A Former Witchtokker Explains the 2020 Moon Hexing 

Literally someone trying to hex the moon is like throwing a paper spitball at a tank

Tonight... we are going to hex ZE MOOOON

You know it’s really interesting that the only deities that exist during this whole hullabaloo are the Greek ones 🤔

I absolutely loved the dramatic entrance of the moon 😂 truely the protagonist of this story

I feel like 2020 was just a fever dream. So much happened that year. It was a wild time to be alive 😅

Spoiler alert: I just love that during this was happening in 2020, one of my favorite show (The Magicians) had a few episodes where they had to do a spell towards the Moon and they accidentally break it making the Moon pissed off at them to the point that they had to speak with the whales and then the Lunatics to speak to the Moon on their behalf just so they can have magic again

I remember someone tried to put a love spell on Hades on witchtok once and I was like good luck with that 💀

All of this just reminds me of the Hippies trying to levitate the Pentagon in like the 60s

Me: Pretty sure the gods can't just be hexed? Others: THE GODS ARE PISSED Me: I mean, if a mosquito bites me, it's annoying, but this would be more like a fruit fly? But also, I cracked up at "is the moon ok?"

As an Apollo devotee I couldn't imagine him getting mad at me for something someone else did, like I'm sorry divine retribution for the WORLD??? Wild theory to circulate.

some of this logic from some of these people is very "I chanted all night and what do you know? The moon got lower and lower in the sky until it Disappeared!!"

😭also, the way only artemis and apollo were in the conversation about moon and sun deities says a lot🤣

It always surprised me that the Convo stayed so singularly on Artemis and Apollo, when they just are associated with the moon and sun instead of Helios and Selene who are the literal sun and moon.

Hi, I started my witchy journey again in 2020, I do remember this going on and thought it was hilarious. As a bit of a seasoned witch, I don't think this is necessarily possible to hex the moon no matter how long anyone has been practicing. In my opinion it's just a bunch of "children" I emphasize children as immature people, trying to seem cool. I believe in deities and fae. I agree, the inexperienced witches were hex happy. If anything, the hex will bounce off the moon and go to them. Anyways, thank you for this video, I love your channel and your channel is very informative.

Bruh what a time to be alive, a witch, and on TikTok in 2020. I just sat back, and ate my popcorn waiting for those guys to fall flat on their own faces. It was freaking hilarious

Wasn't there a whole hexing the fey thing too???💀💀😭 Also, the thing with people being like "omg something is wrong with the moon" like girl the moon is FIIIIIINNNNEEEEE!!!!💀💀💀💀💀💀 (This was typed before I watched the video)

god all those people claiming that THEY did it, as well as the amount of people we still don't know to this day, REALLY reminds me of the My Immortal authorship saga

I wasn’t on TikTok but beginners ran to Pagan and Witches Amino which I was on. I specifically remember when the new/dark moon happened that month they started freaking out thinking it worked because they couldn’t see the moon. Several posts about that, with everyone explaining this happens at least once a month 😆

What's wild is that this isn't even the cringiest or most wild thing that circulated witchtok. I can't remember at what time, but it was post 2020, but there were people going around talking about how their goddess or deity was going around destroying other pantheons usurp them or punish them or something💀😭 I was trying my hardest to figure out the source of the nonsense and figure out who this deity was cause all the videos people were posting were just "they have destroyed Hecate (or whoever) and this deity is next or this pantheon is next" 😭

god i just saw something about this in an occult discord and it brought me straight back to 2020, i am So excited to hear you talk about it bc the way you break things down and narrate is just,,, *chef's kiss*

The rumors about hexing the fae had me panic laughing. Like, you're fucked if you try that. Even if you do everything right, you have fucked up.

Now that I have finished the video this whole story makes me think so much about "my immortal" the fanfiction from 2006. Where the mystery of who did it will never be solved and yet many have come out insisting it was them who did this thing everyone hated just for a bit of attention.

I also really don't care for the term "baby witch". I agree that it is infantilizing, whether as a disempowerment towards beginner witches or a cop out from beginner witches. I always struggled with being bothered by the whole "can someone give me a ___ spell? I'm just a baby witch and don't know what to do.." I would always offer advice on where they could begin their research, and then encourage them that they are not a baby which. They are simply inexperienced, and there's only one way to move beyond that.

With certain members of the government trying to bind TikTok in the USA I feel this video will be a historical pieace

I worked in a newsroom when this all went down! I wasn't on Reddit or Tiktok, so imagine my surprise when I was checking the main news outlets for story ideas that were not COVID related and I came across THAT. I thought it was a joke until multiple credible outlets were reporting it. I could only think "Yep, this is par for the course at the moment, but one, why would anyone go after one of the things that a fair number of us revere (not that it'd do anything except piss something off), and two, who gave whom the bright idea to fuck around with the beings who basically wrote the playbook of 'Fuck Around and Find Out'?"

I never thought I would EVER see mention of this in 2024... this was a staple of my quarantine era

I think that if this was actually true, I doubt it'd even backfire on the hexers. It's a bit like a kitten nipping at your arm. Harmless and kinda cute.

I had to smile when your video came across my feed. I remember this drama well for two main reasons: it exposed my privacy in my craft to the community I live in (some good ok, but mostly in how it temporarily disrupted my life), and that it made possible a better way for me to live my life.......and hilariously, conversations, planned or coerced, with anyone named "Stubbs" who had ever logged on to a social media site.

I remember being semi-new to witchcraft and knew it was stupid and impossible for NEW practitioners to hex the moon. Then I ran across someone who “channeled” Artemis and said she was hurt and that Apollo was mad and being like “Oh Shit…. Well they’re fucked…. Anyways, no more TikTok” or something like that. But ever since, I’ve always been iffy about people channeling for videos. Hoax or not, I’m sure the Gods had an amazing laugh. 100/10 Loki level drama. Not sure about many other trickster deities, but sounds like Loki.

I am a Christian and literally as far from a witch you can get (except my pretty rock/crystal collection) but when I tell yall I was OBSESSED with this drama and was lurking around the big witchtok creators videos for a solid year and a half 😂 their drama always went so hard and was fascinating to watch.

as someone who was into witchblr when it was big this whole situation was so god damn funny to me bc this scandal was so completely unbelievable and i’d already lived through like, someone openly stealing bones lmao

I don't use the moon as Goddess or the sun as God. I have continued to evolve over the past 40 years in my practice. I am a crone and just keep my Magik to myself. I too, don't like the term "baby witch". And you cannot "hex" the moon..period. its funny to think about them believing they were so powerful as to hex the moon. 😅

I remember the Hex of '20. Good times LMAO

I was so exited when I read that you were going to do this video! I was in a weird spot at the time all of this went down because I was creating on witchtok but not actively consuming witchtok content, so most of this stuff flew right past me and I only heard about the bare basics. So this breakdown was really helpful!

The Moon: Witch please...🌒 lol

Thanks for sharing this story. I remember hearing about it but I wasn’t on TikTok at the time only because I felt too overwhelmed to add another social media platform. Frankly, now I’m on TikTok (and witchtok) late..in true ADHD witch style, LOL I do think I would have migrated over there much sooner but this story coming out in 2020 was part of why I didn’t, what a shame. As a witch who came up in the late 90’s-early aughts, I had no involvement with discussions anywhere about this but thought to myself that anyone uninformed enough to decide to curse the moon couldn’t pull it off anyway. I was less worried about the moon (and the many deities associated with Her) and more concerned about the witchcraft community. Looking back after hearing your retelling of this story, I thank you wholeheartedly for your honesty and candor! You’ve shed a lot of light on this and a perspective that many of us would’ve missed. It does make me wonder if the whole thing was planted inside the communities on witchtok and Reddit in order to keep people out of these spaces and harm the community by depriving it of many voices who might offer even more guidance, experience, and balance. I think many witches who could’ve been helping raise up people like you and others who wanted to help and educate were put off by the whole thing. So actually, shame on those of us who didn’t come to the aid of you and the rest of the witches on TikTok who had to try to manage a media 💩show.

I needed this laugh today XD I never got into the Witchtok, but I heard about the hexing of the moon and the fae 😂 Good luck with that! Really appreciated the overview of it because I wasn't there but I wanna know for entertainment purposes lmao

Seems about as effective as getting in the shower and trying to kick the shower waters ass

this was honestly so funny im sorry

Funny enough, the witchtok "moon hex" debacle is the one that got me into witchcraft. As soon as I discovered channels like yours, I went down a rabbit hole I couldn't climb out of, read books, tried out some rituals and a few spells and now I call myself a practitioner. 😂

FINALLY, an EXPLANATION!! Seriously, thank you

No matter what you said, or how bad it turned out, remember, it will never be as bad as silver ravenwolf telling teenage girls she astral projected and had a conversation with cleopatra bad. Also wanted to add that Apollo is not the god of the sun, and Artemis is not the goddess of the moon. Those would be the Titans Helios and Luna. So i don't what mythology everyone else has been smoking, but it's not the same one the greeks were.

I remember this being said in old witchcraft Facebook groups and it was just ridiculous it just really showed how many people truly shouldn’t and don’t have the gift and it’s forced. Because there’s no inner knowing of also discernment.

As a pagan for most of my life - with an Irish father. I think witchtoks obession with the Fae always baffled me. I grew up with them as my personal boogie men... i still am weird about Fae stuff and superstitions around them. This was a great video btw.

I had completely forgotten about this lmaooo

Could you do a video on the whole Fae Hexing thing? I remember being on witchtok at the time but I have no idea what happened there other than rumors. So I would love to hear another one of these essays with what happened there. Sounds like an interesting video, but of course it's up to you. ^^

So do you think we can blame this hex for the moon rusting? ☝🏻🔴

I almost had a heart attack with that title. I read it as a former witch.... And immediately thought that the crazy "witch hunter" Christian RU-vidrs had gotten to Frankie. And now they,(Frankie), were going to start making anti witchcraft videos.

Never heard of this. I stay away from social media. Does this mean the movie "Moonfall" was NOT a documentary???

If only I was on witchtok in 2020, this would have been fun to watch lol.

i heard "italian witch practice" and i immediately tuned in and subscribed!! im italian and a which but dont have much connection to my area in italy !

Thank you so much for the trip down memory lane 😆 This "event" made it's way to the witchcraft groups on Facebook, that's how i heard about it. I was just giggling over the thought that someone thought it would do something to the moon and not just straight backfire onto themselves 😂 I've not been a TikTok user but this was around the time I started coming out about my beliefs more, being a witch for 30 years i was kinda happy witchcraft was moving to mainstream. I did feel like it was all a hoax to discredit the community. Great synopsis of the unprecedented event 👏🏻 😂❤

Those 4 ameteur witches prolly got really high one day and watched "the craft" and came up with the idea while attacking multiple bags of doritoes and dip....😂

It was definitely me lmao

Another one was the whole "Zenithrus" deity replacing the other pantheons and hexing those deities from various pantheons LOLOLOL

I remember one of my sons telling me about this when it happened and I have to admit, I laughed at the absurdity. People curse at nature every day and nature is too big to care what individual humans say. Why was it news? It's the sort of thing that happens in all faiths and I see it especially my own - Christianity. You tend to get three major camps in most faiths. There are the practical believers. They are the ones who understand that they have to make sense of their faith in the context of the scientific world we live in and seek that balance. There are the fundamentalists who ignore the sciences and go hard into their faith. The are very often new converts or only a generation deep. These are the ones most likely to see religious significance in the random. They are also the more likely to get into a fight over their faith or be tricked by the third group. Then you have your opportunists who don't believe in a faith but will pose as faithful for personal gain. Think politicians who claim to be Christian but certainly don't exhibit the "fruit of the spirit." Con artists and most cult leaders also fit in this category. This sort of stuff was playing out in all the religions during the pandemic and we were bored enough to be amused by all the reporting on it. If we'd been outdoors and talking to our friends in person and all the other things that are important to our mental health, this moon hexing probably wouldn't have gone anywhere because no one would have cared. Sadly, we were all feeling a bit superstitious which happens when humans are frightened, and it blew up. You may enjoy doing a bit of a dive into other religions and what they were experiencing during this time and seeing the similarities!

I was in two different coven discords where someone was like OMG GUY SOMEONES HEXING THE MOON… and we were all like …. Good luck with that

I wanna know why someone would try to hex the moon , as someone who works with some Moon Deities (Ex: Artemis, Khonsu , Selene , Nyx (She's a goddess of night but i think it still counts) , ect ) i definitely am curious why. And another thing , witches usually need the moon for things like moon water and especially if their practice revolves around the moon . So I'm gonna hope it never actually happened and was just a rumor.

8 minutes and 35 + seconds into the video and I'm not trying to be rude but I'm bored out of my mind. I keep trying to fast forward 10 seconds at a time because I usually love your content but lately it seems as if I'm fast forwarding more and more to get to the actual "meat and potatoes" of your video. Please, consider the format in which you deliver your content? Deliver a BRIEF synopsis of the subject matter, research involved/you did, your opinion(s) & the back-and-forth banter but I stress a BRIEF SYNOPSIS of these things, then the actual content and subject matter and finish with a deep dive into the aforementioned material. You're losing followers and supporters and I've noticed more and more comments such as mine in the last few videos with growing consistency. I'm a good 21+mins into your video, I've had it playing it the background and you've BARELY even BEGUN to touch on the main point. I appreciate your solid attempt to include everyone and update potential newbies and fill them in but it's taking so much time those of us who do have knowledge (which I'll be bold enough to assume is a larger percentage of your target demographic) struggle to get through those aspects especially considering you find yourself consistently re-explaining basic info. Idk I'll stop rambling, I hate that I'm most likely coming across as some ga5te filled online troll which I absolutely do not want at all. You're amazing, as is your content!! I wish you and yours nothing but the best babe. I just wanted to add some unsolicited constructive criticism/advice. Blessed be to your and yours as well as to anyone who might reading this as well 🖤🌻🖤

Heyyyyy off topic but I’m begging for a tutorial on how you’ve tied your veil here it’s so pretty 😭

Hmmm. Lunacy going so quick like a flood. it looks like strong influence of Moon 🌑🤘 Even if that situation was only theoretical mindplay with boost from tiktok/reddit, realms of Luna are above the matterial world, right? All madness, inspirations, desires, imagination and visualization, it is all in Her domain so maybe this tiktok/reddit situation was enought to unbalance this Lunar energy on Earth causing all this (unbalancing physical Moon could be far worse😂)

This is why i don't like mixing witchcraft with social media. Too many uninitiated ppl messing around with things they can't even grasp. Not to mention ppl using magic against others for making comments we don't like.

thank you for bringing up your intiial response and taking accountability! Seeing your response at that time made me sad so I stopped following you on tiktok but I'm so glad to have found you again and so proud of your growth!! Also fr thats so fair, Tiktok was still new, we all had no idea how quickly things could go viral. Love you!

- This is very likely not the source. Probably just a coincidence, if not a strange one Honestly back in high school in 2020-2022 (cant remember the year), one of us heard some kids trying to hex the moon and curse the fae, and told the rest of us. We stayed out of it. "Fuck around and find out" and "the moons stronger than what their trying to do" type thing. I didn't know there was a widespread thing about something similar until now. Even when i first heard from my friend, my first thought was that it was people who weren't witches, heard about witchy stuff and wanted to try something extreme like kids trying to summon a ghost at a sleepover type crap. No idea if this is the same incident, probably not, though since this was happening out in the open at school during lunch, it could have been overheard by just about anyone and spread via word of mouth.

This is the most highschool drama I read a book on wicca and am now powerful thing I have ever seen. Tell me you are stuck at 13 without saying it outright. Not sure why this was in my feed...first I have ever heard of this whole high school drama witchy thing. Baby wanna be witch is more like it. Aka IRABO "I read a book once" she acts like she is maybe all of 15???

Hex the moon? Wait till you hear....after the cursed movies of the 80s and they started getting movie sets blessed by the priest like hollywood ghosts didnt have a sense of humor. Back to hex the moon........I'm still alive in the middle of everybody. Oooooooo. IAmAGlitch

Wonderful video! As someone who was only tangentially aware of the rumor and reactions to it, I appreciate this deep dive. I remember that my whole reaction was "Why would anyone even do that? What do they hope to accomplish?" but never got a good answer. And now I guess I know why.

God it feels like it was so recent but it’s been four years.

I was high key at the beach when this whole debacle was going on (it was a small beach and we took precautions against covid by masking, carrying sanitizer, social distancing, etc.) while my friend and I were there we noticed the waves were a lot rougher (as tides are tided to the moon if im remembering correctly don't quote me lol)

it's so wild because I assumed from the get that this was a joke! Like ... I truly just thought the original poster(s) were just fucking with us all

we tried so hard to warn, to teach, to humble. it was a train wreck. so so much cultural appropriation and on flip of it so many people claiming authority to close practices also. so effed up

spiritual psychosis. the lack of irl human connection is dangerous

My biggest question is why a witch would hex the moon in the first place. I was always under the impression that witches liked the moon (granted not a witch, nor in the community).

i literally thought the entirety of the world was doomed bc the moon would fight back

My ex husband is a psychopath, narcissist and chaos magician. I recognise these behaviours as exactly something he would do just to create anarchy and revel in it.

This was one of the reasons why I left tiktok. I don't know what everyone was up to but I knew I wanted no part in it.

Looking back on this, as a creator on TikTac back then, I think we all got trolled

I am so upset to hear that ANYONE would dare to hex the Goddess of the Moon. She means very much to me. But it’s good to hear that it’s just made up. More than likely. I don’t go on TikTok so I just found this video on my feed & the title drew me in because of the Moon… the sea & tides will not be happy. Nor would nature. I can’t imagine that any of this would bode well for anyone in the world at all… thank you for the video & information by the way, I appreciate it 🙏🏻🦋🌊

I have a very interesting take on the moon on a philosophical/pagan/magical level: the Moon *is* an entity, this doesn't mean that it has to be alive. So how: 1) Can you kill something that is not even alive? 2) Can some beginner practitioners even hurt in any way shape or form a God*? 3) Did no one see this as bait? I'm sorry, but we all got a bit jebaited during those crazy hours. * or an entity that exists, but isn't alive as we experience "life/aliveness"

i also remembered that this was this guy on tiktok who challenged witches to hex him. i wonder whatever happened to him...

How dare they hex the moon on my birthday. I hope they got triple vaxxed

Maybe you all can help me… I had a very spiritual dream 4 years ago that my friend Shelby was lifeless laying on a bed in a dark room… I walked in and was trying to wake him up… when I looked up to see three beautiful women in the doorway… they wouldn’t enter the room… two of them were whispering something that I couldn’t hear… but the leader smiled at me and said Joe and Shelby are both moon flowers… I picked up Shelby off of the bed my eyes rolled into my head and I had a power I didn’t realize I had… I levitated up the wall and held out Shelby in a way that I felt scared the woman at the door… I woke up with a stirring of my spirit. This month my friend Shelby was in a terrible accident and had his back broken… and a long forgotten dream came back to mind of his lifeless body. Does this mean anything to you all?

I cannot believe this is the first I am hearing about this. Darn this would have been an amazing thing to read about and comment on during the occurrence. I do think it sounds like a viral hoax but if it did occur I do fall into the opinion that it wouldn't work and the deities are likely to have been simply amused. It does sound like a lot of people were incredibly lit-up by it... kinda like feeding a fire and giving people a reason to freak out and be angry. All in all... This was hilarious, you are adorable, and I love your content as usual.

Me: what do you think about people who have claimed to hex the moon? My tarot deck: The fool.

Ooooh my god, I remember coming across these videos 😂😂 I'm pretty sure I completely blocked this out of my mind LOL

This was great fun to hear about the drahma, how social media ran with it and the non-event conclusion. Very informative!

Its absolutely absurd 😂.

witchtok reminded me so much of ye olde witch tumblr. Despite the absolute insanity, I thought it was kinda cute.

If it was REALLY this easy to hex the moon, and anger the gods, we'd be fucked 24/7/365.

It's giving Zhao in ATLA 🤣

It's almost like a modern-day version of "witch hysteria"

I thought we all agreed to never speak of this again XD like the live action Avatar tla movie

as someone who was a niche internet microinfluencer on witchtok during this period.. good god.. this wasn’t even the craziest thing to happen (re: the “witchtok” tag getting “hexed” and everyone freaking out, the she-who-must-not-be-named podcaster getting outed as a neonazi, the classic “bringing my demon to work” video, i could go on)

Tik-Toxic. Thank you for doing this to remind everyone what can happen when things run away.

As an ancient soul i am practicing shaman of Odin with soul ties to the dark fae (do with that what you will) i can assure you the moon is well enough protected by ancient magiks, i do thank you for bringing this to my attention i will take it to the high council on the astral, (if you dont know its a smart idea to figure out how to find them)

Wow, it's so "funny" to think about being so far removed from it. I remember being on Tiktok and being like "what the actual f" but then I was like "none of my business" and ignored it lmao

Those were quite the times. They tried hexing the moon, the fey, and even the president. We won’t have to worry about witchtok much longer. 😂

As a Nordic sorcerer, when we hex the moon, it falls out of the sky followed by Ragnarök.

I’m glad that you talked about the aftermath of this event not just the drama of it. The lessons learned, the effect it had on the community is the interesting part to me. The actual event was just much ado about nothing but it still had consequences. This whole story feels very moon tarot card energy to me. Illusions and deception. It feels like someone was teaching the community a lesson. Don’t believe everything you hear. Don’t jump on the bandwagon. Don’t be so quick to react. There was such an explosion of misinformation at that time broadly. I kinda wonder what was going on astrologically then 🤔 that would be interesting to look at.

My response was to laugh like crazy, and get popcorn because, really? A couple of dumb kids are gonna hex the moon? Be stronger in your faith. I also started diving deeper into researching Celtic Paganism and I've become a reconstructionist. I don't want to associate too much with the modern witchcraft community. It's kinda special and this whole incident proved it. There is a reason why most of us are solo practitioners.