My Life Online

Cult or Commune: Inside 'The Garden' (1x12)

Air date: May 23, 2021

In this episode of My Life Online, Vice dives into the world of “Culttok" - Tiktok’s obsession with cults. After more than a decade of operating as a small off-the-grid farm, The Garden decided to try to attract more people to their commune by using Tiktok and they went viral. A few days later, Tiktok is filled with amateur detectives dedicated to exposing The Garden as a dangerous cult. But was The Garden a cult? Or was it just an online witch hunt? Vice takes a close look behind the hysteria.