173
Is QAnon still a thing?
(lemmy.ca)
Edit: I did not write this, but I cannot explain it better.
Wow… I’m not sure I’ve ever seen something so…. Profound- on 4chan.
This is actually 8kun, a website for those who thought 4chan was too mild.
Good god. What have we done!
It'd be genuinely moving, if it was about anything else. The last hold outs of a wilder Internet? I'd cry. A bunch of dipshits clinging desperately to a storm of nonsense? Only tears that'd come from that is if i laughed too hard.
I can still feel it when I think the vast majority of these people are vulnerable individuals who have been led to be believe they're being victimized. Things like QAnon provide a the right-wing equivalent of a safe space and community for them.
It's got to be tough seeing it slowly tumble away.
Well said!
The last hold outs of a wilder Internet?
In a way they are. They just also serve as a reminder of why not too many people want that wild internet anymore.
There was a time when all the best stuff, the most enlightened, the most accurate, the best analysis of society as a whole, the memes all came from 4chan.
The problem was that it was full of pure shit too.
I'll live and die by the need for freedom of speech and anonymity in discourse at least in a lot of places. Because its far to valuable without it. But now people are too weak to even handle someone telling then to go kill themselves so they can't hand all the other shit.
The prime of the Internet is gone forever. We rapidly moving into corporate 1984.
Don’t forget the people with active unmanaged mental illness. They will 100% believe in their delusional thoughts and won’t have the insight to know that they’re ill.
Yes, but that subculture has always been there, looking to latch on to the next new obsession or more aptly for the obsession to latch on to them. In fact, in some ways it used to be kind of quaint to read some truly off the wall posts from the ancient days of r/conspiracy circa 2008 where the lines blurred and you didn't quite know if you were witnessing unadulterated, unchecked madness or the well rehearsed LARPing of some terminally online troglodyte.
Then all of a sudden it turned into this entirely different thing where it became clear to me at least that there was a loosely organized group of people with severely warped and nihilistic ambitions that were attempting to bridge the gap and conduct a social experiment where they wanted to see how far their weaponized autism could infect into the real world. The answer was all the way to the president of the United States. It was both strange and fascinating. Maybe we will all be so lucky that it will just be left as some obscure footnote of history, but I doubt it. The systemic realities that lead to Q are still there, and future versions of this kind of parasitic mind viruse will be much worse as technology continues to improve. What it will look like, I don't know, but I'm not eager to find out either.
One hell of a reality check post there that they needed
I feel like a just read a verbal atomization
What's a 'bread?' Thanks in advance.
Q would leave breadcrumbs, because he needed to be as vague as possible to sound like he knew what was going to happen, right? The people who would interpret those breadcrumbs were called bakers. Yes, I know breadcrumbs are from bread that's already been baked, but that's what they decided to call themselves to create an Us vs Them feel. So the "bread" in this image means there are things to be interpreted or reinterpreted yet.
It just means "thread" my guy
kinda miss 4chan sometimes. btw if you're trying to censor the slurs, you missed one (the one for "newbie", though I'm enough of an oldfag to know that's just how 4chan talks)
"Breads need baked", I cannot argue with this logic.
Can you tell me what 'bread' means? Thanks
Thread
It was always a russian influence operation. That effort is probably spent on another operation atm.
I don’t think it started that way, but I’m sure literally everyone (Russian troll farm included) got in on the action eventually.
It was a LARP that got jacked by Jim and Ron Watkins. Of course the Russians did everything they could to spread and benefit from QAnon, but, no, they didn't start it.
They do seem to be quieter after Russia got isolated as a result of their war.
Or maybe it happened after the Jan6 arrests and convictions.
Hard to tell an exact date
I still can't believe anyone fell for that, it was literally a joke on 4chan. Literally some random people on 4chan thought it would be funny and started making up the most unbelievable shit and people thought it was real. If you don't believe me just look up some of the conspiracy theories and tell me they didn't start as a joke made up by /pol/tards.
Totally agree. It is/was completely baffling how anyone fell for it.
It even says on the website that everything posted is satire and only an idiot would think it's real. Pretty much in those words too, and that shit was all over the news and everything.
Alot of these conservative “movements” come and go pretty quickly, seemingly overnight, as soon as they’ve fulfilled whatever use they had. They’ll pop up to rant & rave and grab headlines for whatever idiotic/heartless/cruel thing. Then, after a few waves of outrage and meme counter-attacks, when the spotlight is starting to fade, it’s like whatever group originally funded them pulls the plug and they just sort of disappear.
I’ve never seen any as…. influential as them though. As shitty as they are/were, in my mind, it’s never been that bad before.
They seemed to have gotten a lot of boost from the pandemic beyond what they normally would’ve all with a satanic panic style outrage
That's odd, because I remember their height as the 2016 election through (maybe) 2019.
Pandemic helped bring in more of the left leaning granola folks than would usually happen. Antivax and antilockdown to Q-anon pipeline.
They don't disappear, the people still exist. They just change the justification for their actions. They can't say out loud their real motivation: they desire a hierarchy where they are on top and others are below them.
Just remember that. It's not about democracy or freedom or even religion or the economy. Conservatives want to be on top. They want an authoritarian leader to put everyone in their place. Do not argue with them about policy details. They value hierarchy more than anything.
Most of what they were talking about had something to do with the Trump presidency. That is long over by now, it has now become clear to everyone that Biden isn't going to be replaced by Trump except through an election.
They became absorbed by the republican party who tempered the insanity (though still clearly insane) so that they could keep some semblance of normalcy to retain followers.
It's still going although it's morphed quite a bit. Check out https://reddit.com/r/qanoncasualties to see the effects.
https://www.qanonanonymous.com/
Here's a dope podcast that follows Q related stuff critically. The back catalog is good to go through, too.
The Q stuff I used to follow (for fun) has morphed and most of the shows have devolved back to the original grift or angle.
https://nemosnewsnetwork.com/ <-This guy is full anti-Semite now.
https://toresays.com/tore-says-show/ <-This lady is full on pathological. I listen for the mental illness.
https://x22report.com/ You can find various q weirdos (or whatever they've become) here.
Praying medic and neon revolt are still out there.
They’re still out there. People seem to think there needs to be a centralized platform or symbol for them to exist. Most of us, I’d guess, are ex-Reddit or have frequented enough social media platforms for us to have curated our feed to limit the noise, limiting comms to those we follow or friends. Or at least I have. That excludes the insanity that is the open-to-the-public postings of every stripe ever. Nextdoor. Facebook. The comments section on popular news sites. Heck, even here where we defederate stuff like hexbear. The comments immediately degrade into fear, hate, paranoia, racism, lib-bashing, conspiracy theories, JAQing off, and everything else we’ve seen before.
Just because we don’t hear the Q noise doesn’t mean they’re disappearing. They may not cling to the “Q” part, but they haven’t changed. They just make up new memes, but it’s the same old hateful insanity. They very much still exist.
Since my comment was removed, I'll just state objective facts: there was never any evidence to support the conspiracy posted by this 4Chan commentor. The hysteria around it eventually died out.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2024
173 points (96.3% liked)
Ask Lemmy
26890 readers
906 users here now
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Please don't post about US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS