witchcraft is an ancient practice that spans countless cultures and centuries but what happens when Magic meets modernity and tradition meets Tick Tock the online witch talk Community is no stranger to toil and trouble with as many hoaxes as there are hexes so the question is are you a good witch or a bad witch I'm going to preface this video by saying we are not going to be addressing the question of whether or not magic is real I used to believe that a certain type of cracker was more holy than other types of crackers so I don't really think I'm in the position to judge people for what they believe however I do think there are a lot of fascinating questions and concerns surrounding the content that many witches pagans and spiritualists post to Tik Tok goish for instance many witches instead of studying Scrolls seem to be more interested in keep keeping people from scrolling threatening viewers with Misfortune if they don't engage of course Tik Tok card readings tend to be suspiciously dramatic it's always a friend praying on your downfall or an ex-lover who wants you back and never anything useful like uh hey your inspection sticker is about to expire or something I don't give a if you don't believe in Tarot readings this video found you for aing reason damn girl okay now I'm not 100% sure how these online tarot readings even work maybe the coven in the comment section could explain this because my understanding was that a reading is supposed to be a very individual experience the posters always insist that if you see their video on your for you page the reading is meant for you well you and the other 8515 people summon by the almighty algorithm you will marry this man in the year 2024 and it will be the best day of your life and your friends will be very jealous of you please reply with I do in the comments to confirm the truth of this prophecy I receive in Jesus name amen I receive I receive in jesus' name what kind of dystopian nightmare is this we've got AI Granny's giving out prophecies before GTA6 another interesting byproduct of the convergence of social media in spirituality is a recent contentious offshoot of paganism that worships pop culture deities funny you should mention that because I work with hatsun Miku so that happens quite a lot what was it like working with Itachi as a pop culture deity in a magical and astral sense my eyes looked like they had unlocked the shingon and directly in front of me I saw a PK manifestation of aachi [Music] [Applause] oio where where were we pop culture pagans are small but very vocal community of practitioners that believe that the intense devotion of fan culture towards popular characters celebrities and icons has the power to create an autonomous psychic entity called an egregor come on keep up if people write enough filthy fanfiction or argue about head cannons and enough Tumblr threads then this egregor feeding off all this scrum didly umptious Collective energy can grow more powerful and even Ascend into a deity all this to say maybe Santa Claus does actually see you when you're sleeping and no when you're awake pop culture pagans often state that these aggregor or deities directly interact with them whether it's putting themselves on the worshippers Pinterest feed so sometimes I'll ask an act to put themselves on my Pinterest even though I haven't looked anything up about them on Pinterest yet so I asked the staran to do it and lo and behle I kept scrolling and then bam there he is or causing their games to glitch because what else are they going to do with all that spiritual time some will even claim that they have married one or more of these deities in an old controversial practice known as God spous thing surprise I married a pop culture deity before I ever I never told y'all um he came before Satan he came before Loki he came before Apollo he was my first ever spouse congratulations to the Happy harm as you might expect many traditional pagans are absolutely horrified by pop culture paganism saying that it's disrespecting an ancient system of belief and also that it's ruining the reputation of an already Fringe Faith some even say that pop culture pagans are being deceived by trickster spirits that are siphoning their energy but you can siphon my energy whenever you want is a God someone started worshiping in 2019 necessarily less valid than a God someone started worshiping in 100 AD are these people spiraling into spiritual psychosis do they just need to get off they damn phones I don't really have a wand in this fight but I will say I'd much rather deal with someone who thinks that hotson and Miku is their God wife who helps them with their homework than someone like this there are shows coming out like Hocus Pocus to Haunted Mansion do not watch these things because you open your home up to the Demonic what you are telling the devil is come on in get my children that's what you're doing I receive in jesus' name I have never seen someone so desperately in need of a Pillsbury Halloween sugar cookie simmer down sister it's going to be okay so you've really tried it all hinge Bumble Tinder grinder Christian Mingle Farmers Only but the only thing you're riding is your broomstick maybe you can solve your singleness with a spell after all the most popular content on witch talk is how to use magic to get yourself a bippity boppity boo I call this my sugar and spice blend because you already know what you're going to do is take a little bit in the palm of your hand before your sneaky link or whoever comes over and blow it on the bed if I hop to bed with you for a little game of rated R twister and it it feels like you just housed an entire sleeve of Oreos in the sheets pre coidus the granular texture against my skin is going to kill my metaphorical a little bit if you don't want it the easy way you're going to have it the hard way with this super powerful spell oh you know I want it the hard way Mr witch mayor sir on a piece of paper you're going to write their full name in red ink and you're going to spray it three times with your favorite perfume and fold it twice towards you then you're going to find some of your underwear and make a hole where you'll insert the paper and you're going to wear it all night hey guys I uh I hate to spoil the spell casting but uh don't put perfume near your uh Tunnel of Love or any scented product for that matter it's going to irritate your skin it's going to throw off your pH balance and it's it's going to make it a lot less comfortable to have it the hard [Music] way so how did you to me oh my goodness so it's actually such a cute story so I wrote his name down five times on a piece of paper and then I put it on my bleeding oh [Music] okay well it's still better than a dating app I know that's right there were like 10 different versions of this menstrual pad love spell they were putting cinnamon in there saliva so many different unique flavors uh I I want to try with hot sauce just to see what'll happen putting period blood in the pasta to make sure your man sticks around uh well i' I've never seen a recipe that required a diva cup before it's pretty creative it doesn't really get much more homegrown than that I mean that's like organic marinara I'm gathering I should probably refuse any milkshakes or lemonade offered to me in this household he called over a hundred times in one hour with this simple communication spell I put honey under my tongue and now he can't function without me use this simple spell to make him obsessed with you does it work I think the better question is what the hell are we doing maybe I'm misunderstanding something but it doesn't seem like there's much room for consent in all of this sugar spice say the incantation Thrice if you truly believe that this magic has power then you're admitting to using Supernatural means to manipulate someone to be with you against their will coercion isn't cute just because the girlies are doing it and some of this stuff is straight up creepy this is a love spell that was done almost 2 years ago the person no longer wants to be with that the the woman so let me get this straight she spiritually bound this innocent woman to a man without her knowledge and then once the man was done with that relationship now she's just going to cut the strings ah I'm sorry is there some kind of Witchcraft police we can call a a Wizarding Supreme Court we could appeal to perhaps why would you do this to someone especially another woman not everyone is love and light I do dark magic and not everyone is okay with that and that's a okay okay yeah I'm I'm going to try that one next time I get pulled over for speeding I'm sorry officer not everyone is love and light look if you need magical intervention to get someone into bed with you that kind of sounds like a skill issue can't relate personally I uh I like to seduce people the old-fashioned way by being irresistably charming and having a fat ass but when it comes to toxic relationship advice on witch talk it doesn't get much worse than twin flames the idea of twin flames dates back to at least ancient Greece but the uh the tick Talk version is a little bit Messier witch talk claims that the twinflame dynamic has a runner and a chaser which is G that already sounds like the train to Nowhere pulling into dulu station the idea is that no matter how much they ghost you or choose other people over you your twin flame will come around eventually and if you try to be with anyone else that's fine you'll just never be truly happy once you've met your twin flame and then you try to go date someone else you'll have this persistent nagging feeling to go back twin is the only soul that you share a soul frequency with now this to me sounds like it can be used to nurture an unhealthy attachment to someone who treats you badly or to continue harassing someone who already told you no I think it's an extremely limiting view of Human Relationships to think that there's only one person in the entire universe that you're meant to be with and I think that the rationale behind twin flames can lead to some pretty awful conclusions what do I do if I'm married or my twin flame is married how are we possibly going to be together you're going to let go of that silly marriage let your partner who isn't your twin flame go hear that fellas leave that wife of two decades for the 19-year-old waitress you made intense eye contact with at the Waffle House it's just a a silly marriage after all that's your twin flame pouring your coffee get your lawyer on the phone stat it's divorce time it's not that easy especially when children are involved it is when you put God in yourself first yeah them kids I think most of us know how stupid our hearts can be and this idea of enshrining our random fantasies in a sacred explanation seems to justify following our most selfish impulses without caring about who we hurt ooh twin flames so romantic way more romantic than most of our actual real world connections [Music] are there are people who believe that the twinflame connection is so strong that you can actually feel what the other person is feeling if you're feeling inexplicable pain I would suggest you check with the doctor just just to be sure and and if it is actually your twin flame uh I would prescribe bottomless Margaritas but by far the most concerning stuff I found on spiritual Tik Tok wasn't love spells dark magic or toxic relationship advice it was this a woman will stay in her masculine energy until a man makes her feel safe to be comfortable in her feminine energy masculine energy looks like this I'm going I am thinking I am I am providing I am determined I am planning I am executing feminine energy looks like receiving relaxing being comfortable being provided for being nurturing being loving get back in the kitchen in uh a a super sexy spiritual way yeah ooh ooh I'm getting vibrations that oh you should be in the kitchen right now no no we're not stripping you of agency and Independence we're we're letting you relax in your feminine energy so so we can do the hard masculine energy stuff like like being CEOs and presidents and passing legislation that dictates what you can and can't do with your body and and and you you know like ruling the world or whatever but boring stuff you wouldn't like it I promise how do you get out of your masculine energy and embrace your feminine energy sometimes as women our environments and circumstances Force us to be in a state of taking action and survival and leading and that's not what we were put here to do now masculine energy is associated with action logic and assertiveness while feminine energy is in this nurturing and receptive State guys are like and girls are like ah see you can forget about that gender studies degree I just saved you over $40,000 you're welcome say that again I liked it [Applause] [Music] that made me feel nasty I feel nasty woman that's in her masculine energy because she's in her head because she's planning this is a low-key stress response for a woman and when a man is around a woman who's in her low-key stress response it triggers it in him he views her as a competitor and not as a possible companion you can see how Insidious this is using welcoming spiritually open language to draw women in especially women who have had negative experiences with restrictive organized religions and then just shoving a repackaged version of the patriarchy in their face not the package I would prefer instead of Ephesians 5: 24 now as the church submits to Christ so also wives should submit to their husbands and everything it's girl your masculine energy is so not hot you'll never get a boyfriend I guess what I'm trying to say with this video is that really harmful ideas can lurk within any religious system no matter how aesthetically pleasing or fun I love witchy stuff I have witchy stuff all over my apartment but whether you believe in Jesus the universe Loki or hotson and Miku the one thing we all have in common is that we can be super awful to to each other so don't let the pretty candles and crystals lull you into a false sense of security well I know some of my jokes probably ruffled a few feathers so if you're a subscriber of mine and you happen to also be a practicing witch if you wouldn't mind doing me a favor and taking a moment out of your day to put a little protection spell over me I'd really appreciate it oh [Music] no