On any given day, Los Angeles’s Hollywood Boulevard teems with tourists and street performers clustered near the area’s many landmarks. But in recent months, the strip has been set abuzz for a new reason.

Throngs of mostly adolescent boys and young men have been rushing the Church of Scientology’s international headquarters on the famed street.

The so-called “speed runs” appear to be bids for social media valor – clips of the raids have amassed millions of views on TikTok – as much as they are an outgrowth of public intrigue surrounding the church, which has previously drawn accusations of being a cult.…