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
Wow, I had not seen that pastebin before. I don't think I have seen anyone lay out how wrong the whole "Q" level security clearance is before, which is interesting. I had never bothered to look it...
Wow, I had not seen that pastebin before. I don't think I have seen anyone lay out how wrong the whole "Q" level security clearance is before, which is interesting. I had never bothered to look it up, but assumed it was some kind of top secret intelligence clearance from how the Qanon folks described it. For it to just be some kind of engineer / scientist level clearance is pretty funny.
I follow Will Sommers of the Daily Beast and one of the reporters on this story Ben Collins on Twitter who have been all over Qanon for awhile now. Collins pointed out a really interesting bit of this story on Twitter yesterday showing that it is pretty clear that Rogers is in fact the one LARPing as Qanon.
The most damning evidence includes a video of Rogers on his livestream that many claim show him logging in to post as Q accidentally. The feed quickly cuts out. He says, "Sorry, leg cramp." "How did you post as Q?" a viewer asks in the livechat.
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.
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.
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
Wow, I had not seen that pastebin before. I don't think I have seen anyone lay out how wrong the whole "Q" level security clearance is before, which is interesting. I had never bothered to look it up, but assumed it was some kind of top secret intelligence clearance from how the Qanon folks described it. For it to just be some kind of engineer / scientist level clearance is pretty funny.
I follow Will Sommers of the Daily Beast and one of the reporters on this story Ben Collins on Twitter who have been all over Qanon for awhile now. Collins pointed out a really interesting bit of this story on Twitter yesterday showing that it is pretty clear that Rogers is in fact the one LARPing as Qanon.
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1029410986510495744
Here is also a screencap of Rogers' Facebook account bragging that he will be on TV and reported as being Q
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkkwyNaX0AAXJ56.jpg:large
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.
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.