anti-Vax Views Now Offering Religious Exemptions for Covid-19..

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TikTok Cult Leader Who Preaches Anti-Vax Views Now Offering Religious Exemptions for Covid-19...
So far, only one person has taken New Age Unicult founder Unicole Unicron up on the offer for an exemption for the Covid-19 vaccine.
rollingstone.com
1:13 PM · Sep 9, 2021

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/covid-vaccine-tiktok-cult-leader-unicult-1221294/

“Today’s sermon is going to be on Unitopian Anarchy and Autonomy,” Unicole Unicron says in the opening of a sermon on YouTube. Clad in an ethereal white veil, against a background of dizzying black-and-white swirls, the leader of the self-described cult Unicult proceeds to spends the next 51 minutes detailing thoughts on the Covid-19 vaccine and why the cult’s leader is not encouraging followers to get the vaccine. “Only you have autonomy over your own body,” says Unicron, who uses xe/xim pronouns. “Do what is right for you. Perform no medical rituals that are against your own strong intuitive knowledge of your personal health.” Unicron then explains why xe believes contracting the virus would not get xim sick, saying, “I have ascended to the point where I am confident that my own experience of my own internal state and my own vibration of harmony is enough to protect me.”

In the sermon, Unicron also promoted the erroneous belief that the Covid-19 vaccine does not reduce the risk of getting or transmitting Covid. “I have done every single thing I can do within my own personal reality to protect myself from my point of view and there are people doing the same with the vaccines, and yet they’re still getting Covid,” xe said in the sermon. “So can we blame them for endangering society?”

Unicole Unicron is the leader of Unicult, an online cult that describes itself as “a collaborative effort for anyone who wants to work towards the goal of creating a bright and hopeful future.” Unicron, who lives in Los Angeles-based and works full-time as a UX writer, decided to start the cult after surviving a suicide attempt, as a way to find purpose and “stay alive.” Xe claims to be a magical being who is in contact with extraterrestrial beings who use xir as a vessel to promote their ideas. Basic admission to the cult, which mostly involves access to its Discord server, costs $11, while becoming a devoted member or a magician (essentially, a Unicult clergy member) costs $22 and $33, respectively.

Over the past few years, Unicult has received bemused, vaguely positive press coverage, including a 2018 viral story when Unicron announced plans to open the world’s first sex robot brothel (the project was scrapped because of a lack of funding), and a 2019 Vice video profile titled “Finding Salvation with an Online Cult“; xe has also attracted attention for “brainwashing” videos on YouTube and for attempting to sell a “spiritual sex tape” for $444. Unicult has largely escaped much serious scrutiny, in part due to its candy-colored, hyperpop aesthetic and its tongue-in-cheek messaging; in a 2016 piece, for instance, Vice writer Leigh Alexander praised the cult, saying of Unicron, “the idea of a divine digital pop star witch from space is… charmingly reminiscent of a long-gone tech utopian dream.” Many have interpreted the fact that Unicult is open about being a cult as a performance art piece or a commentary on religion and mindless consumer culture, rather than taking its self-designation at face value.

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Wut?!?

[Skittles]

1. hard to draw the line

what do we say about people who believe in virgin birth, rising from the dead, etc

[royable]

2. Coming soon: "TikTok Cult Leader Who Preaches Anti-Vax Views Now Intubated in Hospital" n/t

[Haggard Celine]

3. I'm selling indulgences to people who get vaccinated.

Show me your card and I'll let you commit 1 mortal sin or 3 venial sins.

[PortTack]

4. Those on TikToc, please report it! They are good about taking that nonsense down

[Initech]

5. Bioterrorist