I keep wondering if the internet age + social media is helping to create another kind of cult, a decentralised new type of cultish beliefs without necessarily a single charismatic leader but a network of them feeding each other.

It's happening with conspiracy theories, there's no single central figure commanding them but a stochastic machine reeling people in, which then feedbacks into itself.

Nofap has definitely traces of cultish behaviour, I'd like a new word to describe such movements because it seems they will only increase over time.

> It's happening with conspiracy theories, there's no single central figure commanding them but a stochastic machine reeling people in, which then feedbacks into itself.

Interesting view. Kinda reminds me of stuff in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.