Taylor Swift fan subculture mentioned as an example of a group that gets called a cult through hyperbole but isn't actually a traditional cult with robes and rituals.
"The cop-out answer is to point to an existing subculture (e.g., the far left, the far right, Swifties) and claim that they are, in fact, a cult. But this is just hyperbole to make a group seem extremist in their behavior. They are not the good old-fashioned cults from the past with robes and rituals"