Wait, so the QAnon thing had a sort of headquarters at 8chan?

[ck4829]

It's weird they were actually looking for a "deep state" conspiracy involving child rape and human trafficking which apparently involves crisis actors, Hollywood actors, politicians, Democrats, government officials, bureaucrats, George Soros, je-"globalists", etc... when they could have just looked a few boards away from them and seen all the child rape and human trafficking.

During 2018, a user that referred to himself as "Q" gained attention and promoted conspiracy theories about the deep state, eventually leading to an international movement. Sean Hannity has retweeted QAnon hashtags on his Twitter feed.[33][34][35] The original group of Q followers on Reddit were banned on March 14, 2018, over their promotion of the theory.[36] They quickly regrouped into a new subreddit, which featured posts from Q and other anonymous posters on 8chan in a more reader-friendly format. The subreddit was banned[37] for a second time on September 12, 2018.[38] With a flood of new users on the board, Q asked Ron to upgrade the website's servers in order to accommodate all of the board's website traffic on September 19, 2018.[39]

The movement has been linked with the Pizzagate conspiracy theory. The Q movement has also been linked to the hashtags #TheGreatAwakening and #WWG1WGA,[40] which stands for "where we go one, we go all"; it's also sometimes linked with the phrase "Follow the White Rabbit"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8chan#QAnon

The Washington Post described it as "the more-lawless, more-libertarian, more 'free' follow-up to 4chan."[15] Boards have been created to discuss topics such as child rape. While the sharing of illegal content is against site rules, The Daily Dot wrote that boards do exist to share sexualized images of minors in provocative poses, and that some users of those boards do post links to explicit child pornography hosted elsewhere.[9] When asked whether such boards were an inevitable result of free speech, Brennan responded, "Unfortunately, yes. I don’t support the content on the boards you mentioned, but it is simply the cost of free speech and being the only active site to not impose more 'laws' than those that were passed in Washington, D.C."[9]

In August 2015, 8chan was blacklisted from Google Search for what Google described as content constituting "suspected child abuse content."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8chan#Child_pornography

Just wow.

[melman]

1. Yeah, it's interesting

I was looking at the 8chan admin's twitter which I won't link here, but it's @CodeMonkeyZ if anyone wants to see it..and I was surprised because I just imagined their user base being very young, but a lot of people commenting were older "Q" people.

[PandoraAwakened]

2. Actually...

Pull back the curtain of nearly every white nationalist, neo-Nazi, and crazy conspiracy site, and you will find old white men sitting in their comfortable homes churning out hate fiction in a concerted effort to recruit vulnerable young white men into carrying out their own sick wet dreams.

[Midnight Writer]

3. I ordered some Q books so when the fascists take over I can act like one of them.

[ck4829]

4. Yeah, they'll be the first to be executed by fascists if they were to take over

Remember the birther movement? The fascists discredited their own conspiracy theory when they came close to power.

It will happen again. QAnon is a means to an end, nothing more.