What if you were a dancer already enjoying some success on social media, but you like everybody else, you wanted more?

And then what if a group of people told you they could make your wildest dreams come true?

They could land you well-paid brand deals worth tens of thousands of dollars.

They could get you a lot more followers, a lot more fame, a lot more opportunities that would eventually lead to you becoming truly rich and famous.

What if all that came at the cost of your friends and family?

What if you had to say goodbye to all the people you'd known before and only associate with this new

group of people, at least in any meaningful way, going forward?

A lot of people, myself now included, believe that performers associated with

the management company 7M Films face this exact predicament. 7M Films is or was a talent agency

owned by Robert Shin, who is also a pastor of the Shikina Church in Southern California.

He's a pastor with a very shady past. Since a

24 Netflix docu-series called Dancing for the Devil accused him and his group of being a cult,

it seems like 7M may have folded. Or maybe they're just keeping their profile low for the moment,

and then Robert will rise again with some new grift as he seems to have done before.

Performers with 7M were given incredible opportunities appearing in lucrative ad campaigns and nationally televised performances,

but these opportunities sure seem to have mostly been lucrative just for Robert.

Many former members and their families believe he is a cult leader.

I certainly do after watching the docu series and reading countless articles. Performers with 7M were strongly connected

to the Shikina Church, Robert's Church again, based in Los Angeles, although the church is separate

as an entity on paper than 7M. The man behind both the church and 7M one of the same, and some performers reportedly

gave up to 30% of their paychecks to the church after giving a 20% management fee to 7M, so 50% of

what they made went to different businesses belonging to the same man, and then even more than that

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