QAA Podcast - The YouTube Blood Magic Cult (Premium E286) Sample

Episode Date: April 22, 2025

Some believe that they can make a better world just by posting enough online. But the YouTube-based Blood Over Intent community raises the stakes by literally bleeding for their beliefs. Born from the trauma of Mark Braun, a Florida plumber turned self-styled Satan incarnate, Blood Over Intent promises followers a ticket to paradise, provided they upload a DIY blood ritual to the web. The kicker? Members claim that smearing a drop of their blood on hastily scrawled intentions will unlock a mythical Arctic portal to Eden underneath the flat earth. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/QAA /// Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe, Nick Sena, Jake Rockatansky. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast. /// REFERENCES The Blood Ritual That Lives on YouTube https://gizmodo.com/the-blood-ritual-that-lives-on-youtube-1826054103 The Sun Dance – Wiwáŋyaŋg Wačípi https://aktalakota.stjo.org/seven-sacred-rites/wiwanyang-wachipi-sun-dance/ Teen Accused of Stabbing Student to Death Was Into Online Blood Rituals and Conspiracies https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjp3px/teen-accused-of-stabbing-student-to-death-was-into-online-blood-rituals-and-conspiracies Satanic Flat Earthers https://mctoon.net/satanic-flat-earthers/ Today on "Classic Depravities of the Internet": Blood over Intent https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicDepravities/comments/yfs9gu/today_on_classic_depravities_of_the_internet/

Thank you. If you're hearing this, well done, you found a way to connect to the internet. Welcome to the QAA podcast, Premium Episode 286, the YouTube Blood Magic Cult. As always, we are your host, Jake Rockatansky, Julian Field, and Travis View. Click around for long enough on YouTube, and you could find yourself in any number of strange insular communities. You know, most of them are fun and harmless and provide a way for like-minded people around the world to come together, around mutual projects and passions, but occasionally you might bump into something disturbing.

You might, for example, encounter a series of videos uploaded by people who have recorded themselves reciting a strange oath in front of a piece of paper with writing and red splotches on it. I intend to bring forth heaven on earth. These videos don't have a lot of views. Some only have like 20 or 30, but there are so many of them,

thousands of short videos stretching back over a decade. I love that Travis is faking that he's trying to do something innocent on the internet. He's like, listen, I was just strolling through a well-to-do neighborhood. And, well, there was a door open. The house looked a little bit beat up, but I wandered through. No, so if you're like a normal person and not a professional internet weirdo researcher, this might hypothetically happen to you, not me. I sneak it out deliberately.

I'm sort of sympathizing with how a normal person might use you to. Yeah, this could be like what's next after you scroll version. vertically up from a like call of duty prop hunt video yeah if you're a listener you've long ago turned into the the wrong alleyway you've long ago made the bad mistake you know you're already you're in the bad neighborhood yeah you live you live here enjoy hi jack gunsenhauser intend to bring forth heaven on earth for a second it sounds like he's like i jacked off on this bible that could easily be blood. That's the smeared red splotches on the, like, underneath the black ink. What's going on here? Not good. Now, sometimes the oath spoken in the video is longer and more

elaborate. You begin to wonder, are those red splotches actually blood? See, you called it. I was definitely wondering it. I intend to bring forth heaven on earth. Release us all from bondage. Get us all eternal life. Forgiveness for our filthy souls and passage into the Garden of Eden. Okay, this looks like he smeared like a Saturn-type planet in blood. Many of these videos include comments by others who proclaim that a video is witnessed, whatever that means. And then you confirm your suspicions when you come across yet another video. In this one, the speaker is smearing their actively bleeding finger across the paper. At least it's the finger, I guess.

Tend to bring forth Heaven on earth To release our living souls from bondage He's squeezing her finger So that like the blood pools And then like smearing it I don't like blood I'm gonna go ahead and say it right now

I don't like blood These fucking videos are so creepy Oh you're gonna hate this episode then Okay great I'm a little bit squeamish too But I don't think as much as Julian You notice that the people Doing this ritual have a lot of admiration

for someone named Mark Braun, aka quasi-luminous. Okay. Go on YouTube right now. Type in quasi-luminous and Mr. Satan. It's the same dude. His name is Mark Braun, and I know him. I've talked to him.

He's a fucking amazing person. Go look him up. Right fucking now. Jesus fucking Christ, man. You really don't expect him to be, like, positive about it. Yeah. Same guy.

His name's fucking miss. Mr. Satan. And let me tell you, upstanding citizen, one of the best. Yeah, I thought for sure he was going to be like, this guy ripped me off four ways from Friday. This guy tried to kill my family members. You do as instructed, you look him up. And to your bafflement, the man that all these people are praising posts videos of these angry, incomprehensible vulgar rants. And it's not me?

No, you bleed less. It doesn't matter what you believe. I'm standing here as the devil himself on gallons of my own blood published for the universe to see that I'm gonna bring forth heaven and earth and release your motherfucking ass from bondage get you passage into the garden of Eden and eternal life

you will join me publicly in blood on the YouTube or you will expire nobody escapes me not even your filthy gods it's clear who holds the spear of destiny the angel of death is going to find you, motherfucker. It doesn't matter what you believe. You will join me in blood publicly or die.

Join me in blood publicly on the YouTube. Yeah. Is, I mean, I think we have a new t-shirt. Also, the video is just like, it's a still image of like a clip art finger pointing to writing that just says public notice. Yeah. You have just stumbled on one of the strangest internet cults, blood over intent. Okay. The community was sparked in 2013 by one man, a plumber from Florida, who claims to be Satan incarnate.

Oh, yeah. I mean, ask his clients. But it grew into something beyond him, a loose online group obsessed with blood, death, the apocalypse, and ritual magic. It's like thelemic rituals for Florida plumbers. Yeah. This is a great combo. It would be easy to dismiss blood over intent as yet another, like, passing internet curiosity. were it not for two factors.

Firstly, it's persistence. Blood over intent started in 2013, and despite YouTube's occasional crackdown on this content, you can still see new videos of people performing this blood ritual in 2025. And secondly, its consequences. A blood over intent believer committed a stabbing murder in 2021, and one prominent influencer attempted to make a physical compound in Oregon. Wow, they are like speed running into like the end game of running

a cult. Honestly, this kind of, I wonder if this would help with purpose in life. You know, I'm kind of thinking of joining. I recommend just you join. None of our listeners, not of our beloved listeners, but you, Julia, you should give it a try. But for somebody who gets squeamish at blood, I don't know if this is the right compound or cult for you. That depends. I have to kind of check if I'm Satan incarnate or not. Well, I don't think this guy is going to want any competition. Well, I'll just change the word slightly. Blood over intent members think we live in a simulation, a kind of hell prison ruled by lies, and that the only way out is to spill your own blood in public, seal it with a vow, and upload it to YouTube for the universe to see.

They call it a proof of life. They say it's the key to entering the book of life to escaping this fallen world and ushering in heaven on earth. It's not just a story about a cult. It's a story about belief, loneliness, spiritual hunger, and the links people will go to feel seen, even if that means bleeding on a piece of paper. and posting online for strangers to witness. This was just the result of a UGC campaign by Band-Aid.

I just imagine like it's so funny to me to think about somebody like hitting the upload button onto YouTube and then all of a sudden they'd have like the camera change like in severance behind. You know what I mean? Like their world just shifts like a little bit as soon as they've uploaded the video. The first blood over intent video appeared online on Christmas Eve in 2013. It features Mark Braun, aka quasi-luminous, seated at a kitchen table. and what looks like a modest home somewhere in Florida. A piece of paper lies in front of him, written on it.

I intend to bring forth heaven on earth for the benefit of all. He pricks his finger, smears a line of blood across the page, and declares that he is sealing this oath in blood. Now, despite my best efforts, I couldn't find a surviving copy of that original video online. Mark Broad is very bad at adhering to terms of service of social media sites. But something about that original video caught people's attention. It was strange, it was transgressive, and it was replicable, and people did replicate it. In the months that followed, more videos appeared, people in living rooms, garages, backyards,

reciting bronze words, pricking their fingers, uploading the rituals to YouTube. Some were solemn, others were ecstatic, a few were clearly disturbed, and by 2018, there were tens of thousands of blood-over-intent videos floating on the platform. But who is this man, and why is he doing this? Braun's day job is in the home trades. He has worked as a plumber, electrician, and air conditioning technician in Coral Springs, Florida.

He occasionally has uploaded videos of himself at job sites. He has uploaded videos with titles like Plumbing for Service Calls alongside videos like, Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell. You've been listening to a sample of a premium episode of the QAA podcast. For access to the full episode, as well as all past premium episodes

and all of our podcast miniseries, go to patreon.com slash QAA, Travis, why is that such a good deal? Well, Jake, you get hundreds of additional episodes of the QAA podcast for just $5 per month. For that very low price, you get access to over 200 premium episodes plus all of our miniseries. That includes 10 episodes of Man Clan with Julian and Annie, 10 episodes of Pervers with Julian and Liv, 10 episodes of the Spectral Voyager with Jake and Brad, plus 20 episodes of Trickle Down with me, Travis View. It's a bounty of content and the best deal in podcasting. Travis, for once, I agree with you.

And I also agree that people could subscribe by going to patreon.com slash QAA. Well, that's not an opinion. It's a fact. You're so right, Jake. We love and appreciate all of our listeners. Yes, we do. And Travis is actually crying right now, I think, out of gratitude maybe? That's not true. The part about be crying.

Not me being grateful. I'm very grateful. Thank you.