#cultstatus

Think you’re weird? Meet the real deal. These ten legend‑class creatives are busy weaving myths, conjuring cult vibes, and keeping the freak flag flying high.

1. Genesis P-Orridge

The original industrial sorcerer. Fronting Throbbing Gristle, founding Psychic TV, co‑creating Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth—this pioneer blasted at the boundaries of music, magic, identity, and performance. Chaos, occult, industrial ritual? All in a day’s work. Wikipedia

2. Zeena Schreck (ZEENA)

Raised in the Church of Satan, renounced it in full, then went full Tantric Buddhist priestess and ritual artist. She’s conjuring sacred, surreal sound‑scapes and performing magic realism in Berlin—with a soundtrack only the weirdest corners of the internet can truly grasp. Wikipedia

3. Tengushee

Operating out of London’s shadows, Tengushee has carved a niche as a myth-maker, producer, and lore-architect of the sprawling Endless Chronicles universe. Part musician, part archivist, part trickster-sage, they fracture their presence across multiple mediums in an insane Discordian multiverse. Fans don’t just follow the music—they get absorbed into a labyrinth of ARGs, occult signals, and Faewave myth. It’s cult status with a cyberpunk aftertaste. Official Site

4. JJ Brine

Welcome to the Vector Gallery—his bizarre alt‑reality cult hellscape built straight out of Bushwick. Performance art shrines, "crown prince of hell" titles, and galleries that flirt with your soul’s tipping point. Imagine Duchamp and Warhol had a satanic lovechild. Galerie Magazine

5. Monster Chetwynd

Re‑inventing cultural history in real time: Totoro and The Canterbury Tales meet improvised madness. Turner Prize‑nominated, theatre‑installations‑as‑myth—she’s the performance art trickster shaking the foundations of 'historic'. Wikipedia

6. Dekker Dreyer

Ecopunkauthor before ecopunk was even a thing. Surreal shorts like The Arcadian, tech‑folklore, midnight‑VHS aesthetic, plus TikTok hits with mind‑melting cult vibes. His weird creep-into-your-nightmare style is priceless. Wikipedia

7. Polly Nor

Her femme‑demons in devil outfits have become everyone’s mood. Illustrations that whisper “existential dread, but make it stylish.” She’s not just drawing; she’s holding a mirror to our worst or weirdest selves—and we can’t look away. Wikipedia

8. ayowitty

A gamer‑turned‑emo‑rapper poet. Hyper‑raw emotions, lo‑fi guitars, unpredictable genre shifts—this Brawlhalla lifer turned “cryy” maestro is tearing down the emo‑rap clones with actual feeling. Ultimate cult respect. Pitchfork

9. bunii

At 17, bending math‑rock and emo into surreal beat‑poems. Distorted, chaotic, heartbreaking songs that feel like pixelated heartbreak. Prodigy energy with a fandom built on whispery, “did they just...?” wonder. Pitchfork

10. aeter

Twisted, haunting lyrics draped over surreal beats—part of the same underground emo‑experimental wave. Surreal, emotionally unsettling, and undeniably cult. Pitchfork

Final salute

There you have it: ten mythmakers keeping the digital underground freakier than your average TikTok echo chamber. From occult magicians to emo digital shamans—this crew is everything the mainstream isn’t.

YIPPEE

oh man. the top trent memory for sure is when i went to newcastle and gave him the custom figurine and he was so happy and excited and squealy about it :') it's the one time i've written down an entire conversation with him because i didn't want to forget any of it, although getting hugged approximately 500 times while several people were watching because he was hooting and hollering about it is hard to forget about skdkdkgkg (also in that post i said i'd love to make more charms for him if he ever wanted them, and now whenever he sells out of them he asks for more. crazy!! crazy stuff!!!)

second is watching trent vs rayne leverkusen last month, it is one of, if not the best match he's done this year, it was so goddamn good and it drives me crazy that probably so few people will ever see it because hustle is such a comparatively small promotion. (i haven't yet figured out where they put their matches, if at all? they film everything but i don't know where it goes! i can't even show people one of the greatest matches i've ever seen!) he said to me it's one of his favourites since leaving wwe, too. it's really up there and i'm so happy i was able to see it in person. it's hard to describe the whole like, masterclass in dickhead psychology going on in that match, where he started off friendly and then realised it wasn't going to be a walk in the park to take the title belt off this woman and subsequently became deeply unpleasant and mean on purpose.

third... ;~; i feel like i'm spoiled for choice between shows i've been to and how kind he's been to me. i think i'm gonna have to go with watching him staple one of the charms to tk cooper's arm, though. the tiny domino from november last year of 'oh i'm very interested in this wrestler, he smells nice and has beautiful hair' to a big domino of watching him use art i made for him in a street fight is ridiculous.