Cont: Qanon Conspiracy Theories Part Two

[Craig4]

Filmmaker says he potentially uncovered man behind QAnon

https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2021/04/06/qanon-identity-hbo-filmmaker-ac360-vpx.cnn

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I was kind of taken aback by his use of the word phrase, "Normies". He seemed rather below average himself, like he'd need a rather tall jack-stand to elevate himself just to be normal.

 

[Foster Zygote]

I was kind of taken aback by his use of the word phrase, "Normies". He seemed rather below average himself, like he'd need a rather tall jack-stand to elevate himself just to be normal.

Idiots believing that they're exceptionally brilliant is pretty much the foundation of all conspiracy theory cults.

 

[bruto]

I was kind of taken aback by his use of the word phrase, "Normies". He seemed rather below average himself, like he'd need a rather tall jack-stand to elevate himself just to be normal.

It sounds a little like a back-shuffle, like the person touting a lie or a conspiracy making the excuse that they were just putting out the question, just teaching the controversy, etc. He just wanted the normies to do their own research, but what good is that if the sub-normies took it on face value and tried to overthrow the government? It was just entertainment. I sold the parts for the gun. I never thought you'd fire it.

 

[Axxman300]

Idiots believing that they're exceptionally brilliant is pretty much the foundation of all conspiracy theory cults.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Filmmaker says he potentially uncovered man behind QAnon

https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2021/04/06/qanon-identity-hbo-filmmaker-ac360-vpx.cnn

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Here's a slightly more direct link to the Anderson Cooper interview:



Seems credible to me. And the conversation is valuable for other things said.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

It sounds a little like a back-shuffle, like the person touting a lie or a conspiracy making the excuse that they were just putting out the question, just teaching the controversy, etc. He just wanted the normies to do their own research, but what good is that if the sub-normies took it on face value and tried to overthrow the government? It was just entertainment. I sold the parts for the gun. I never thought you'd fire it.

I think it's rather classic that a guy like this would have a really hard time keeping quiet about it.

 

[Cosmic Yak]

I was kind of taken aback by his use of the word phrase, "Normies". He seemed rather below average himself, like he'd need a rather tall jack-stand to elevate himself just to be normal.

'Normies' are what QAnon devotees call everyone outside their cult.
It's yet another silly thing that they haven't thought through, much like the sheep slogan. If we're normal, then they are...what? Abnormal? Crazy? 'Special'?
End of the day, who cares now? The movement has lost its momentum. Those who feel the need will move on to the next paranoid wet dream, but I imagine that Q as a whole is done.

 

[Belz...]

'Normies' are what QAnon devotees call everyone outside their cult.

Really? That sounds more like the Harry Potter term than a badass movement's view of those in on the conspiracy.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

It's the Matrix/Red Pill thing.
The idea being that everyone would be on their side if only the Normies knew what they know.
It's a way to deal with loneliness, I guess.

 

[kookbreaker]

Incels use that term as well.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Not a surprise. It was all a big Afakening. A Storm in a piss pot. Just Ron Watkins goofing around.

Q Accidentally Outed Himself, But QAnon Followers Don’t Care [vice.com]

The question is, was it always Watkins, or did he simply hijack the grift somehow? Stealing other people's websites is kinda his thing, I wouldn't put it past him to try to steal the Q identity from the original creator.

 

[eerok]

The question is, was it always Watkins, or did he simply hijack the grift somehow? Stealing other people's websites is kinda his thing, I wouldn't put it past him to try to steal the Q identity from the original creator.

We'll likely never get all the answers, though I've always suspected that Roger Stone stuck his demented beak in the QAnon crap somewhere along the line. Disinfo is his stock in trade.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

We'll likely never get all the answers, though I've always suspected that Roger Stone stuck his demented beak in the QAnon crap somewhere along the line. Disinfo is his stock in trade.

It's important to note that Q isn't really special other than the fact it caught on. People claiming to be insiders and sharing secret info was a common trope on 4chan. People constantly lied about being Apple/Google employees, federal law enforcement, etc on 4chan and made bold claims about this or that secret project.

I can't recall the exact episode, but the QAA podcast discuses this in one of their interviews with Fredrick Brennan. Brennan himself admits to doing these kinds of "insider anon" trolls in the pre-Q days. It was absolutely routine for people to say they were feds or whatever and had secret info. The whole culture of 4chan is toxic weirdos trying to play tricks on eachother and the wider public.

For whatever reason, Qanon exploded in popularity rather than following the normal track for these anonymous ****-posters. It escaped 4chan into wider mainstream social media, where gullible conservative boomers that were unfamiliar with chan culture swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.

I very much doubt the original Q anon poster was anyone special. In all likelihood, he's just some 4chan ****-poster that managed to land a whale.

 

[eerok]

For whatever reason, Qanon exploded in popularity rather than following the normal track for these anonymous ****-posters.

I think it took off because there were interested parties who pushed it hard. Without wanting to build a conspiracy out of a CT, clearly it'd be in the interest of Russia and the Trump dirty tricksters to do so.

But, yeah, it seems that QAnon was just common toxic 4chan drivel at the outset. I ditched that place many years ago after only a brief look. What a cesspool.

 

[Carlotta]

It's important to note that Q isn't really special other than the fact it caught on. People claiming to be insiders and sharing secret info was a common trope on 4chan. People constantly lied about being Apple/Google employees, federal law enforcement, etc on 4chan and made bold claims about this or that secret project.

I can't recall the exact episode, but the QAA podcast discuses this in one of their interviews with Fredrick Brennan. Brennan himself admits to doing these kinds of "insider anon" trolls in the pre-Q days. It was absolutely routine for people to say they were feds or whatever and had secret info. The whole culture of 4chan is toxic weirdos trying to play tricks on eachother and the wider public.

For whatever reason, Qanon exploded in popularity rather than following the normal track for these anonymous ****-posters. It escaped 4chan into wider mainstream social media, where gullible conservative boomers that were unfamiliar with chan culture swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.

I very much doubt the original Q anon poster was anyone special. In all likelihood, he's just some 4chan ****-poster that managed to land a whale.

Boomers! I'm sick and tired of the repeated mention of boomers in regard to various nut and reactionary movements! I admit I don't know a whole lot of people right now, but none of the boomer contemporaries of my acquaintance is anything but liberal! I've been wanting to say that for a while, thank you.

 

[Trebuchet]

Boomers! I'm sick and tired of the repeated mention of boomers in regard to various nut and reactionary movements! I admit I don't know a whole lot of people right now, but none of the boomer contemporaries of my acquaintance is anything but liberal! I've been wanting to say that for a while, thank you.

Thank you! Very few of the Jan 6 rioters looked like boomers to me. We are, after all, the generation that effectively protested the VietNam war out of existence.

 

[eerok]

Conspiracism has no generational boundaries -- it just takes a mildly pathological level of paranoia and a failure to think things through -- but conspiracists are just the suckers of things like QAnon, and not likely the instigators. My own thought is that Gen X and younger are more likely the toxic, nihilistic jackasses who would've bred and incubated QAnon. These are more the 4chan and Something Awful crowd, largely because the internet came to life during their youth.

Of course, I'm a boomer myself (1954), so I might be biased.

 

[eerok]

Thank you! Very few of the Jan 6 rioters looked like boomers to me. We are, after all, the generation that effectively protested the VietNam war out of existence.

There were boomers there. It's too much of a generalization to imagine that everyone of an age thinks the same way.

 

[Carlotta]

There were boomers there. It's too much of a generalization to imagine that everyone of an age thinks the same way.

Oh, I know. That jerkwad with his feet up...

 

[KDLarsen]

It's important to note that Q isn't really special other than the fact it caught on. People claiming to be insiders and sharing secret info was a common trope on 4chan. People constantly lied about being Apple/Google employees, federal law enforcement, etc on 4chan and made bold claims about this or that secret project.

I can't recall the exact episode, but the QAA podcast discuses this in one of their interviews with Fredrick Brennan. Brennan himself admits to doing these kinds of "insider anon" trolls in the pre-Q days. It was absolutely routine for people to say they were feds or whatever and had secret info. The whole culture of 4chan is toxic weirdos trying to play tricks on eachother and the wider public.

For whatever reason, Qanon exploded in popularity rather than following the normal track for these anonymous ****-posters. It escaped 4chan into wider mainstream social media, where gullible conservative boomers that were unfamiliar with chan culture swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.

I very much doubt the original Q anon poster was anyone special. In all likelihood, he's just some 4chan ****-poster that managed to land a whale.

The original Qanon poster also had the extreme stroke of luck to be posting about "the Storm" just before trump himself made an ass of himself at a press briefing, referencing "the Storm" and then leaving without elaborating on what he meant by that.