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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19 Jan
There's now a fake channel on Telegram, created last night, which poses as one of the most senior generals of the US Air Force.

It's racked up 150K subscribers and is posting QAnon slogans, claiming the military will finish the job tomorrow and asking anons to stay home.
All the posts on this fake QAnon general's channel disappeared.

He first claimed to have been hacked, then deleted that post.

Now says "attacked on all social media" and "the enemy is awake".

It has 216K subscribers now.
There's another fake pro-Trump general who created a channel three days ago urging the president to overturn the election, gaining 50K subscribers.

He's now calling fake on the new general for stealing his thunder and copying his posts.

"Please unfollow that channel."
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THREAD: QAnon on Telegram update

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. ImageImage
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. Image
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.

The channel surpassed 300K subscribers today. Image
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The violence in Washington shocked the world and caught the authorities off guard.

But for anyone who had been watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of US cities - it came as no surprise.

We tell the story of 65 days that led to chaos.
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The message was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment "deep state" had stolen it from him.
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Some of the posts were alarming, speaking of the need for a "civil war" or "revolution".
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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.
It definitely looks like Twitter has finally decided to do what Facebook and YouTube did three months ago.

Major QAnon influencers are falling one after another
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There was a pro-Trump "Stop the Steal" rally held in Osaka, Japan, today.

Videos suggest at least a few thousand people attended, alleging the election was stolen from Mr Trump.

There was also a "Stop the Steal" rally in Tokyo at the end of November.

A similar "Stop the Steal" rally was held in Taipei, Taiwan, yesterday.

It received widespread coverage on the social media accounts of The Epoch Times.

Here's more about the Tokyo "Stop the Steal" rally, which was held three weeks ago 👇
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Now that the US Supreme Court has dismissed the case by Texas, QAnon supporters are unanimous on what must happen next.

The military getting directly involved is the only way to overturn the election, they say.

Some are even advising each other to stockpile food and ammunition.
When I say unanimous, I really mean unanimous.

Literally every major QAnon influencer and account I know is saying the military should now get involved to help overturn the election outcome.
And now Ron Watkins from 8chan/8kun says things are "teetering ever precariously" towards the military intervening to overturn the election.
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