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The real hilarious conspiracy is how the media latches onto these troll communities with breathless reporting. One of the founding beliefs of the "movement" is

The real hilarious conspiracy is how the media latches onto these troll communities with breathless reporting. One of the founding beliefs of the "movement" is that birds aren't real, they're government drones. I can't wait until The New Yorker is telling me about how a new dangerous cult is worshiping meme magic and praising at the altar of Kek. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if that's already happened. It reminds me of when the NYTimes caught wind of the NPC meme* and their initial reporting was along the lines of "ARE THESE RUSSIAN BOTS? IS OUR DEMOCRACY BEING ATTACKED?." No you out of touch ivory tower fools, it's kids in their 20s with too much time on their hands who love the attention you give them. As a side note, I know someone who fell deep into the gamergate hole as it was happening and then realized how toxic it was and did a complete 180. Now they spend all their time arguing with conspiracy theorists on the internet about how their logic is faulty. There's a certain type of person that is susceptible to this kind of stuff in general, for or against. *https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/us/politics/npc-twitter-ban.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/us/politics/npc-twitter-b...

MrDresden 6y ago
My sentiment as well. This was an overly too deep a dive into an otherwise uninteresting subgroup. An article 8th its length would have sufficed.
- akhilcacharya 6y ago
  Its important because there's at least 1 QAnon supporter that's going to be walking the halls of congress next year.
  - MrDresden 6y ago
    And the US seems to have a supporter already sitting in the oval office. Frankly this group is not interesting. It is just another group of conspiracy theorists that are spewing out a even more ill defined and crazy theory than most have before. What would be more interesting to look into is why they are getting traction with people that previously were seemingly well informed ([n=1] the man in the article that had watched CNN for years before switching). That is more important. Why is it happening more and more that people get sucked into these 'obviously' lunatic groups and beliefs, and what can be done to make sure it doesn't happen. Deep diving into the nitty gritty of the posting history of this Q person was way too much detail that did little to nothing for the article in my opinion.

MrDresden 6y ago

My sentiment as well. This was an overly too deep a dive into an otherwise uninteresting subgroup. An article 8th its length would have sufficed.

akhilcacharya 6y ago
Its important because there's at least 1 QAnon supporter that's going to be walking the halls of congress next year.
- MrDresden 6y ago
  And the US seems to have a supporter already sitting in the oval office. Frankly this group is not interesting. It is just another group of conspiracy theorists that are spewing out a even more ill defined and crazy theory than most have before. What would be more interesting to look into is why they are getting traction with people that previously were seemingly well informed ([n=1] the man in the article that had watched CNN for years before switching). That is more important. Why is it happening more and more that people get sucked into these 'obviously' lunatic groups and beliefs, and what can be done to make sure it doesn't happen. Deep diving into the nitty gritty of the posting history of this Q person was way too much detail that did little to nothing for the article in my opinion.