‘We All Got Played’: QAnon Followers Implode After Big Moment Never Comes

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2021/01/20/we-all-got-played-qanon-followers-implode-after-big-moment-never-comes/?sh=1bc1ee293a06

 

 

KEY FACTS

QAnon adherents appeared to have fractured into two groups on popular far-right message boards Wednesday, with some realizing their crackpot conspiracy theory was a fraud, while others tried to somehow keep the flame of the Crazy Candle alive.

Ron Watkins, the founder of 8chan who is one of several people suspected of being the anonymous poster “Q” who spawned the conspiracy theory, conceded shortly after Biden was sworn in, telling his supporters it was time for believers to keep their “chins up” and “go back to our lives.”

Up until the final minute of Trump’s presidency, some QAnon adherents were cheering for Trump to do something spectacular, with one instructing fellow followers Wednesday morning to “pray” because the next five hours would “determine the fate of the world.” They got that part right.

That optimism unraveled for some as the day wore on, especially after Trump gave no hints of a plan to take over the U.S. in his final speech at Joint Base Andrews, with one user lamenting on Telegram that “it simply doesn’t make sense that we all got played.”

Moderators of some pro-QAnon message boards warned followers who turned their backs on the conspiracy theory after the inauguration would be banned:

[Steeleballz 7,550]

  Sounds like somebody is gaslighting somebody else with some old fashioned gaslighting styled gaslighting.

[Prizm123 1,086]

they deserve all of it

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

It's too bad I wasn't browsing the forums when I came across a tweet from a prominent Q blue checkmark maintaining that Trump was still going to win the Presidency even after Biden's inauguration. 

 

I think it's a mixture of grifting and the sports idealism (seen a lot more in sports like hockey) where people psych themselves out thinking unwavering confidence equals outcome (sometimes described as good/bad "juju"). I can't imagine people that into this sort of thing are all "there", so to speak.

Edited January 22, 2021 by Burnt Reynolds

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Stand back....

 

 

A Total Failure’: The Proud Boys Now Mock Trump

Members of the far-right group, who were among Donald Trump’s staunchest fans, are calling him “weak” as more of them were charged for storming the U.S. Capitol.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/technology/proud-boys-trump.html

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

This is what an environment with excessive focus on persona brings. Their obsession is as sociopathic as those with TDS. They'll get over it.. one day. 

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9 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

  Sounds like somebody is gaslighting somebody else with some old fashioned gaslighting styled gaslighting.

That is some 3d chess right there!

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Name:

thedonald.winURL Checked:

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Thedonald.win is DOWN for everyone.

It is not just you. The server is not responding...

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

39 minutes ago, CanAm1980 said:

 

Name:

thedonald.winURL Checked:

no responseResponse Time:

more than a weekDown For:

DOWN

Thedonald.win is DOWN for everyone.

It is not just you. The server is not responding...

When you figure it out let us know. 

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1 hour ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

When you figure it out let us know. 

Not my site , not my circus.

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

2 hours ago, CanAm1980 said:

Not my site , not my circus.

And yet you brought it here. Helpful hint: The site isn't down.

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2 hours ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

And yet you brought it here. Helpful hint: The site isn't down.

Yeah, I am sure the new site is fit for purpose

 

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

27 minutes ago, CanAm1980 said:

Yeah, I am sure the new site is fit for purpose

 

I see a purpose indeed, and one that's failing big time.

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Will deplatforming make QAnon and the far-right fade away or radicalise further?

 

 

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But as the new Commander-in-Chief calls for an end to "this uncivil war", there are big questions around what happens to QAnon and the rest of the far-right — where does the pent-up and frustrated energy of that movement go?

"We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue," said Joe Biden in his inauguration speech.(Reuters: Andrew Harnik)

This is a political question, but also a tech one.

Having delayed action for years, tech companies were decisive after the Capitol was stormed. They quickly removed, banned or effectively took offline large chunks of the far-right internet. This action is now called the 'Great Deplatforming'.

But will QAnon followers and other Trump supporters linger in an online netherworld of 'alt-tech' chat forums?

Will they vanish or — concentrated in these small private groups — be radicalised further?

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-01-22/will-deplatformed-far-right-qanon-fade-away-or-radicalise/13079822

[Dashinka 24,735]

So Q or whatever was betrayed by Trump?  Sounds serious.