About

Alien Cult refers to a TikTok cult in which users change their profile pictures to an image of a green alien and a green alien cat (often used in alienposting or Zeep Glorp memes), posting videos pretending to speak in a different language for the supposed extraterrestrial cult. Users also tend to follow each other and raid comment sections or livestreams of other TikTokers speaking in their made-up language, as well as trying to get an invite for an alien cult group call. Memes about the Alien Cult started in early September 2024 and grew over the following weeks, similar to the Vegeta Cult and Hamster Cult precursors.

Origin

On August 12th, 2006, YouTube^[1] user @k9oggy posted a video titled "Funny alien meme for your mobile phone." The video showed a low-resolution animation of a green alien greeting humans (seen below), and it amassed over 787,000 views and 29,000 likes in 18 years.

In early September 2024, the green alien meme was then used in a series of jokes about an "Alien Cult" on TikTok. The earliest known example was uploaded by TikTok user @.green_guy^[2] on September 1st, 2024, featuring a montage of the green cat alien destroying Earth (seen below), which amassed more than 4 million plays and 695,000 likes in four days.

Spread

In the course of a week in early September 2024, more memes and parodies related to the alien cult spawned on TikTok as many users changed their profile pictures to alien-like images and started to spam the comment section of random videos pretending to be part of the cult.

For example, on September 4th, 2024, TikTok^[3] user @zilon_void posted a screen recording of several "alien cult" livestreams on TikTok in which several users were pretending to speak in alien language to each other (seen below). The video amassed roughly 2,400 plays and 18 likes in a day.

On September 3rd, 2024, TikTok^[4] user @faboulaspastel2 posted a montage video of a fake message sent by the green cat alien, asking his followers to stay at home and not go to school. The video (seen below) received over 7 million plays and 1 million likes in two days.

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