An Anti-Cults follower with customary green face paint, a visual expression of their motto "Green With Envy".

The origin of the Anti-Cults "micro-faith" grew out of the despair created by a near decade of dominance, by Cults C.C., over the rest of the Aberdeen Cricket Association member clubs. Initially, Anti-Cults followers were casually dismissed as being jealous or "green with envy" ( a phrase that they would later adopt as their motto and visually express by daubing their faces with green paint) .

By winning the Grade 1 title in 1999, Bon Accord C.C. ended a run of nine successive titles for Cults and, with it, the aura of invincibility that had surrounded them. During that season, there were many, bad tempered, meetings between the two sides and many Grades cricketers painted the fallen Cults giants as the villains, awakening dormant negative feelings towards the club. The Bons success was (briefly) hailed as a triumph for the small guy.

But, the following season, The Bons were burdened by the yoke of champions and were, themselves, turned from heroes to villains by envious clubs, fuelled (it was suspected) by mischievous propaganda from Cults sources. The effectiveness of this "misinformation" was minimal, however, and Bon Accord succeeded in retaining their good relationships with the majority of Grades clubs and remain, to this day, perhaps the most popular of all the Grades cricket clubs amongst their peers.

Cults, on the other hand, seem unable to "convert" Anti-Cultists and the club's continued level of success suggests that the Anti-Cults following should thrive, accordingly, for many more years.