“It feels like we are losing her to an addiction.” Man, @JaneLytv did her excellent thing and talked to family members of QAnon believers. No story about the QAnon delusion hit me as hard as this one. buzzfeednews.com/article/janely…
One person, about her mom: “Occasionally, I become emotional because we can’t have any normal conversations anymore."
Another, on her best friend: "We've gotten through life/death situations. Together....I've lost my best friend. I don't think she's ever going to come back.”
Ooof. "My cousin is divorcing her husband over his obsession with QAnon."
Frédéric, in Belgium, about his partner: "This poison is troubling our relationship, so we avoid the subject. But this is not the right thing to do, I would like her to wake up from this bad dream."
Will do one more:
"A divorced couple's previously successful co-parenting has broken down because of QAnon.
'My son is refusing to go to his dad's house,' a woman wrote. 'He is always telling me he wants his old dad back, and it has caused my son so much anxiety.'"
By the way, referring to it as a delusion is no accident — @DruMoorhouse and our copy team recently made the call to change the @styleguide to refer to QAnon as a "collective delusion," because it's far bigger than a conspiracy theory. Read more here: buzzfeednews.com/article/drumoo…
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