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How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon
Pushing the theory on to bigger platforms proved to be the key to Qanons spread and the originators financial gain.
In November 2017, a small-time YouTube video creator and two moderators of the 4chan website, one of the most extreme message boards on the internet, banded together and plucked out of obscurity an anonymous and cryptic post from the many conspiracy theories that populated the website's message board.
Over the next several months, they would create videos, a Reddit community, a business and an entire mythology based off the 4chan posts of Q, the pseudonym of a person claiming to be a high-ranking military officer. The theory they espoused would become Qanon, and it would eventually make its way from those message boards to national media stories and the rallies of President Donald Trump.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-theorists-took-q-sparked-qanon-n900531?fbclid=IwAR1CA4l9cO7Gvu-KY8ZJjTozsn6jG1MBIG3dUsEhVDQaIAOdbVc_v5-t3Zk
Pushing the theory on to bigger platforms proved to be the key to Qanons spread and the originators financial gain.
In November 2017, a small-time YouTube video creator and two moderators of the 4chan website, one of the most extreme message boards on the internet, banded together and plucked out of obscurity an anonymous and cryptic post from the many conspiracy theories that populated the website's message board.
Over the next several months, they would create videos, a Reddit community, a business and an entire mythology based off the 4chan posts of Q, the pseudonym of a person claiming to be a high-ranking military officer. The theory they espoused would become Qanon, and it would eventually make its way from those message boards to national media stories and the rallies of President Donald Trump.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-theorists-took-q-sparked-qanon-n900531?fbclid=IwAR1CA4l9cO7Gvu-KY8ZJjTozsn6jG1MBIG3dUsEhVDQaIAOdbVc_v5-t3Zk
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How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon (Original Post)
cayugafalls
Sep 2020
OP
Hucksters that have helped tear my family apart, including one separation.
callous taoboy
Sep 2020
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callous taoboy
(4,591 posts)1. Hucksters that have helped tear my family apart, including one separation.
I fucking hate Q-anon and their feeble-minded drones.
StClone
(11,690 posts)2. Z-Non!
Wouldn't it be great to start an instantaneous massive Q-Anon rebuttal flow on Social Media and elsewhere directing people to the truth and facts. Call it Z-Non the last word in truth, facts and reality! Point out the out-of-context, lies, fakes, inventions and utter b.s. the Russians/Orange cult spew.
cayugafalls
(5,646 posts)3. That is quite the idea.
It would take some dedicated effort of some like minded individuals.
Very cool idea...
The Magistrate
(95,264 posts)4. That Is A Good Idea, Sir
The name sounds like a Dumont 'wonders of the future' teevee serial, mind, but a great idea, that could be executed well.
StClone
(11,690 posts)5. Z-Non is actually Xenon
The brightest light shining truth: