The Cult of NatureBoy (2026)
In 2016, a rising social media star named Eligio Bishop, also known as “NatureBoy,” used his platforms to recruit followers into a group he called Carbon Nation, encouraging them to abandon their families and join his vision of a self-proclaimed Black utopia. What began as an alternative lifestyle community quickly evolved into something far more sinister.
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While I didn't feel this series was particularly groundbreaking (another cult doing cult stuff), this is the first docuseries about a cult I've seen that affected (mostly) the Black community. I appreciate this series being made for awareness and representation, sometimes we think we'd never get tangled up in a cult but the reality is gurus can inject themselves into any community (not just lost, hippie white people), especially when there is tremendous suffering going on in the world. We all want to believe in something bigger than us, as was with these individuals. We think our own communities are hypervigilant enough, like when people state they would have left at the first sign of trouble when watching a scary movie or seeing someone else's situation on social media, but it's much more complicated when it's happening to you. I think many of us have this notion cults are something tha…
