I asked because there's a lot of cult-like behavior happening in crypto,

I'm curious to know which group or crypto you are referring to?

I think a lot of survivors became de facto cult experts, because we all went through this weird denial phase where everyone began consuming as much literature as we could on cults, especially the ones with bullet points with like ten or twenty things that all cults do, to try to convince each other that we were or weren't just in a cult.