QAnon – Jews don’t like QAnon

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[I don't think much of QAnon. I had wondered if they are some kind of Government Operation, but it seems not. I don't see them as being hard core Whites and I'm not really sure who exactly they are. But they at least seem to irritate the Jews a lot. Jan]

Here’s the start of a wikipedia article about them. The article is insanely long and might be of use to people. If anyone ever finds out more about QAnon, I’d be curious – if there is a video or documentary about them.

This is what is Wikipedia says:

QAnon[a] (/ˈkjuːənɒn/ KYOO-ə-non, /ˈkjuːænɒn/ KYOO-a-non) is an American political conspiracy theory and political movement. It originated in the American far-right political sphere in 2017.[1] QAnon centers on fabricated claims made by an anonymous individual or individuals known as "Q". Those claims have been relayed, developed and supplemented by numerous communities and influencers associated with the movement.

The core QAnon conspiracy theory is that a cabal of Satanic,[2][3][4]cannibalistic sexual abusers of children operating a global child sex trafficking ring conspired against former U.S. President Donald Trump during his term in office.[8] The QAnon conspiracy theory has direct roots in Pizzagate, an Internet conspiracy theory that appeared one year earlier; it also incorporates elements of many other theories.[9] Some experts have described QAnon as a cult.[10][11]

Followers of the conspiracy theorists say that the Trump administration secretly fought the cabal of pedophiles, and would conduct mass arrests and executions of thousands of cabal members on a day known as "the Storm" or "the Event".[12] QAnon conspiracy believers have named Democratic politicians, Hollywood actors, high-ranking government officials, business tycoons, and medical experts as members of the cabal.[13] QAnon has also claimed that Trump stimulated the conspiracy of Russian interference in the 2016 United States presidential election to enlist Robert Mueller to join him in exposing the sex trafficking ring, and to prevent a coup d’état by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and George Soros.[14][15] QAnon is described as antisemitic or rooted in antisemitic tropes, due to its fixation on Jewish financier George Soros and conspiracy theories about the Rothschild family, a frequent target of antisemites.[16][17]

Although it has its origins in older conspiracy theories, the first post by Q was in October 2017 on the anonymous imageboard website 4chan. Q claimed to be a high-level government official with Q clearance, who had access to classified information involving the Trump administration and its opponents in the United States.[18] Q soon moved to 8chan, making it QAnon’s online home.[19] Q’s often cryptic posts became known as "drops", which were later collected by aggregator apps and websites.

The conspiracy theory expanded into a viral phenomenon and quickly went beyond Internet culture, becoming familiar among the general population and turning into a real political movement. QAnon followers began to appear at Trump reelection campaign rallies in August 2018,[20] and Trump amplified QAnon accounts on Twitter through his retweets.[21] QAnon’s conspiracy theories have also been relayed by Russian and Chinese state-backed media companies, social media troll accounts,[26][22][27] and the far-right Falun Gong-associated Epoch Media Group.[33]

Since its emergence in American politics, QAnon has spawned movements around the world. The exact number of QAnon adherents is unclear,[4][34] but the group maintains a large online following.[3][4] After increased scrutiny of the movement and its hashtags, mainstream social media companies such as Twitter[35] and Facebook[36] began taking action to stop the spread of the conspiracy theory.

QAnon followers have perpetrated acts of violence on numerous occasions.[37] Members of the movement actively took part in the 2020 United States presidential election, during which they supported Trump’s campaign and waged information warfare in an attempt to influence voters.[38][39] After Joe Biden won, they were involved in efforts to overturn the results of the election. Several associates of Trump, such as General Michael Flynn[43] and two members of his legal team, Lin Wood[48] and Sidney Powell,[54] have promoted QAnon-derived conspiracy theories. When these tactics failed, Trump supporters – many of them QAnon followers – attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The Capitol attack was a watershed moment for QAnon and led to a further, more sustained social media crackdown on the movement and its claims.[55][56]

Background

Pizzagate

Main article: Pizzagate conspiracy theory

Protester advancing the Pizzagate conspiracy theory

According to QAnon researcher Mike Rothschild, "while Q has a number of precursor conspiracy theories and scams… no conspiracy theory feeds more immediately into Q than Pizzagate".[57] Pizzagate began in March 2016 with a leak of Clinton campaigner John Podesta‘s emails, which promoters of the theory believed contained a secret code detailing child sexual abuse.[58] Pizzagate followers said that high-profile Democrats were sexually abusing children at a Washington, D.C. pizzeria, which led to an armed attack on the establishment by a gunman who believed the conspiracy theory.[59]

The allegations of child sexual abuse and the centrality of the Clinton family to this abuse became a key part of the QAnon belief system,[58] but in time the Clintons’ centrality to this was de-emphasized in favor of more general conspiratorial claims of an alleged worldwide elite of child sex-traffickers.[60] Q has referred to Pizzagate claims without using the term.[58] QAnon followers often used the hashtag #SaveTheChildren to promote the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.[61] This has caused protests from the unrelated non-governmental organization Save the Children.[62]

Influence of 4chan culture

The investigative journalism website Bellingcat has called /htg/ or "Human Trafficking General" threads on the /pol/ board of 4chan "the missing link" between Pizzagate and QAnon. Instead of focusing on a limited supply of email material to comb through, the /htg/ culture allowed users to actively participate in the imagined storylines. A key /htg/ poster was Anonymous 5 (also known as "Frank"), who claimed to be a child prostitution investigator. But the lack of a coherent narrative was a constraint on the /htg/ trend, and it never achieved Pizzagate’s popularity.[63]

The main tenets of the QAnon ideology were already present at 4chan before Q’s appearance, including claims that Hillary Clinton was directly involved in a pedophile ring, that Robert Mueller was secretly working with Trump, and that large-scale military tribunals were imminent. His posts specifically targeted individuals who were highly hated in the community beforehand, namely Clinton, Barack Obama, and George Soros. Bellingcat says that the idea of the "Storm" was copied from another poster named Victory of the Light, who predicted the "Event", in which mass, televised arrests of the "Cabal" were forthcoming.[63]

Previous "anons"

In its most basic sense, an "anon" is an anonymous or pseudonymous Internet poster.[64] The concept of anons "doing research" and claiming to disclose otherwise classified information, while a key component of the QAnon conspiracy theory, is by no means exclusive to it. Q was preceded by so-called anons who also claimed to have special government access. On July 2, 2016, the anonymous poster "FBIAnon", a self-described "high-level analyst and strategist" who claimed to have "intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the Clinton case", began posting false information about the 2016 investigation into the Clinton Foundation and claimed that Hillary Clinton would be imprisoned if Trump became president. Around that time, "HLIAnon", standing for "High-Level Insider Anon", hosted long question-and-answer sessions, dispensing various conspiracy theories, including that Princess Diana was murdered after trying to stop the September 11 attacks. Soon after the 2016 United States elections, two anonymous posters, "CIAAnon" and "CIAIntern", falsely claimed to be high-ranking Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers, and in late August 2017, "WHInsiderAnon" offered a supposed preview that something that was "going to go down" regarding leaks that would affect the Democratic Party.[65]

Origin and spread

A 4chan user named "Q Clearance Patriot" first appeared on the site’s /pol/ board on October 28, 2017, posting in a thread titled "Calm Before the Storm",[1] a phrase Trump had previously used to describe a gathering of American military leaders he attended.[1] "The Storm" later became QAnon parlance for an imminent event in which thousands of alleged suspects would be arrested, imprisoned, and executed for being child-eating pedophiles.[12] The poster’s username implied that they held Q clearance,[66][67] a United States Department of Energy security clearance required to access Top Secret information on nuclear weapons and materials.[68]

A pro-Trump protester wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with a common QAnon logo, at the "Stop the Steal" rally on November 14, 2020

Q’s first post said that Hillary Clinton was about to be arrested, which would cause massive unrest and be followed by numerous other arrests. A second message was posted a few hours later, saying that Clinton was being "detained" though not arrested yet and that Trump was planning to remove "criminal rogue elements". The post also alluded cryptically to George Soros, Huma Abedin, and Operation Mockingbird.[69]

Many other messages followed; Q’s activity surged in November, with most posts expanding upon previous theories about Hillary Clinton. Other conspiracy theories were later added, notably involving Barack Obama, Saudi Arabia, and Iran.[70] An Internet community soon developed around interpreting and analyzing posts attributed to Q, and several of these conspiracy theorists became minor celebrities within the community.[71][72] Followers started looking for "clues" that would confirm their beliefs, including in the most commonplace phrases and occurrences: in November 2017, Trump sipping water from a bottle was interpreted as a secret sign that the mass arrests would soon take place.[73]

Though QAnon immediately integrated Pizzagate’s theory of secret child sex-trafficking rings operated by the elite, it went much further by implying a worldwide cabal and by incorporating elements from various other conspiracies. One of the earlier rumors QAnon followers spread was that such figures as Hillary Clinton, her daughter Chelsea, and Senator John McCain had already been arrested and indicted, and were wearing ankle monitoring bracelets during their public appearances.[73] In the following months, the QAnon community helped spread other rumors such as the "Frazzledrip" theory, which purported the existence of a "snuff" video showing Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin murdering a child, drinking her blood and taking turns wearing the skin from her face as a mask.[74][75]

In November 2017, two 4chan moderators, Paul Furber (also known as "BaruchtheScribe",[65] a South African conspiracy theorist with an interest in U.S. politics)[76] and Coleman Rogers (also known as "Pamphlet Anon"),[65] worked with YouTuber Tracy Diaz to promote QAnon to a wider audience.[77][78] This involved setting up the r/CBTS_Stream subreddit, where subscribers came to talk about QAnon. The subreddit was permanently closed in March 2018 due to incitement of violence and posting private information.[65] QAnon spread to other social media, including Twitter and YouTube.[71] Rogers and his wife, Christina Urso, launched Patriots’ Soapbox, a YouTube livestream dedicated to QAnon, which they used to solicit donations. U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert was a guest on the channel.[77]

Also in November 2017, posts by Q moved to 8chan, with Q citing concerns that the 4chan board had been "infiltrated".[65] Thereafter, Q posted only on 8chan.[19] In August 2019, 8chan was shut down after it was connected with the El Paso shooting and other violent incidents. Followers of QAnon then moved to Endchan, until 8chan was restored under the name 8kun.[79][39]

Vice President Mike Pence with Broward County SWAT team members, on November 30, 2018; the man on the left wears …

… a "Q" patch (close-up) used by followers of QAnon[b]—the deputy was reprimanded and removed from the SWAT team as a result. The photo was tweeted, removed, and then replaced in Pence’s feed.[80]

QAnon first received attention from the mainstream press in November 2017; Newsweek called it "Pizzagate on steroids".[73] Gossip columnist Liz Crokin, a Pizzagate follower, was one of the first public figures to embrace QAnon and became one of the movement’s most prominent influencers.[81] Television host Sean Hannity and entertainer Roseanne Barr spread the news about it to their social media followers in early 2018 and the conspiracy theory gained traction on the mainstream right. At this time, InfoWars host and far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed to be in personal contact with Q. This led to the presence en masse of QAnon followers at a July 2018 Trump rally for the midterm elections in Tampa, Florida, the first visible presence of the QAnon movement at Trump rallies.[82] Some Christian pastors introduced their congregations to QAnon ideas. The Indiana-based Omega Kingdom Ministry tried to combine QAnon and Christianity, with Q posts and Bible quotes both read during church services.[83] Some Christians, such as pastor Derek Kubilus, call QAnon heresy,[84] but most U.S. pastors have not taken a stand against it.[85] More generally, QAnon’s rise coincided with increasing radicalization and violent episodes in American far-right movements.[86]

QAnon-related merchandise was widely available on Amazon‘s online marketplace in 2018.[87]QAnon: An Invitation to the Great Awakening, a book said to be authored by a group of 12 QAnon followers, neared the top of Amazon’s bestsellers list in 2019, possibly through algorithmic manipulation.[88][89] Also in 2019, QAnon blogger Neon Revolt (an alias of former aspiring screenwriter Robert Cornero Jr.) self-published the book Revolution Q: The Story of QAnon and the 2nd American Revolution, which became an influential text among the QAnon community and was also distributed by Amazon.[90] In 2020, Politico noted that 100 titles associated with QAnon were available on Amazon Marketplace, in many different languages and with generally positive reviews.[91] QAnon-related merchandise was also available on Etsy and Teespring, and pages relating to the conspiracy theory were on Patreon and GoFundMe.[92]

Sites dedicated to aggregating the Q posts, also called "drops"[93] or "Q drops",[94][79] became essential for their dissemination and spread. QMap was the most popular and famous aggregator, run by a pseudonymous developer and overall key QAnon figure known as "QAPPANON".[95][96] QMap shut down shortly after the British fact-checking organization Logically published a September 2020 report[97] that theorized that QAPPANON was a New Jersey-based security analyst named Jason Gelinas.[96][98] Multiple online communities were created around QAnon: in 2020, Facebook conducted an internal investigation that revealed that the social network hosted thousands of QAnon-themed groups and pages, with millions of members and followers.[99]

According to Reuters, Russian-backed social media accounts promoted QAnon claims as early as November or December 2017.[24] In 2018, Time magazine called Q one of the 25 most influential people on the Internet.[100]Russian government-funded Russian state media such as RT and Sputnik have amplified the conspiracy theory since 2019, citing QAnon as evidence that the United States is riven by internal strife and division.[22] In 2021, a report from the Soufan Center, a research group focused on national security, found that one-fifth of 166,820 QAnon posts in the United States between January 2020 and February 2021 originated in foreign countries, primarily Russia and China, and that China was the "primary foreign actor touting QAnon-narratives online".[27][101][102] The far-right Falun Gong-associated Epoch Media Group, including The Epoch Times, has also been a major promoter of the conspiracy theory.[33]

University of Southern California professor and data scientist Emilio Ferrara found that about 25% of accounts that use QAnon hashtags, retweet InfoWars, or had retweeted One America News Network were bots.[103]

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Here’s the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon