âI could always be wrong. I have been wrong before. And I think every astrologer has been wrong before,â she says.
The strategy seems to be working. Rivers says that in the weeks following the June 21 presidential debate and the assassination attempt on Donald Trump on July 13, she saw her following on TikTok jump by 30,000âshe now has more than 200,000 followers on the app. She also added 466 people to her paid tier on Patreon, where she charges between $5 and $22 per month.
Joe Theodore, an astrologer on TikTok who started his account in mid-July, now has nearly 10,000 followers. His first video, in which he predicted that Harris would win the election, garnered more than 350,000 views. âThe couple of videos I put on there have been just blowing up a little, but I didn’t expect that at all,â he says.
Though astrology itself has been practiced in some form or…