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For the uniformed: At least, long ago, in the beginning of 4chan, nobody believed this. They purposely made it up for fun and trolling. I seriously don't unders
by s5300 6y ago
For the uniformed: At least, long ago, in the beginning of 4chan, nobody believed this. They purposely made it up for fun and trolling. I seriously don't understand how there are some people unaware of this.
They then purposely pushed it from 4chan to places it would be believed, other forms of social media like Facebook.
The general populace (of social media users) are the ones who eat it up. They eat shit up from an anonymous image board that has always said that
"The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
tl:dr "civil" society has quite literally proved it's simply not ready for the internet. Wonder if this will go down as the Great Filter.
- amiga_500 6y agoMy hunch is every single qanon story is just that, a story. I would imagine groups of students have competitions to come up with the most absurdly plausible story, with the winner able to perceive the odd conspiratorial mindset that so many in the USA seem to have. When a story goes viral they are laughing in some private chat room. Watching the movie Slackers (2002) recently was eye opening. You'd think this weird conspiracy thing was recent, but Slackers shows it predated the mass adoption of the internet. I find it hard to imagine where this ends.