Sadly, yes. At my school they act like then OWN the school, and like they're the coolest kids around. It's really annoying, actually. I can name a few: Ana, Kaylynn, Tiffany, Justin, Megan, Zach S., Emily S.(not related to Zach), and Kayla. Their rules are basically, everyone in the school has to know you, you HAVE to be pretty, and you have to be all gossipy. I think that basically, the only reason they're this so called 'popular', is because they cause all kinds of gossip about eachother and trash talk eachother.
Then they're actually the 'half populars'. The ones that don't TRY to be popular, but are. Examples: Me, Charlotte, and that's all I can think of.... We're the ones that don't spread rumors or gossip a whole lot, but we still do it unintentionally, or rarely, intentionally. It's kind of the friends basis that depends on half popularity. I know about ALL of the people in the school, even though I am a just starting 6th grader. I have been told I was half-popular by Kaylynn, if you want to know.
In my opinion, those fictional popular people are usually real in life. But truly, the REAL popular people are the ones with friends