Understanding The Violent Acts of Shoko Asahara And His Following: Aum Shinrikyo

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Classified by the US government as both a cult and terrorist organization, Shoko Asahara amassed a large global following. Merle and Joyce interview a clinical psychologist to unpack the terrifying rise and fall of Aum Shinrikyo.
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КОМЕНТАРІ: 125

@cummerchant542 Рік тому

Shane and Ryan carried this channel to the brink holy

@morningstar3741 Рік тому

This channel died when Shane and Ryan left, let’s face it 🤷‍♂️

@Starch-Wreck 11 місяців тому

Shane was an insufferable over actor trying to sound super cool non stop. Ryan was cool though.

@Notcrafted34 11 місяців тому

@@Starch-Wreckbut they did both carry this channel

@kaossplude2957 10 місяців тому

@@Starch-Wreck L opinion

@katzmanon 10 місяців тому

omfg it's been years, move on already.

@morningstar3741 10 місяців тому

@@katzmanon babe we’ve been broken up for 6 months stop commenting on my old posts. if anything you need to move on

@lindastansfield460 Рік тому

Thank you Ladies for doing your videos and the tough subjects, they include. Keep up the great reporting and inform the world of these horrors hidden in our world.

@arianacrissinger1533 Рік тому

I must say this was very interesting. I’ve never heard of this group before. Thank you for bringing it to attention. I’m going to dig further into it.

@Truecrimeresearcher224 Рік тому

I watched someone else talk about this guy. But you guys went into more details. This guy is even scarier and more dangerous than I originally thought

@Goleon Рік тому

Was it Akidearest?

@Truecrimeresearcher224 Рік тому

@@Goleon yes it was

@Goleon Рік тому

@@Truecrimeresearcher224 - Well keep in mind that Aki has to do her own research and it’s very limited as she doesn’t have the resources that these two can get.

@Checkz_over_Stripez Рік тому

Not much scarier than your profile picture!

@cameronpope8513 Рік тому

love this series!

@arcturionblade1077 Рік тому

I did a speech class on the Aum Shinrikyo cult years ago as I found their activities both fascinating and chilling. I've lived in the Tokyo area for the past seven years and always felt safe riding the subways. I couldn't imagine the pain and fear of the sarin gas attacks on that terrible day.

@deadchannel726 Рік тому

Finally yall uploaded been a while since you last uploaded

@erinvanlyssel Рік тому

It’s literally only been a week 🥴

@spagetmonster6880 Рік тому

I hope they do an episode on that cult out in Oklahoma that poisoned salad bars with salmonella. I've never heard much info about them and I'd like to learn about them

@animuse1632 Рік тому

Love this video! You two delved into incredible detail of the founder and the associated cult. I recommend reading Haruki Murakami’s book “Underground”, which demonstrates a variety of perspectives from ordinary folk to poignant people of power related to the cult. Though it can get very visceral, just reading this would help many understand how severe the gas attack was back in the day.

@Destiny-bt7oi Рік тому

Just heard the news about BuzzFeed, hope HuffPost picks you guys up ❤🌞😇👍

@labyrinthgirl17 Рік тому

I suggested this cult when it was asked if there were other cults that should be covered. I still find it interesting that they're a vague reference in one of the Earthbound games as enemies (Happy Happyists).

@moonchester6854 Рік тому

buzzfeed unsolved feels different since shane and ryan

@TheSaneHatter Рік тому

Welcome back, ladies: I missed you last night (Friday), when I was really hoping to come home to another episode. It is, however, intriguing to see the show beginning to travel outside the US (whether culturally or physically) and become a multicultural, exploratory series.

@JR-yi3cz 11 місяців тому

@Buzzfeed Unsolved Mysteries, when's the next episode? It's been a month!

@travgames0113 Рік тому

Buzzfeed, do you have sources? I am doing a paper on Aum Shinrikyo and would like to reference this.

@SanskarWagley 10 місяців тому

Is Buzzfeed Video done? Most of the channels haven't uploaded in weeks or months

@cass1478 Рік тому

Damn 8 years?!? That’s so long for a trial!

@TaraTHESecretONE Рік тому

This is so awful, I worry that Asahara might have also used the socital idea that you need to conform with what is normal in his social circle. Though, based on what happens in other cults, it seems the "norms" around cult leaders is something most of them try to push on their followers. Yikes. Also, for the history buffs in here... It was due to the Aum Shinrikyo attack on the Tokyo Subway, a major transportation infratstructure, that multiple world governments had to consider that nonstate actors could get their hands on WMDs and harm a great number of people and critical infratstructures!

@sharonvk2000 9 місяців тому

What was that snake crawling through skull montage in the intro

@chrispoop Рік тому

OMFG I LOVE THIS CHANNEL. I DISCOVERED IT NOW AND THIS SCIENTIFIC BUT MYSTERIOUS APPROACH IS SOO COOL AND GOOD! OMFG THANKS GOD UKposts EXIST SOO PEOPLE LIKE YOUI CAN HAVE FUN WITH US! :D

@_Nanalae Рік тому

Miss these ladies.

@Zackaria_sMax 10 місяців тому

2:48 HOW are you Out of Breath at the Beginning of a sentence?!

@Khous-yg1ur Рік тому

I love "I like to watch" and I have never laughed harder until this episode.... omg, it was absolutely Trixie and Katya on their A Game. I freaking love it!

@azanmanwar Рік тому

What?

@TheSpacenoodles Рік тому

I Hope you can do an episode about Korea

@mary.a5898 Рік тому

I hope your next episode will be about Khamenei

@andrewdeen1 5 місяців тому

this is cool.. this story really deserves the prestige wild wild country-style 6 episode series on HBO so bad

@tatianaazcarate28 Рік тому

Oh wow

@lyndiwilson2334 Рік тому

I'm still requesting you guys do scientology, altho I understand why you wouldn't want to because of how they respond

@tylerhowerton8518 Рік тому

Hello do you guy’s have a email address ? About a case here in northern Virginia. The parents go out every day to change the days the son has been missing and it’s been 12 years of them changing days with a large sign at the end of the driveway asking for information 😢

@SnuggieMaple 7 місяців тому

How didn’t they notice that people that were against this group kept dying and being attacked?

@user-ss9ri8lb5t Рік тому

can you cover the story of jawaher haji

@snitsnot Рік тому

The way the picture for the video is it looks like the lady is the dude without a beard

@silentsigher Рік тому

Crazy that are still a thing

@jeanclaude2794 Рік тому

this channel really went down hill huh...

@khumokgosimatlhomane2840 Рік тому

There's no debate about death penalty, you take a life intentionally, your's is taken as a punishment 👊🏾

@robertafierro5592 Рік тому

I like these two young ladies! How nice too see two best friends work so cohesively.

@billygeene Рік тому

I appreciate that it seems like their outfits have become a bit more respectful of the stories being told. I hope that doesn't sound too backhanded. 😅

@TheSaneHatter Рік тому

Merle and Joyce will have to speak for themselves on this issue (if they wish), but I understand your intended point. Issues of personal expression, respect for the issues being covered, and how to tastefully address a person's attractiveness are not simple in this day and age, and they are often wildly at odds with each other. Thus changes are clearly being made as the show evolves.

@billygeene Рік тому

@@TheSaneHatter yes agreed, its a very fine tightrope.

@Stopcommentingthesamecomments 11 місяців тому

Ryan and Shane yall are not the slow painful death of buzzfeed is my fuel

@Checkz_over_Stripez Рік тому

World needs more people like this

@jasonvaquero9739 Рік тому

Not me thinking that was Bobby Lee in the thumbnail for a quick sec 💀😭

@forourspidey 8 місяців тому

3:21 FOLKLORE FONT??

@Mayochup191 10 місяців тому

Where’s Shane and Ryan

@kimmunro6441 10 місяців тому

Man the quality really has gone down since Shane and Ryan left. Atleast watchers is still good

@kimmunro6441 10 місяців тому

Even the likes to veiws ratio is horrible

@chaccotv7713 Рік тому

Sarin is only pronounced one way why are you both saying it different?

@TheSaneHatter Рік тому

"Better safe than Sarin," I suppose?

@AngelDustMyBel0ved Рік тому

Wdym "only pronounced one way" girl have you heard of accents? dialects?

@RandomVids519 Рік тому

BRA!

@user-rm6bo8cm9w 11 місяців тому

Please do princess Diana theory!!!

@SnuggieMaple 7 місяців тому

Paying for his body? Sounds like onlyfans

@sipioc Рік тому

So with you guys going out of business are you keeping the Unsolved videos here or are you gonna give them to Ryan and Shane?

@Abhisekhdutta Рік тому

Yoga is from Hinduism and not buddhism

@brandy9877 10 місяців тому

I need moe Ryan and Shane please I keep rewatching themmm, someone please has to be a way to get them back

@sonian6642 10 місяців тому

They have a new channel. Called the watcher

@brandy9877 10 місяців тому

@@sonian6642 ohhh alright

@JaronMartinez1 11 місяців тому

Still not rayan or Shane why they go bro

@sonian6642 10 місяців тому

New channel. The watcher

@dopaminedreams1122 10 місяців тому

Not diverse enough of course

@daviduezz Рік тому

did somebody say just eat

@kiwiikia 4 місяці тому

isn’t this copying anthony padilla ??

@unholybees Рік тому

Just wondering if its a thing to not dress up to go to interviews??

@TheSaneHatter Рік тому

Here, it may be: if you read the other comments, the hostesses have been accused by some viewers (not me, but it IS a topic) of overdoing it in previous epsiodes. So as I've said eslewhere, the show's approach is evolving.

@unholybees Рік тому

@TheSaneHatter over dressing for interview?? Weird but ok

@adriansteele7023 Рік тому

Bad sound design

@CaptiveEins Рік тому

Bra...

@SkoomaCat Рік тому

Yeah

@triatheraider1612 Рік тому

Rise and fall of buzzfeed😅

@dopaminedreams1122 10 місяців тому

It’s been falling forever, Ryan and Shane just helped it slow it’s descent for a while but now it’s back in free fall lmao

@89Awww 10 місяців тому

These hostesses are too flippant when they talk about mature subjects. Their humor is tone deaf and their discussions come off as very disrespectful to the victims and survivors of cults.

@Xd_Aceofants. Рік тому

This series is sooo...bad. buzzfeed unsolved is FINISHED...I don't want to sound offensive, but for some reason when guys run these shows, they are much more scary. It might have to do something with associating less fear with women, as compared to men

@kremits9360 Рік тому

Shane and Ryan are gone so the rest of you can probably stop now

@sleazykilla360 11 місяців тому

bro I just found this channel after like two years of forgetting about it, what happened to the original two guys Ryan and Shane? this new crew sucks!

@user-ff7zw4kp1r 11 місяців тому

They ended Buzzfeed Unsolved and started their own channel.

@chasingfelix3609 11 місяців тому

They do their own thing on their channel “Watcher”. You’ll be happy with the stuff they are doing!

@noahbrooks361 Рік тому

These try to be funny and it’s just not hitting but y’all do amazing at informing so I would say keep at it work on those punchlines tho

@mylespop Рік тому

Unsolved should go back to Shane and Ryan or go extinct, these new hosts are affirming hires and it downgrades what was great viewing

@Braham_the_Terror Рік тому

Who are you to decide any of it, lmfao?

@TheSaneHatter Рік тому

@@Braham_the_Terror He's just a troll, and not a very good one at that: bitching about Shane & Ryan is passe, now that Merel and Joyce have developed their own following, so he's behind the curve.

@dopaminedreams1122 10 місяців тому

@@TheSaneHatter lmao it’s sad enough to be a simp, but smiling for these ladies? Yikes your starving hard brother

@dopaminedreams1122 10 місяців тому

@@Braham_the_Terror they never decided a thing, it’s called an opinion, or sharing feedback, and just because you are butthurt doesn’t make it invalid, also your literally ratioed

@Mayochup191 10 місяців тому

It’s 2023 lib media only hired women now