Welcome listener to chapter 202 of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, The Gruming Panic

Episode as always we are your host Jake Rakotansky, Annie Kelly, Julian Fields and Travis View.

Hello listeners, it's your UK correspondent Annie here, surprisingly. I was meant to be taking

the month of this podcast in August to work on mine and Julian's upcoming podcast series Manclan,

but something happened to me last week that I thought was worth talking to you about.

As you might have heard me mention on the podcast before, I live in a small city in the east of

England called Norwich. I was alerted recently that our city library was planning a drag queen's

story-arrow vent, which had become a target for protests by various groups, claiming that the

event was inappropriate for children. This protest wasn't happening in isolation, but was part of

a series that have been happening across the country, with some events either having had to be

cancelled or secretly relocated due to safety fears. In fact, very close to me in Norwich,

one such event starring the same performer as planned in Norwich, Aunty Tatania, had already been cancelled.

Now I know when I say that various groups have been protesting these events, that sounds almost

deliberately vague, but it really is a strangely mixed bag. In fact it seems as if almost every far

right nationalist or co-vidsceptic organisation in this country is showing up to have a go at these

protests. Part of the reason for why that is is to do with how these groups tend to organise

themselves these days. On platforms like Telegram, protests like these get rapidly shared across

networks with lots of overlapping audiences. Another reason is that having experienced a surge of

interest in energy during the anti-lockdown protests, many of the organisers of these groups need

a new offline outlet to keep the momentum going, as users tend to lose interest and drift away

without a direct and immediate cause. We're not angry anymore, please, we need more red meat.

Yeah, I mean that is literally exactly it. Anger levels, lowering, heart rate, slowing.

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