Netflix ’s new three-part documentary series, Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult , hit the streaming service earlier this week and has already shocked viewers with its allegation of a “ cult-like ” atmosphere inside 7M Films, a management company that works with TikTok dancers. The riveting series follows the duo known as the Wilking Sisters, a pair of dancing siblings who ran a popular TikTok channel. Miranda and Melanie Wilking were close, and their runaway success online brought them not just millions of followers but also a series of lucrative brand partnerships.
That was before April 2019, when Miranda received a message from a fellow dancer named James “BDash” Derrick. The pair collaborated on a dance video, and then started a romantic relationship. James’s videographer, Isaiah Shinn, introduced the couple to a religious group, known as the Shekinah Church, which had been founded decades earlier by Isaiah’s father, Robert Shinn.
During the early part of the 2020 pandemic the couple spent time with the Wilking family in Michigan, but when Miranda returned to LA her sister started to notice that she was becoming withdrawn and distant. In January 2021, Miranda decided not to attend her grandfather’s funeral after saying she needed permission from “someone closer to God” to fly home. Later that year she and James got engaged, and they married without any of her family present.
She now goes by Miranda Derrick. By 2022, Miranda’s close-knit family.
