It always seemed to me that QAnon was some sort of online LARP on 4chan that got out of control and metastasized. It’s left a trail of broken families and swept into the mainstream with branding and everything. After the predictions of Trump’s return to power after Jan 6th it seems to have fizzled out. Did QAnon stop posting? Did their adherents just glom onto the next crazy theory? How many followers now disavow the theories of QAnon?
They became the Government and are using their power to mass fire everyone to get rid of the Deep State.
Why do you think MAGA is so willing and ready to fire huge swaths of the US Government?
They went on about the “deep state” because their goal was to create a deep state.
You mean “”“The Deep State”“” right? …right?
Yeah, the non-existent Deep State. These fuckers are firing important people looking for ghosts and goblins.
It kind of merged into a couple things, from what I’ve seen: “wellness” (you know the kind, antivaxx mommy blog crap, Joe Rogan raw meat diets, supplements), “preppers” (people ready for a race war and living off the grid a la The Turner Diaries), and the “tradwife/MIGTOW” stuff. There’s the splinter adherents from various right-wing influencer podcasts thinking JFK or whoever is going to reemerge at Dealy Plaza, but those invariably fizzle out. The integration into broader movements is where it’s thriving. You get lured in with yoga, then next thing you know you’re canning beans because you won’t be the one eating bugs because that’s what the democrats want.
It’s truly fascinating to watch these people who have been captured by the more intelligent get (to use an overused analogy) herded between ‘fields’ like sheep.
A good long form video on Flat Earth and Qanon by Dan Olsen. In case someone is new and curious about what Qanon is.
QAnon appeared to me to be a LARP that wanted to convince people that pedos are the Democrats running local pizza shops, rather than the anti-trans people demanding to inspect your child’s genitals to play sports. When their base became more concerned about gematria than the beauty pageant king hanging out in the dressing room with underage girls, then they effectively won.
It’s my theory that QAnon was being controlled by Republican election strategists. Steve Bannon has bragged about this.
It was no coincidence that Pizzagate started immediately after the news broke that Trump used to go into teenage dressing rooms.
I don’t doubt the a MAGA crowd leant into the Q conspiracy and were happy to co-opt it’s adherents into it’s electoral base. However is there any evidence that links its genesis to the like of Banon? Most of what I heard (from across the pond, indirectly) was more traditional wedge issues like anti-DEI and anti-trans rhetoric.
They are still there. I used to be on Gab, Voat, and others where a lot of them congregated. Half of them are fucking US senators now… I did my best to debunk as much shit as I could, or bring some voices of reason to the table when possible. iirc a lot of them are on 8chan and some other chan-fragments that spun off.
They’re still active as fuck on telegram.
