344: New Cult in California?! Vegan Hipsters Start Their Own Murdering Cult?! | The Zizian Group
episodePreviously titled “344: Vegan Hipsters Start Their Own Murdering Cult?! | The Zizian Group” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 3, 2026
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What is the story behind the Zizians cult?
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Ziz and some of his alleged followers staged a protest, standing up for their beliefs, and the story gets progressively more violent. They showed up there in all black robes and thigh fox masks with a school bus. The questions, how did the group start, and how did they get here? Who's behind this latest trail of terror?
Hey, true crime besties. Welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly.
Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all-new episode of Serialistly. With me, Annie Elise, your true crime bestie, here to take you on another rollercoaster of a case because, let me just tell you, today's case is wild. But before we get into all of that, hoping you are having a good start to your week. Hope you had a fantastic weekend, whether you're driving, whether you're at home, just chilling, whether you're cleaning, wherever it is you're at, I hope that you're just mentally ready. I hope that you're in a state of, I don't want to say zen, but maybe zen, maybe zen, just ready to hear the unthinkable and ready to go on this truly twisted roller coaster with me today. Because to say that today's case is a weird one
is like the understatement of the universe. It is a case that is filled with everything. I'm talking about an online cult, dead bodies, bizarre beliefs, a true obsession over AI, disappearances, fake disappearances, fake identities, and somehow, in the mix of all of that, as if that wasn't odd enough... throw in some Harry Potter fan fiction for a little added sprinkle into it. I mean, it's really wild, but to really understand how this entire insane case unfolded, we've got to go back and start with where a lot of bizarre things really start in today's day and age, and that is the deep, dark corners of the internet. Now, in this particular case, it was a handful of people who got really, really into specific blog posts about philosophical stuff.
You know, people's values, how human beings think, the power of computers, things like that. And they really started bonding together over these blog posts. And they believed in this way of thinking that basically rejected human emotions and it relied on logic for everything. And it was like these very like techie, techie type of people, kind of like, you know, a little bit of nerd alert stuff, if I'm being totally honest with you. But pretty much it's kind of like the type of content where maybe you or I would see it and we'd be like, wow, that's really intense. Scroll past that, want to get to my mom talk video or want to get to some prank on TikTok, things like that, where we don't really think too many people like dive into it and just become immersed in it.
However, some people who ended up reading these posts didn't just move on like I would or maybe even you would have. But instead, they started taking what they were consuming very, very seriously. And then, over time, this group of mostly online strangers, they started seeing themselves as the only ones who could truly understand how broken the world is. And they thought that they were the only ones who could fix it. So with that, it led them to some very dark places, and it ended with six different deaths across multiple states. So buckle up, because this is the story of how a bunch of online philosophers turned into one of the strangest, one of the deadliest, and one of the most vegan cults that you've probably ever heard of.
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