Inside Carbon Nation: Hulu Explores Modern Cult Dynamics in New Docuseries Focusing on NatureBoy

Hulu has announced a new docuseries chronicling the cult-like following of social media star NatureBoy.

What's Happening:

• In 2016, rising social media figure Eligio Bishop, also known as “NatureBoy,” began recruiting followers online to join his group, Carbon Nation – encouraging followers to abandon their families in pursuit of his vision of a self-proclaimed Black utopia.
• What started as an alternative lifestyle community quickly evolved into a far more sinister operation.
• The four-part docuseries The Cult of NatureBoy provides a rare, unfiltered look inside a modern cult operating in plain sight, featuring firsthand testimony from former members and victims, along with insights from online investigators who tracked the group in real time.
• Using extensive footage captured by the group, the docuseries charts Carbon Nation’s transformation into a tightly controlled environment, as the group became marked by coercion, manipulation and escalating violence as Bishop’s influence grew.
• As former members came forward with allegations of abuse, Bishop became central to one of the most shocking and complex cult cases in recent U.S. history.
• The Cult of NatureBoy begins streaming Tuesday, April 28 on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.

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