Especially in modern online culture, with its oft-unhealthy obsession with ideology, performative behaviors, and political identities, one should recognize that there's a wide gray spectrum here - from someone who is "purely" an NVE, to people superficially adopting the appearances of various groups and ideologies, to people who may "obviously" be exemplary members or adherents to a group or ideology...but their underlying motives are all-too-clearly to articulate/fuel/inspire/justify/support their NVE condition.
Related concept: Salad Bar Extremism