It's probably safe to assume that if you found your way here, you are already familiar with QAnon. However, just in case you came for the jokes but you're still a little unclear on the basics, here's a good place to start. patreon.com/posts/what-is-…
Continuing with the theme of the basics, why does QAnon call itself a 'research movement,' and why won't Q followers just explain what it is they believe? patreon.com/posts/why-wont…
How does QAnon spread when it's so dumb?
Part 1: Active Recruitment
The techniques Q promoters use to manipulate friends & family into the movement are based on some practiced, effective techniques pioneered by the alt-right, MLMs, cults & con-artists. patreon.com/posts/qanon-gu…
How does QAnon spread when it's so dumb?
Part 2: Passive Recruitment
If you are not accustomed to critical theory and are willing to devote a few hours to Bitchute, the recruitment videos of QAnon can take you all the way down the funnel. patreon.com/posts/qanon-sa…
So now we've covered what QAnon is, and how people get into it. But what do followers actually DO once they believe?
Simple: they spend hours examining everyday events for evidence that what they believe is real, establishing their mythos by consensus. patreon.com/posts/explaine…
The final installment of "the basics" is one of the most common questions I get asked: how can I get my grandmother OUT again?
Well, it's not going to be easy and you're going to have to use some of the same techniques QAnon used to get her in. patreon.com/posts/can-you-…
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Today is the two-year anniversary of the James Comey tweet that sparked the Grass Valley Charter School Incident, where QAnon frightened a school into canceling their annual fundraiser.
While the initial "decode" might not look even the slightest bit rational to us, Joe M recognized its potential and spread it to his 100k followers (this was 2019, so 100k followers made him by far one of the biggest QAnon accounts at the time)
After the decode went viral in QAnon, believers started calling the school to warn them of the impending Deep State attack.
School officials cancelled the event-- not because they thought there was a plot, but because they feared QAnon might show up to "protect" them.
Right now, QAnon is on a similar trajectory as Pizzagate was after Edgar Welch shot up Comet. After the widely publicized violence it became unfashionable to be a "Pizzagate believer" but they didn't go away by any means, they just found a more private corner of the internet.
For the first time EVER, I'm going to say this: Q actually saw this one coming.
There's a reason Q instructed their followers to stop saying "QAnon" and stop talking about "Q" and start using more and more coded language as the election approached.
It's also why none of the big-name Q promoters did their typical ban evasion tricks after the great purge of January 8th, but instead retreated to Telegram taking as many of their followers with them as possible.
I'm working on a revision and expansion of my adrenochrome thread, and can I just say it's amazing how many studies were conducted in the 1950s linking mescaline and adrenochrome based on molecular similarities? No wonder it entered pop culture.
Most of these studies came up with "well, it doesn't do much" as their result and yet the studies continued
Changes to brain activity on mescaline are profound and accompanied by patients reporting euphoria and hallucinations
On adrenochrome, patients felt a little drowsy and the changes to brainwave activity are... well, let's just call them "unimpressive"
The evolution of this single book really says a lot about QAnon
As suspected, all references to Q have been removed from the latest edition
"Thank you to the entire Q Army... thank you the 8-chan Anons who do battle" has been replaced by "Thank you to all the patriots everywhere... thank you to those who do battle"
This is like reading a Creationist textbook edited into an Intelligent Design textbook.