In one video, a young woman reports her “first interaction with Satan” who she claims to have engaged in dialogue with thanks to her “extensively practiced clairaudience”. She claims that the encounter began with her unexpectedly sensing “a very intense spooky energy” which, after performing some kind of divination method, she identified to be the devil. Satan — who apparently goes by the pronouns “they/them” — then told her that “despite being from Hell, a very intense place”, “we are not inherently bad”. The encounter culminates in the devil asking the woman if “they” can try some of her cookies, followed by about 350 thousand likes and six thousand comments. One reads, “tell Satan I would like to be his friend, he seems nice”.
In another clip, a pink-haired practitioner of “magick” reports how since beginning her rituals, she has experienced bouts of “constant ringing” in her ears. Though she seems convinced that tinnitus is a perfectly normal symptom of her “spiritual awakening”, she is not the only one to have incurred negative side effects. In perhaps the most disturbing video within the genre, one young woman films herself with the caption “you were so into spirituality, what happened?” followed by a series of images depicting humanoid shadow entities lurking in various rooms. Now haunted by uninvited paranormal guests, the young woman — who stares into her camera with menacing facial expressions to the growl of distorted electronic music — has subsequently given up on being “into spirituality”.
Anyone who believes in the supernatural is bound to be at least slightly concerned by these incidents of young women who, after experimenting with occult practices, claim to have felt, heard or seen uncanny phenomena.
Much of this has been downplayed to avoid a repeat of Satanic panic.