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How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon

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  1. Deimos
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    Pretty good digging by NBC in here, lots of new information that I don't think has been covered before. This post they linked in there looks like quite the read too, I'll have to come back to that...

    Pretty good digging by NBC in here, lots of new information that I don't think has been covered before. This post they linked in there looks like quite the read too, I'll have to come back to that one later.

    Also if you're following this stuff at all and didn't see this Pastebin from the other day by someone explaining how they cracked Q's tripcode and hijacked his "account", it's worth reading too: https://pastebin.com/P1g5RPWs

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  2. rake_tm
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    This was a really good read, especially coming from NBC. Normally the big players are horrible at online culture stuff like this, as evidenced by the referenced "infamous hacker 4chan" incident...

    This was a really good read, especially coming from NBC. Normally the big players are horrible at online culture stuff like this, as evidenced by the referenced "infamous hacker 4chan" incident and the fact that they usually just seem to run with stories from smaller online rags when something gets big enough for them to take notice. Kudos to them for actually getting someone who can understand this stuff to research and/or write for them.

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  3. sonamtashi
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    This was a pretty good article. I just find it strange that the one Q follower wanted to kill Trump, since the conspiracy overall is extremely pro-Trump. But this actually fits with one thing I've...

    This was a pretty good article. I just find it strange that the one Q follower wanted to kill Trump, since the conspiracy overall is extremely pro-Trump. But this actually fits with one thing I've noticed: every Q follower seems to have their own mini QAnon conspiracy theory going on. It is very much a "choose your own adventure" kind of thing. It also shows that avid conspiracy theorists are often capable of believing multiple conflicting conspiracy theories, and even self-conflicting theories. That is why this has managed to gain such a following without any evidence and with conflicting ideas.

    6 votes