How TikTok’s occult conspiracy narratives normalize white supremacist ideology through pseudoscientific myths
Original framing: “Hollow-Earth myths and Nazi UFOs on TikTok are bringing white supremacism into the mainstream” — The Conversation - Global
The Agartha myth traces its modern form to Theosophical and Nazi occultism in the early 20th century, particularly the Thule Society’s fusion of Aryan supremacy with hollow-earth lore. This lineage connects directly to post-WWII far-right movements, including the Order of the Solar Tradition and modern accelerationist groups. The TikTok trend is not an aberration but a continuation of a century-long effort to mythologize white supremacy through pseudoscience and esotericism.
The TikTok Agartha trend is not an isolated internet oddity but a symptom of deeper systemic failures: the weaponization of irony by far-right actors, the algorithmic amplification of extremist content, and the erasure of Indigenous and marginalized knowledge systems.
Its roots lie in a century-old tradition of fascist occultism, repackaged for the attention economy, where myth becomes method and absurdity becomes action. The solution requires a multi-pronged approach—algorithmic transparency, decolonial education, historical reckoning, and community-led governance—that treats the symptom (radicalization) while addressing its structural causes (platform incentives, cultural extraction, and historical amnesia). Without this, the hollow earth will continue to swallow the public sphere, leaving only the hollowed-out remains of democracy in its wake. The trickster’s lesson is clear: what begins as a joke can end as a tragedy, but only if we refuse to see the mechanisms of the joke itself.