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?
Q went away except for a few random posts around December or January 2020-2021 (can’t recall). A documentary series on HBO seemed to point to Ron Watkins as likely Q. He ran for some office and did very poorly. Q wasn’t needed anymore, but the destruction to families remained in its wake.
QAA podcast continues to study bizarre right-wing conspiratorial thinking (it’s quite entertaining and usually pretty funny when not saddening). There was a book published recently about specific case studies of people whose lives were destroyed by the movement and where they are now, The Quiet Damage, by Jesselyn Cook. There are other books on the subject, including Trust the Plan, by Will Sommer.
Our society will continue experiencing real-world harm because of the radicalization of Q supporters for years, I’m sure.
Hello there.
They did their jobs. They divided regular people and got kleptocrats to go full mask off. They’re laughing at us, probably.
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.
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.