It's Not a Trump Bubble, It's QAnon

[ancianita]

This is the weirdest collective insanity I've ever come across. Here I've thought it's limited to reddit rabbit hole digital types, but it's the pattern of craziness that shows its extent in real life. It's grown for years, so huge in reach that it's now reached Congress.

The absolute crazy part is the motivation -- for money. It's not just a Q circus for suckers and haters, it's become crazy, violent talk that leads to real world violence.

Who QAnon are might be an ongoing investigation by the FBI, but we're not being told any of that. For all we really know, they are documenting all kinds of QAnon fueling of all kinds of white supremacist militias now waiting out the results of this election. Any more public drama in the next five months could as likely be driven by the Qult as by Putin's or Trump's operatives.

And here I thought it was just a tweet-generated Trump bubble. No wonder the man moves on to other media when Fox turns to facts.

We talk of a "Trump Tribunal" or a "Crimes Commission." Aside from the SDNY's handling Trump, it's the whole crowd of his enablers (Flynn using the Qanon pledge? wtf?) who brought us to this point. Around that, a Truth Commission might reveal another beta test of campaign to create reality by consensus.


How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon

In November 2017, a small-time YouTube video creator and two moderators of the 4chan website, one of the most extreme message boards on the internet, banded together and plucked out of obscurity an anonymous and cryptic post from the many conspiracy theories that populated the website's message board. Over the next several months, they would create videos, a Reddit community, a business and an entire mythology based off the 4chan posts of “Q,” the pseudonym of a person claiming to be a high-ranking military officer. The theory they espoused would become Qanon, and it would eventually make its way from those message boards to national media stories and the rallies of President Donald Trump.

While the identity of the original author or authors behind “Q” is still unknown, the history of the conspiracy theory’s spread is well-documented — through YouTube videos, social media posts, Reddit archives, and public records reviewed by NBC News. NBC News has found that the theory can be traced back to three people who sparked some of the first conversation about Qanon and, in doing so, attracted followers who they then asked to help fund Qanon “research.”

Part of the Qanon appeal lies in its game-like quality. Followers wait for clues left by “Q” on the message board. When the clues appear, believers dissect the riddle-like posts alongside Trump’s speeches and tweets and news articles in an effort to validate the main narrative that Trump is winning a war against evil.

There are now dozens of commentators who dissect “Q” posts — on message boards, in YouTube videos and on their personal pages — but the theory was first championed by a handful of people who worked together to stir discussion of the “Q” posts, eventually pushing the theory on to bigger platforms and gaining followers — a strategy that proved to be the key to Qanon’s spread and the originators’ financial gain.

Source:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-theorists-took-q-sparked-qanon-n900531?fbclid=IwAR2L_tNvEw-l-GPJb37bdHTgmq2ARkuKodVC9JzhQeeJTXLC0cSCpq5RPoQ



One recent example of QAnon effects in the real world -- the Wayfair affair.

Late last June, a visitor scrolling through the Wayfair website noticed something curious. Several ordinary-looking cabinets featured there were listed at rather lofty prices tags. Further examination revealed that the cabinets—and other seemingly price-inflated products—bore the names of girls such as Samiyah and Yaritza. In an ordinary world, such a discovery would not be remarkable: Ikea and other furniture retailers routinely name their products after women, the price for a professional steel cabinet can be surprisingly steep, and it turned out that a computer glitch had caused an incorrect price to be assigned to a Wayfair pillow.

But this is no ordinary time and that was no ordinary visitor. She was Amazing Polly, an influencer with QAnon—the cultish conspiracy movement obsessed with global elites and pedophilia that has boomed in the past two years. “My spidey senses are tingling,” Polly posted on Twitter. “What’s with these ‘storage cabinets?’” The post seemed to languish before resurfacing as a bizarre question in an obscure Reddit chat room devoted to conspiracy theories: Was Wayfair trafficking children in overpriced cabinets? Seven days later, the multi-billion-dollar retail giant found itself at the center of a global conspiracy theory that claimed the company was running a massive child-sex-trafficking ring.

Source:
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/qanon-gop/


Now, YouTube shows QAnon warnings, but videos not taken down.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+general%2C+a+QAnon+icon%2C+recently+released+a+video+of+himself+and+his+family+earnestly+reciting+the+QAnon+pledge


Broad summary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon


And look how young its followers are.