In this episode of Based Camp, Malcolm and Simone Collins dive deep into the disturbing world of the 764 Group—a cult that originated on Minecraft and Roblox, targeting vulnerable youth through online platforms. They discuss the shocking tactics used by the group, the psychological and societal factors that make children susceptible, and the broader implications for parents and communities. The conversation also explores the intersection of online radicalization, sexuality, and the importance of open dialogue with kids.

Episode Transcript:

Malcolm Collins: Hello Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today. Today we are going to be talking about a Satanic cult that was started on Minecraft by a 15-year-old on

Simone Collins: Minecraft.

Malcolm Collins: Yeah. Well, yeah, it grew early on Minecraft and Roblox.

And people can hear about this and they can be like, how bad can it be? Specifically, we’re gonna be going over these 7 6 4 group, which is linked to other groups in the Calm network, like the No Lives Matter movement, the Manic Murder Cult, the Sadistic Manic Cult, the Satanic Front oh goodie and the Mordoff Division.

But anyway. So you might be hearing this and being like, how bad, how bad can this really be? It’s a bunch of children. So I’ll read from an article in Wired and then we’ll get to the article itself, but this is just sort of. Preview of the type of shenanigans they get up to. Okay. Cardin head and other members of this [00:01:00] group would lure young women into video chats and extort them into cutting themselves performing live what’s the word here?

I, I should use actual acts or harming themselves. Eve a girl from the Midwest. When she was younger her, her mother recounted her daughter being drawn into the exploitation network through Gore servers on Discord. Where I’m gonna, just going forwards in this, whenever I’m talking about people who are, below certain age ranges, we’re just gonna use the word chicken instead. Okay. Okay, that sounds good. The word chicken instead. Okay. I think I can handle that. Okay. Where chickens would watch ultra violent content what 7, 6 4 would do is they would go in and drop videos in these groups and try to start pulling kids out of it and into that server.

Before I go further this is actually really interesting before we get into what happened to this girl is, is how they did it. So they take gore and other extreme content. Okay. And they do bit into [00:02:00] things like Minecraft or Roblox or Children’s discord servers.

Simone Collins: Oh. So like Elsa Gate, but on steroids and way worse.

Malcolm Collins: Yeah, because it’s very intentional. Well, it’s different than that because with Elsa Gate it’s like, oh, this stuff is doing well with kids or anything like that. This is more like if you’re at that edgy phase of like being young, you know, like let’s say you’re like 10 or 11 or something like that.

Yeah. And you’re like, oh, I’m not allowed to talk about this sort of stuff. Mm-hmm. You know, somebody dumps it and you’re like, oh, this is where the edgy cool kids are. Let’s go to their town. Like, let’s go to their server.

Mm-hmm.

So the moderator of 7 6 4 server who went by Brad, one of the aliases connected to Caden head, quote unquote groomed her daughter through false shows of affection and convincing them to send unclosed photographs.

Once they established a degree of trust, Caden and the Exhorters threatened to harm her elementary school aged brother. Or release the explicit photographs on video calls. They would urge her to unli herself and convince her to carve [00:03:00] usernames of members of the server into her skin.

Oh my gosh.

They talk later in the piece that I think like half a decade or a decade later, she still has some of these scars. Oh oh, this is screwed up. They pressured her to strangle her cat and even behead her hamster on camera. Wait, and she

Simone Collins: did it.

Malcolm Collins: Yes, but biting its head off. They said, bite the head off or I’ll f up your whole life.

Oh a username. Felix told Eve on video. Oh. During the police investigation, Felix was an alias associated with the IP address linked to Caden head. Eve did all of this from her bedroom closet. Things took a turn for the worse when she cut herself too deeply one night in the bathtub and turned the waters red, like one of her exhorters had requested.

They also swatted the family’s house and began calling her school and telling the principal she tried to murder animals, prompting school officials to file a report to the police. You just don’t realize how quickly it can happen. Eve’s mother [00:04:00] said, according to her mother, FBI did not reach out to Eve until December, 2023.

The Stevensville Police Department was not aware of Eve’s victimization by Camden Head, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Until two years after his arrest Eve’s mother said, FBI Agents contacted her the following months and asked for details, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Sorry, I, I, I skip ahead a lot when I’m reading pieces for stuff you guys don’t care about.

An interview with Canon had gave the probation SER services, confirmed the general details of E story. Bradley did admit to the group’s use of the servers to do that sort of extortion on individuals. That thread said they would do this for money and sometimes just for power over individuals. Oh my

gosh.

And Caden had himself admitted, urging users of the server to carve his initials into their bodies as a form of ho homage, and described his servers as a cult and himself as a venerated leader. Last spring, this guy Caden had, who we’ll get to later, 18 years old, 15 when he started the group, was sentenced to jail for 80 [00:05:00] years.

Simone Collins: Well, okay. At least there was that was Well,

Malcolm Collins: no, no, no, no, no. There’s, there’s unfortunately many other individuals in, in, in this group, they we’re gonna be going over a series of the arrests, but you typically don’t know of what they’ve done until after they’ve been arrested.

Simone Collins: I can’t believe So we’re actually talking about this because I heard Catherine d mention it on a blocked and reported episode this morning.

Like I’d never heard of it before and I can’t believe I’ve never heard of it. ‘cause this is so. Grizzly and horrible, and it’s something to which so many of our kids are vulnerable. One thing that’s getting a lot of coverage recently is porta potty pot parties in Dubai. Have you heard of them?

Malcolm Collins: No. Tell me.

Oh, yeah. Well, they take women or whatever to, to explain.

Simone Collins: Well, no, basically, so yeah, like really, really wealthy men in Dubai offer to pay like Instagram models and influencers who are really, you know, like. Attractive women between, you know, tens of thousands to even over a hundred thousand dollars to come out to these really debauched parties where they make them like eat poop and urinate [00:06:00] in their mouths and things like that.

Right? Yeah. But like these are adult women who are making really bad judgements and you know, they’re signing NDAs and they’re making a lot of money from it. And now there are cases of women unliving themselves after this. Or even potentially being, having their lives non consensually ended if they like, refuse to comply during the parties. Like, I’m not saying these don’t go wrong, but this is like women getting themselves into it. Right? It then, but then, then they’re getting a lot of coverage. The fact that this is happening. To young children whose parents think that they’re just having fun on Roblox.

No,

Malcolm Collins: but I, I think that that actually undersells the scope of this. Yeah. If you look at this, there are as many, if not more people in the young perpetrator category. Yeah. I’m talking. You know, around the age of like, let’s say 15 to like 17. Right. Then there are in the victim category. So when you think about your kids and how they get sucked into this mm-hmm.

You [00:07:00] shouldn’t just be thinking about your kids as potential victims. Right. But as potential perpetrators.

Simone Collins: Yeah. And like, again, like there are only so many rich men in Dubai. I mean, there’s a lot Right. That are, that have like, you know, really, really, yeah. Fetishes that they wanna act on and are willing to do it.

Like, but like there, there’s an endless number of screwed up. Adolescents and the fact that, well,

Malcolm Collins: I think all adolescents are intrinsically screwed up.

Simone Collins: Yeah. But now there’s this, this pipeline to like incredibly evil acts.

Malcolm Collins: Well, yeah. But I think the pipeline is actually in a way created by the parents.

And we’ll get to that. A another thing I note here, if you’re like, how is this stuff done at scale in the way it’s, it’s happening. Okay. It is, so later on the, the piece goes, the abuse was systemic and even codified in writing. A user was the alias, convict, circulated. A how-to guide for grooming potential victims that identifies chickens with mental disorders and illnesses as the most susceptible to manipulation.

Oh, of course, the

detailed instructions document how to Fein affection and draw victims into influence. Oh, and then turn attention into [00:08:00] negative enforcement in so self-doubt. In order to bring the person to the edge of a quote unquote borderline episode, the Guide reads quote, when they ...

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