How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon
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How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon
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.
Now, the people behind that effort are at the center of a fractious debate
among conspiracy enthusiasts, some of whom believe the three people who
first popularized the Qanon theory are promoting it in order to make a
living. Others suggest that these original followers actually wrote Q’s
mysterious posts.
NBC News has found that the theory can be traced back to three people
who sparked some of the first conversation about Qanon and, in doing
so, attracted followers who they then asked to help fund Qanon
“research.”
The whole article is worth a read. It pretty thoroughly discusses how one person (who may or may not be either one of the current three conspirators leading QAnon or an accidentally extremely successful left-leaning troll) accidentally spawned a massive movement among the alt-right, spurred on by a small handful of people building it up for attention, money, and power.
everyone knows q is a boomer larp, stale news
Sounds like ladies and gentlemen we got em
Still, Qanon skeptics have pointed to two videos as evidence that Rogers had insider knowledge of Q’s account. One archived livestream appears to show Rogers logging into the 8chan account of “Q.”The Patriots’ Soapbox feed quickly cuts out after the login attempt. “Sorry, leg cramp,” Rogers says, before the feed reappears seconds later.
Users in the associated chatroom begin to wonder if Rogers had accidentally revealed his identity as Q. “How did you post as Q?” one user wrote.
In another livestreamed video, Rogers begins to analyze a supposed “Q” post on his livestream program when his co-host points out that the post in question doesn’t actually appear on Q’s feed and was authored anonymously. Rogers’ explanation — that Q must have forgotten to sign in before posting — was criticized as extremely unlikely by people familiar with the message boards, as it would require knowledge of the posting to pick it out among hundreds of other anonymous ones.
Reminds me of the stand alone complex from ghost in the shell
4chan website, one of the most extreme message boards
on the internet
gah
It's just /pol/ /r9k/ and /b/ which are shit hives, the rest is like facepunch or reddit
If 4chan is extreme because of pol, then facepunch is extreme because of oify and reddit is extreme because of the donald
4chan has had this reputation of being like some darkweb den of cybercrime ever since they trolled Oprah Winfrey and Fox News back around 2008-ish.
Idunno man, /v/ and /tv/ turn into cesspits rather frequently. The whole theory of a "Containment board" is a load of crap because all it's done is allowed /pol/ shitheads a staging area from which they can shit on other boards or threads with impunity.
Why do people keep pushing this idea that 4chan isn't toxic outside of the big three when it's easily disproven within three minutes of visiting a thread on virtually any board?
The "containment boards" certainly don't contain very well.
Well, the smaller boards are calmer because normal discussion can take place
it's /pol/ and /r9k/ that keep leaking out and shitting up the rest of the site. /mlp/ actually contains that filth
That's because ponystuff is actively banned for if it's posted outside of /mlp/, partly the same with /trash/ content. /pol/shit and robot shit are ostensibly banned too, but there's so much of it and most of the mods care so little (or agree with it) that most of it squeezes through anyways.
what does /r9k/ even do again, is it like over 9 k or something, a meme board or some shit
I think it's got some algorithm to prevent reposts, so it's all OC. But in practice it's just a cess pit
and the idea came from xkcd's randall munroe of all places
ROBOT9000 and #xkcd
tfw ugly
tfw incel
tfw hate roasties
tfw i wish i could be chad
and occasionally sperg posting about how normies are npcs or sociopaths
I thought everyone but me was an NPC though
beta uprising
All images and text must be unique, which is why there are 8 billion people variants.
/his/ and /int/? Are you kidding me? /his/ was good for about 5 minutes before the confederate apologists and neo nazis showed up, and while they're fought with moreso than other boards, most people gave up on that board to seek greener pastures where their thread won't be shit up by some troll running in to scream about the ZOG plot to breed out the white race using cultural diversity in movies.
And /int/ is overrun with nationalism and racism. /a/ is more or less the only board that hasn't sunk down, if only because they're the only board that can regularly stay on topic. Even /tg/ devolves into shit, particularly when worldbuilding/culture/history threads pop up and the /pol/tards rear their ugly heads.
tfw you will never create a shitty story that middle aged people will eat up like hotcakes and cause some of them to tape 4chan posts to their car
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/2246/4b359fb0-a54b-4fb8-bbdb-fa0c882e3072/image.png
It would be funny, if it weren't so sad.
I seriously wonder how many of the far-right text-to-speech conspiracy videos my grandmother watches were spawned by this bullshit.
/jp/ is the only good board
One of my buddies at work is really into this Q stuff, I tried to explain to him that you shouldn't take shit from 4chan's /pol/ or any chan's /pol/ board seriously because most the folks that browse those boards are just trying to psych people out either for laughs or because they legit believe the retarded shit they say. Also explained that 4chan is famous for hoaxes and wildly elaborate pranks, and that I wouldn't be surprised if all this Q shit was one of those pranks that simply went too far or got hijacked by people who took it too far.
