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Premium Episode 225: Witch Tok (Sample)

QAA Podcast

Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

There is a world that blends ancient arcane arts and algorithm-powered short form video content. That world is "Witch Tok," the community of self-described witches and other supposed wielders of magic who discuss the secrets of their craft on Tik Tok. Liv dives into Witch Tok to reveal how 21st century witches are leveraging social media to swap spells, hawk merch, and engage in occasional infighting. We also discover how christian media is reacting the popularity of online witches and continuing the centuries-old feud between protestants and those they accuse of being occultist devil worshippers. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to ongoing series like 'Manclan', 'Trickle Down', and The Spectral Voyager: http://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. http://qanonanonymous.com

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0:00.0

Welcome listener to premium chapter 225 of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast, The Witch

0:21.6

Talk episode. As always, we are your host, Jake Rockatansky, and Travis View.

0:26.9

Magical spells, archaic cabinets filled with obscure mystical ingredients, broomsticks

0:33.7

and viewed with special powers, cauldrons filled with murky substances made for

0:38.4

nefarious purpose. These things are all stereotypical images related to witchcraft,

0:42.8

they were all surely familiar with, through their presentation and things like

0:46.1

books, television and movies, but what if I were to tell you that it was all real?

0:49.9

Well, at least according to some people, and by people, I don't just mean

0:54.2

17th century New Englanders paranoid about devil worship in their colony. It turns

0:59.0

out there is a surprisingly large community of people on TikTok who believe they

1:03.0

possess many of the same magical abilities that witches have as seen in

1:06.8

popular culture. This subgroup that calls itself witch talk has accrued more than

1:11.0

46 billion video views of which he related content on the online video

1:15.6

sharing site filled with expert and novice spellcasters alike who share the

1:19.4

skills and expertise required to, according to them, cast magical spells using a

1:24.1

variety of obscure ingredients. Now this is very interesting to me. I wonder if

1:29.3

there's something about the short form video social media platform that lends

1:33.0

itself more to the arcane arts more so than say YouTube or Twitter. Exactly. Yeah,

1:38.7

I definitely feel like spells work better on a medium that's you know 30

1:43.5

seconds to a minute long. Yeah, you don't want to think about it for too long.

1:47.1

It's like here's a little bit of how to do it and what it does and that's about

1:50.9

it. Yeah, they cut like right as the tip of the wand is sort of lighting up. Not

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