THREAD: As many of the rank and file are feeling anger and despair, QAnon influencers are trying to calm things down.
But doubt is visible among some influencers too now.
One says despite sacrificing "a lot financially, relationship wise, health wise", today "makes no sense".
Another one says the QAnon community "risks fracturing" and "real friendships might be irreparably damaged because people are angry".
"People have every right to be angry, sad, disillusioned," he adds, asking for "charitable interpretation of our friends' posts".
Another of the big influencers seems to have thrown in the towel.
No mention of the plan anymore, instead, he asks his followers to "clean up the system from the bottom up".
One is hanging to the last vestiges of hope.
Although he admits Trump is no longer in power, he says it might just be possible that it's the military, not Biden, that will be in control of the US for the foreseeable future.
Some influencers are still keeping the faith, waiting for a miracle.
But even for them, it's all beginning to look like the dream is over.
"It's not over until God says it's over"
"Let's see what happens"
"Pray pray pray - it's all we can do now"
"I have not given up"
One who was recently banned by Twitter says he has no idea how the promised declassifications and arrests will happen now.
But he says to his unhappy subscribers to leave if they have lost faith.
Another one, still on Twitter with 108K followers, asks those mad to unfollow her.
Praying Medic, a major QAnon influencer, has not lost faith.
He says Biden is running the administration as an inmate inside a military compound, but he "doesn't know it yet".
Neon Revolt, another big influencer who famously wrote a book about QAnon, says he never trusted the plan or enjoyed the show, and took issues with Q.
He's mad and disheartened because he feels Trump gave up.
He doesn't know whether the plan is forever dead and Q is defeated.
Joe M, one of the biggest of all QAnon influencers, says he no longer has "faith in Q or the plan".
His faith is now in "red-blooded, proud and tenacious Americans" to do something about their country being "stolen by radical communists".
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A channel set up by influencer "Inevitable ET" just seven days ago has now surpassed 100K subscribers. Many other well-known Q influencers are among the subscribers.
The chat associated with it has just over 20K members and is very prolific.
This is Ron Watkins' channel.
He created it in December, but only started posting in it on 14 January as a "backup" for his account on Gab.
Since then, he's added 115K subscribers.
Kraken lawyer L Lin Wood, a QAnon supporter, created his channel on 11 January, the day Parler went offline.
He is not on Gab, so this channel is his main means of communication right now.
Videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral on and after election day gave rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal
The message was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment "deep state" had stolen it from him. bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…
A Facebook group called "Stop the Steal" was created on 4 November and became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history, adding more than 300,000 members.
Some of the posts were alarming, speaking of the need for a "civil war" or "revolution". bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…
BREAKING: Twitter has suspended the accounts of Ron Watkins, Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn.
Alongside L. Lin Wood, suspended yesterday, they were the most high-profile amplifiers of conspiracy theories about the election, whose tweets reached millions of Mr Trump's supporters.
All four feature prominently in a piece I'm working on about the online rhetoric and disinformation that sadly contributed to the storming of the Capitol.
In the absence of Q since election day, they became the main stars of the QAnon crowd.