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

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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  • @cummerchant542
    @cummerchant542 Жыл бұрын

    Shane and Ryan carried this channel to the brink holy

  • @morningstar3741
    @morningstar3741 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Starch-Wreck

    @Starch-Wreck

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Notcrafted34

    @Notcrafted34

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Starch-Wreckbut they did both carry this channel

  • @kaossplude2957

    @kaossplude2957

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Starch-Wreck L opinion

  • @katzmanon

    @katzmanon

    Жыл бұрын

    omfg it's been years, move on already.

  • @morningstar3741

    @morningstar3741

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Truecrimeresearcher224
    @Truecrimeresearcher224 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @Goleon

    Жыл бұрын

    Was it Akidearest?

  • @Truecrimeresearcher224

    @Truecrimeresearcher224

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Goleon yes it was

  • @Goleon

    @Goleon

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @Checkz_over_Stripez

    Жыл бұрын

    Not much scarier than your profile picture!

  • @arcturionblade1077
    @arcturionblade1077 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @lindastansfield460
    @lindastansfield460 Жыл бұрын

    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
    @arianacrissinger1533 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @spagetmonster6880
    @spagetmonster6880 Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @deadchannel726
    @deadchannel726 Жыл бұрын

    Finally yall uploaded been a while since you last uploaded

  • @erinvanlyssel

    @erinvanlyssel

    Жыл бұрын

    It’s literally only been a week 🥴

  • @JR-yi3cz
    @JR-yi3cz Жыл бұрын

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

  • @cameronpope8513
    @cameronpope8513 Жыл бұрын

    love this series!

  • @moonchester6854
    @moonchester6854 Жыл бұрын

    buzzfeed unsolved feels different since shane and ryan

  • @Destiny-bt7oi
    @Destiny-bt7oi Жыл бұрын

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

  • @SanskarWagley
    @SanskarWagley Жыл бұрын

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

  • @animuse1632
    @animuse1632 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @labyrinthgirl17
    @labyrinthgirl17 Жыл бұрын

    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).

  • @cass1478
    @cass1478 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @travgames0113
    @travgames0113 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @tonyc.0451
    @tonyc.045120 күн бұрын

    This is a late comment, but since Joyce mentioned anime at the start of the video, this episode could have briefly discussed the anime miniseries that was produced by the those who worshiped Asahara. One particular screenshot from said anime became an internet meme.

  • @Zackaria_sMax
    @Zackaria_sMax11 ай бұрын

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

  • @TheSaneHatter
    @TheSaneHatter Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @andrewdeen1
    @andrewdeen16 ай бұрын

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

  • @_Nanalae
    @_Nanalae Жыл бұрын

    Miss these ladies.

  • @TheSpacenoodles
    @TheSpacenoodles Жыл бұрын

    I Hope you can do an episode about Korea

  • @TaraTHESecretONE
    @TaraTHESecretONE Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @mary.a5898
    @mary.a5898 Жыл бұрын

    I hope your next episode will be about Khamenei

  • @sharonvk2000
    @sharonvk200010 ай бұрын

    What was that snake crawling through skull montage in the intro

  • @tatianaazcarate28
    @tatianaazcarate28 Жыл бұрын

    Oh wow

  • @snitsnot
    @snitsnot Жыл бұрын

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

  • @silentsigher
    @silentsigher Жыл бұрын

    Crazy that are still a thing

  • @Khous-yg1ur
    @Khous-yg1ur Жыл бұрын

    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

    @azanmanwar

    Жыл бұрын

    What?

  • @user-ss9ri8lb5t
    @user-ss9ri8lb5t Жыл бұрын

    can you cover the story of jawaher haji

  • @chrispoop
    @chrispoop Жыл бұрын

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

  • @tylerhowerton8518
    @tylerhowerton8518 Жыл бұрын

    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 😢

  • @lyndiwilson2334
    @lyndiwilson2334 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @jeanclaude2794
    @jeanclaude2794 Жыл бұрын

    this channel really went down hill huh...

  • @khumokgosimatlhomane2840
    @khumokgosimatlhomane2840 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Stopcommentingthesamecomments
    @Stopcommentingthesamecomments Жыл бұрын

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

  • @SnuggieMaple
    @SnuggieMaple8 ай бұрын

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

  • @robertafierro5592
    @robertafierro5592 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Checkz_over_Stripez
    @Checkz_over_Stripez Жыл бұрын

    World needs more people like this

  • @billygeene
    @billygeene Жыл бұрын

    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

    @TheSaneHatter

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @billygeene

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @jasonvaquero9739
    @jasonvaquero9739 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @chaccotv7713
    @chaccotv7713 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @TheSaneHatter

    @TheSaneHatter

    Жыл бұрын

    "Better safe than Sarin," I suppose?

  • @AngelDustMyBel0ved

    @AngelDustMyBel0ved

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @Mayochup191
    @Mayochup19111 ай бұрын

    Where’s Shane and Ryan

  • @forourspidey
    @forourspidey9 ай бұрын

    3:21 FOLKLORE FONT??

  • @kimmunro6441
    @kimmunro644111 ай бұрын

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

  • @kimmunro6441

    @kimmunro6441

    11 ай бұрын

    Even the likes to veiws ratio is horrible

  • @user-rm6bo8cm9w
    @user-rm6bo8cm9w Жыл бұрын

    Please do princess Diana theory!!!

  • @sipioc
    @sipioc Жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @RandomVids519
    @RandomVids519 Жыл бұрын

    BRA!

  • @brandy9877
    @brandy9877 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @sonian6642

    @sonian6642

    Жыл бұрын

    They have a new channel. Called the watcher

  • @brandy9877

    @brandy9877

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sonian6642 ohhh alright

  • @JaronMartinez1
    @JaronMartinez1 Жыл бұрын

    Still not rayan or Shane why they go bro

  • @sonian6642

    @sonian6642

    Жыл бұрын

    New channel. The watcher

  • @dopaminedreams1122

    @dopaminedreams1122

    11 ай бұрын

    Not diverse enough of course

  • @SnuggieMaple
    @SnuggieMaple8 ай бұрын

    Paying for his body? Sounds like onlyfans

  • @kremits9360
    @kremits9360 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @daviduezz
    @daviduezz Жыл бұрын

    did somebody say just eat

  • @Abhisekhdutta
    @Abhisekhdutta Жыл бұрын

    Yoga is from Hinduism and not buddhism

  • @unholybees
    @unholybees Жыл бұрын

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

  • @TheSaneHatter

    @TheSaneHatter

    Жыл бұрын

    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

    @unholybees

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@TheSaneHatter over dressing for interview?? Weird but ok

  • @kiwiikia
    @kiwiikia6 ай бұрын

    isn’t this copying anthony padilla ??

  • @CaptiveEins
    @CaptiveEins Жыл бұрын

    Bra...

  • @SkoomaCat

    @SkoomaCat

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah

  • @adriansteele7023
    @adriansteele7023 Жыл бұрын

    Bad sound design

  • @triatheraider1612
    @triatheraider1612 Жыл бұрын

    Rise and fall of buzzfeed😅

  • @dopaminedreams1122

    @dopaminedreams1122

    11 ай бұрын

    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
    @89Awww Жыл бұрын

    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.
    @Xd_Aceofants. Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @sleazykilla360
    @sleazykilla360 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @user-ff7zw4kp1r

    Жыл бұрын

    They ended Buzzfeed Unsolved and started their own channel.

  • @chasingfelix3609

    @chasingfelix3609

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @noahbrooks361
    @noahbrooks361 Жыл бұрын

    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
    @mylespop Жыл бұрын

    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

    @Braham_the_Terror

    Жыл бұрын

    Who are you to decide any of it, lmfao?

  • @TheSaneHatter

    @TheSaneHatter

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

    @dopaminedreams1122

    11 ай бұрын

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

  • @dopaminedreams1122

    @dopaminedreams1122

    11 ай бұрын

    @@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

    @Mayochup191

    11 ай бұрын

    It’s 2023 lib media only hired women now