Director: Derek Doneen
A dance company built for TikTok fame and a church operating alongside it turned out to be the same organization. "Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult" (2024) follows the dancers who joined, and the families who tried to get them back.
What is Dancing For The Devil The 7M Tiktok Cult about?
The mini-series opens with the promise young performers were sold: professional choreography, viral exposure, a management team ready to turn short-form video followings into real careers. It then tracks what happened once that management company and its associated congregation began asking for more — control over communication, finances and personal relationships. Told largely through the accounts of former members, their relatives and outside observers, the series lays out a pattern of isolation and pressure that built gradually rather than all at once, and follows the point at which some performers began to speak publicly about what they say they experienced inside the group.
Cast & crew
Melanie Wilking and Victoria Paige Watkins, both dancers connected to the company at the center of the story, appear alongside Kylie Douglas, offering perspectives from both inside the group and from the family members watching from outside it.
Context & significance
Directed by Derek Doneen, the series arrived in 2024 amid a broader wave of documentaries examining how social-media fame gets packaged and monetized, and how that packaging can shade into more coercive forms of control when performers' livelihoods and personal lives become tied to a single organization. It builds its case largely through firsthand testimony rather than narration, letting the people who lived through the events describe the shift from opportunity to pressure in their own words.
Where & how to watch
"Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult" streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, on a platform built with a Farsi interface for Persian-speaking audiences abroad. Watching requires a free account login; reading this page does not.