I had a couple classmates that pretended to be vampires back in elementary and middle school. They’d pretend their Koolaid was blood, complain about the sunlight, and bite their friends a lot. Not enough to draw blood, though. I haven’t kept up with most of them, but one guy is a teacher now. He seems pretty normal.
there was a group of girls at my high school who self identified as witches
i imagine they grew up to moderate r/witchesvspatriarchy
Or catholics
I mean, it is a religion. Not much weirder than someone saying they’re Buddhist.