Welcome listener to chapter 191 of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, The Mass Shootings

and the Chans episode.

As always we are your host Jake Rockatansky, Dale Beran, Julian Field, and Travis Vue.

This week we are turning our wary attention to a topic that is difficult to cover.

The Mass Shootings whose perpetrators interacted with online image boards like 4chan and 8chan.

Our guest writer is Dale Beran, author of It Came From Something Awful, a book we definitely

recommend that covers the history of these online communities and how they interacted with

the alt-right in the lead up to Donald Trump's presidency.

Since then he and I co-wrote from Anonymous to QAnon, which is main episode 128 of this

podcast.

In it we explored the role that the chans played in creating QAnon and radicalizing young

men to the far right.

Now one thing to note about this episode before we get started, it is not our intention

to comprehensively cover these mass shootings and the way they interact with mainstream

culture, media, or even legislation.

There are many people doing a great job of that.

We're more interested in a very specific and often under reported aspect of these tragedies.

The online communities, some of these shooters frequented and how these communities mythologize

and oftentimes worship past perpetrators, creating a repeating cycle of violence, a disturbing

form of memification.

So with that said, let's get started.

On May 14th, an 18 year old man killed 10 people on a top grocery store in Buffalo, New

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