This is a very long read, but provides incredible insight in how the cult of Q grew its way into "regular" society...
Fascinating. I am a game designer with experience in a very small niche. I create and research games designed to be played in reality. I’ve worked in Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), LARPs, experience fiction, interactive theater, and “serious games”. Stories and games that can start on a computer, and finish in the real world. Fictions designed to feel as real as possible. Games that teach you. Puzzles that come to life all around the players. Games where the deeper you dig, the more you find. Games with rabbit holes that invite you into wonderland and entice you through the looking glass. When I saw QAnon, I knew exactly what it was and what it was doing. I had seen it before. I had almost built it before. It was gaming’s evil twin. A game that plays people. (cue ominous music) QAnon has often been compared to ARGs and LARPs and rightly so. It uses many of the same gaming mechanisms and rewards. It has a game-like feel to it that is evident to anyone who has ever played an ARG, online role-play (RP) or LARP before. The similarities are so striking that it has often been referred to as a LARP or ARG. However this beast is very very different from a game. It is the differences that shed the light on how QAnon works and many of them are hard to see if you’re not involved in game development. QAnon is like the reflection of a game in a mirror, it looks just like one, but it is inverted. Guided Apophenia In one of the very first experience fictions (XF) I ever designed, the players had to explore a creepy basement looking for clues. The object they were looking for was barely hidden and the clue was easy. It was Scooby Doo easy. I definitely expected no trouble in this part of the game. But there was trouble. I didn’t know it then, but its name was APOPHENIA. (CONTINUED......)
And yet you (et al) fell for it hook, line, and sinker! Merge >> http://www.sportstwo.com/posts/5076955/
So whats the truth in that there's a pizza place that was the secret HQ for a pedophile ring? or that JFK Jr is still alive and was going to be Trumps VP? or that the mass shootings at schools, malls, churches (etc) were just staged hoaxes? What exactly is the kernel of truth in these conspiracies, and furthermore, how many more false theories does qanon need to spread, before you call it bullshit? The answer my friend, is blowing out your ass, the answer is blowing out your ass....
LMAOOOOOOOOOO As Biden finally took office, however, the mood changed quickly on QAnon forums. QAnon channels on messaging app Telegram filled with gifs of far-right mascot Pepe the Frog crying, as believers claimed they had been duped. Believers said they felt sick, or wanted to throw up. “Trump fooled us,” complained one Telegram commenter. “All my family and co-workers think I’m crazy,” wrote another. “I feel stupid,” wrote a third. Even major QAnon boosters saw their faith in the bizarre conspiracy theory shaken on Monday. QAnon booster Roy Davis co-authored a bestselling book promoting QAnon under the alias “Captain Roy,” even getting his sports car painted with a giant, blazing “Q” on the hood. As Biden was sworn in, Davis initially told The Daily Beast he didn’t want to comment until he was sure Biden was really president. But as Biden’s new title became official , Davis said he was ready to move on from Q — something his doctor has long urged him to do anyway. “We misinterpreted it,” Davis said. “Maybe we should have done something different.”
So when is Mags gonna report to us from the Mar A Lago bunker about the provisional Trump government in exile......???
'What happened to the coup?' QAnon and Co in crisis as Biden is sworn in without the violent Trump 'storm' they were expecting to foil handover at the last minute - as one lonesome MAGA fan outside NY State house holds out to the end QAnon believers took to right-wing online chat groups on Wednesday to express disappointment Trump wasn't going to seize a second term They were shocked to find their belief in the conspiracy that top Democrats would be arrested for a sex trafficking ring was not going to materialize Message boards descended into crisis mode with some questioning 'where's the damn storm?' and others saying 'we all got played' Ron Watkins, who was the administrator of QAnon's preferred message board 8kun, also pulled the plug and urged followers to return to their lives In a dramatic reversal, some members of the far-right Proud Boys even started turning on Trump in chat groups and message boards, declaring him a 'total failure' and 'extraordinarily weak' Their disbelief came as a lone MAGA supporter, Mark Leggiero, 28, was spotted outside the New York state Capitol He said he had been expecting thousands of other Trump fans to be there in protest over Biden's inauguration Others were also spotted outside state Capitol buildings in Utah and Arizona, which was a stark contrast to the violent scenes outside the US Capitol on January 6 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9168995/QAnon-followers-crisis-Joe-Biden-sworn-in.html