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.
It would be cool if it was just a fictional setting that people write in, but the fact that people genuinely believe it is pretty wild. I’m shocked that AWTOK apparently originated in the 2000’s. It seems more like a new thing for some reason. I knew of otherkin and therians in passing, but didn’t know anyone who was one. I’m assuming this is a conspiracy theory to explain why some people drop out of the community. Definitely not that they eventually grew out of it.
I went down the rabbit hole and holy fuck, this is terrifying. It’s a woowoo doomsday cult for kids.