The Cat-Eating Cult on TikTok

The Garden is a remote compound in Layfette, Tennessee

Christopher Kokoski

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Images of TikTokers associated with The Garden community from Insider.com for my article on The Cat-Eating Cult on TikTok
From left to right: Amillianze Livingston, TreeisAlive, and Rel Gumson on their TikTok accounts. TikTok/amillandbritt/treeisalive/rocknrelmusic — Source

There is a cult on TikTok that eats cats.

The group is known as The Garden, and it’s blown up on social media. It’s all over TikTok and YouTube. There’s even reputedly a Netflix or Vice documentary being filmed.

While members of The Garden repeatedly deny that it is a cult, some travelers who have visited the compound have warned people of the community’s extreme views including genocide, racism, animal cruelty, and complete lack of security protocols.

More than one person claims that The Garden is surrounded by so-called “sundown towns,” which means towns deemed unsafe for people of color, LGBTQ+, and other minorities after dark.

In this article, I want to explore this dangerous, cat-eating cult on TikTok.

The Garden

Patrick Martion started The Garden back in 2009 under the group’s original name, Shut Up and Grow It, an outgrowth of the rainbow gathering movement.

It doesn’t take a genius to see why they rebranded themselves into the much friendlier, utopia-sounding name reminiscent of the Biblical Garden of Eden.

Believe it or not, The Garden has its own website. This is how they describe…

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