Thread by @_MAArgentino

This Reddit post from a "Robinhood insider" claims that the White House is responsible for shutting down $GME. This has all the things QAnon loves 1) anonymous insider, 2) blames Biden, and 3) secret plots to controll the population.

Because the logic here is the deep state/Biden is trying to prevent this, well it's something that QAnon adherents as opponents of the deep state/Biden should partake in. We now have conspiracy stonks (let's buy X because the deep state doesn't want us to).

Linked to the conversations around $GME on telegram, for the past 24 hours users in QAnon chats have been promoting Doge Coin and giving instructions on how to purchase for those who have never done so. The ammount of bad financial advice I am seeing hurts to read.

Some in QAnon are also calling $GME et al. Their great reset as a way to counter the Great Reset planned by the deep state elites, to which Biden has recently commited to. So they perceive this as a way to fight against the "system" created by their ideological beliefs.

The $GME stocks are also being promoted in German, Italian and French QAnon channels. Though not as heavily as in the English speaking channels.

This post covers the general tropes as to why there is community support in QAnon for $GME, they link it to their existing fake virus conspiracy theories, the deep state Conspriacy theories, elites, bankers etc. All the bad guys are covered by their worldview under this one event

Of course there are also plenty of anti-Semitic comments linked to this, whether it's celebrating and encouraging this l, even if anons loose money because the Jewish bankers will loose more, or that the Jewish elites are pressuring the White House to stop this.

Just saw one person in a QAnon chat say the just put 60K of their savings in $GME this am. I wonder how many in these chats will loose money and then come back to commiserate and blame the deep state and the gov for their poor investment choices. This can create grievances.

The core point here is QAnon doesn't really care about the stocks or the motivation behind WSB in doing this. They are jumping on this bandwagon because it fits within their ideological world view and is seen as a way to fight the enemy that has been painted by "Q" et al.

This is no different than when they took over "save the children" they really didn't care about the kids it was a way for them to hijack a left leaning hashtag that fit their world view to attack their enemies. It was never about the cause but about how it fits their ideology.

What's interesting about this is that it appears to have come from the bottom up in QAnon chats rather than top down from QAnon channels managed by the influencers. The influencers are now feeding into it but they are not the originators of the conversations around this.

This is not something that is new as QAnon adherents are not passive consumer but also content creators which play a role in constructing the community narratives and can feed into the actions of the influencers or "Q" when "Q" was posting.

Again what is of importance is not necessarily what QAnon adherents are doing, but why they are doing it: i.e. they see this as a way to fight against the deep state elites.

I haven't measured the reach or volume of content from QAnon in regards to $GME but it is very likely a drop in the bucket compared to the wider conversation around this. I'm interested in the behaviors at play and how they are adapting this even to their narrative.