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Top Comments of this video!! :3
As a mother, it’s infuriating that parents would subject their children to this abuse. Disgusting.
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I hope that delving into these cults isn't too damaging on the team's mental health. It's difficult seeing Joyce near tears so often this episode. Take care of yourselves!
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I grew up in a religious cult and feel so much for those who cannot escape them. For those who can and did escape them, I am so proud of you!
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This is so horrifying. And I had no idea how many celebrities were involved
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I love and respect this series so much because you guys actually talk to survivors and experts and have real opinions. I truly think this series will help other ppl who have been in these situations or maybe even currently are in a cult looking for a out so ty to whoever came up with this series I never miss one
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I’ve always loved Merle’s and Joyce’s contents, they make great hosts and content producers on buzzfeed. Probably watched all Merle’s vegan recipes and basically at this point, anything with Joyce in it. Really into the idea of them teaming up and carrying BUN with this series. But I have to give it to them specifically that their grounded personalities carry these difficult topics in a very safe way. They’re set up with the open mindedness with embracing survivors from the get go and watching them uncandidly empathizing with the people in the cults brings something I rarely see in other programs/videos about cults, especially ones in youtube. They tend to be just informative/detached, or sensationalize them, but Joyce and Merle make it feel as if you’re watching a thorough documentary with friends and you share this beautiful human moment with them hoping that people heal, and it’s probably a healing process you share with these friends too. I hope to see this series thrive as a new hit on BUN, especially with how victim and empathy focused they are.
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I think that it's incredible how you can joke around and laugh but still be respectfull and somber towards the victims and survivors of cults. It's truly comendable, you two are doing an amazing job. Creating awareness of how cult leaders bait people and how easy it is to accidentaly or intentionaly end up in one.
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One of the most disturbing cults that I’ve ever heard of! 😭
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13:47 when you realize that Ryan and Shane tried to contact River Phoenix in a previous Buzzfeed Unsolved episode - Hollywood Legends of the Viper Room. 😢
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Thanks for sharing your trauma with us. I hope you have found peace.
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Whenever you guys cry, I cry. I think we are all crying.
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It’s wild that BuzzFeed laid off Merle and will still air this. I really hope Joyce wasn’t laid off!
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Thank you for making this very informative piece. I joined the group when I was 16, and got out 21 years later. I think Faith hit the nail on the head when she said we sacrificed everything and came out with nothing. So true. Aside from having to deal with survival, which is a whole tale of its own, I also had this great hunger to learn after leaving. The sad part is that the Family has never paid for their crimes. By the way, the central leadership made a lot of money off of us. We lived in squallor. They lived like kings.
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Poor Ricky. Watch the tape he made before he went to murder that lady. My break just breaks for him.
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Speechless. Omg wow
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THE River Phoenix was part of this???? Wow… speechless. It makes sense why his life was so awful :(
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I was only still watching this channel because of Merle and Joyce but now that you've fired them, I'm unsubscribing after this series is over.
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merle and joyce r literal angels
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Was not expecting to hear river phoenix!
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@Laurilue13
1 year ago
In 2005, a new coworker of mine called in to the office and said she was going to be late due to a family crisis. I did not know her very well, but when she got to work around noon, she proceeded to break down and tell me why she had been late that day. Her partner had been best friends with Ricky Rodriguez. I had never heard of the Children of God in any great detail, though I was aware that River Phoenix’s family had been affiliated with some sort of upsetting cult in his childhood. My coworker proceeded to tell me in great detail of the contents of the video tape confession they had received that morning from Ricky Rodriguez. He had shot the video and then murdered his former nanny, as you mentioned earlier this video, then taking his own life. I believe she told me that he said that he was copying the tape and sending it to a few individuals and maybe the news. My coworker’s partner, utterly devastated, called the police, and they subsequently found Rodriguez and his victim. She was mortified to hear what he had endured in that video and couldn’t help but tell me about it in great detail, her tears bubbling over uncontrollably as I hugged her in the break room. Almost 20 years later, I have never been able to shake how eerie and horrific my small window into these events was that day. My heart still hurts for all the victims of this horrific cult.
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