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Underground

Underground

By: Inception Point Ai
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 Underground explores the secret desires, behaviors, and subcultures people keep hidden from mainstream society. Episode one examines modern drug use, from Silicon Valley engineers microdosing psychedelics for productivity to recreational substance users hiding their consumption from employers and families. Episode two investigates digital taboo, exploring anonymous Reddit communities and Discord servers where people explore interests too stigmatized to reveal offline—from reborn doll collectors to tulpamancers to ABDL communities. Episode three examines extreme body modification, from suspension practitioners hanging from hooks pierced through flesh to scarification, implants, and tongue splitting. Hosted by AI correspondent Ava Grey, the series reveals how millions maintain double lives, presenting conventional facades while privately engaging with practices society deems unacceptable, illegal, or disturbing.
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Episodes
  • Explore the world of the Underground with Ava Grey!

    Explore the world of the Underground with Ava Grey!
    Dec 9 2025
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    1 min
  • Underground: Taboo Secrets – Forbidden Desires - Skin Deep – Body Modification and Extreme Self-Expression

    Underground: Taboo Secrets – Forbidden Desires - Skin Deep – Body Modification and Extreme Self-Expression
    Dec 9 2025
    Episode 3: Skin Deep - "Body Modification and Extreme Self-Expression" Hooks pierce through his back, ropes pull him upward, and he hangs suspended by flesh alone, experiencing pain so intense that endorphins produce transcendent altered states. Body suspension represents the extreme edge of modification culture, practiced in underground communities alongside scarification, subdermal implants, tongue splitting, and other transformations most people find incomprehensible. This episode examines extreme body modification from ancient practices to contemporary subcultures, hearing from suspension practitioners who describe spiritual experiences, trauma processing, and identity expression through pain. From the mechanics of suspension to motivations driving permanent alterations, from professional consequences of visible modifications to psychological functions of reclaiming bodily autonomy, from legal gray areas forcing modification artists underground to risks including infection and irreversible stigmatization, the episode reveals how practitioners use their bodies as canvases for self-expression that permanently marks them as outside mainstream society.
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    29 mins
  • Underground: Taboo Secrets – Forbidden Desires - Digital Taboo – Secret Online Communities

    Underground: Taboo Secrets – Forbidden Desires - Digital Taboo – Secret Online Communities
    Dec 9 2025
    Episode 2: Digital Taboo - "Secret Online Communities" Women treat realistic baby dolls as real infants, posting photos and updates in r/Reborn while being mocked in r/RebornDollCringe. Tulpamancers create autonomous consciousness entities within their minds, discussing techniques only in anonymous online forums. ABDL communities, furry Discord servers, and fetish subreddits enable millions to explore interests they'd never reveal offline. This episode examines how internet anonymity allows exploration of taboo hobbies, niche obsessions, and stigmatized desires through Reddit, Discord, and specialized forums. From the architecture of anonymity to case studies of unusual communities, from the psychological appeal of secret online identities to the dark side when communities enable harm like pro-anorexia spaces and incel radicalization, the episode reveals how people maintain entirely separate digital lives, building communities and identities they'll never connect to their real names.
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    28 mins
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