If you can’t think of a legitimate reason for leaving your group, you’re probably in a cult.

Because the cult considers itself the ultimate authority on truth, it can’t imagine anybody leaving it with their integrity intact. Thus, it has to perpetuate a false narrative that former members were shitposters, liars, redditors, or evil.

If former members speak out, they are dismissed as spergy, Jelly, manipultors or evil. Cults often impose some kind of shunning to shame former members and prevent them from infecting other members with the truth.