Is this the end of QAnon?
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Conspiracies spread fast on anonymous platforms like 4chan. QAnon's evolution on the site is fuelled by unfounded theories which suggest that President Trump is waging a secret war against Satan-worshipping paedophiles who hold some of the highest positions in the country. Now that Donald Trump is no longer in office, what happens to those who believed in QAnon's ideas?
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| 0:30.0 | While the world watched the inauguration of President Joe Biden, conspiracy theorists |
| 0:39.5 | followers of the QAnon phenomenon waited in anticipation. |
| 0:44.7 | This was supposed to be their moment of vindication. |
| 0:49.8 | What they called the Great Awakening. |
| 0:54.0 | When Satan worshipping Democrats who trafficked children in |
| 0:59.0 | wayfare boxes would be arrested by President Trump and Q, or at least members of the military directed by Q. |
| 1:06.8 | But that moment never came and now the Q and on message boards are in meltdown. |
| 1:13.4 | There is no plan, posted one commenter. |
| 1:16.2 | It's over and nothing makes sense, wrote another. |
| 1:19.8 | Q was a larp the entire effing time, complained one, |
| 1:23.8 | while a poster on a Q&on telegram channel said, |
| 1:26.4 | it simply doesn't make sense that we all got played. |
| 1:30.4 | What next for the followers of Q and on? |
| 1:33.0 | Will the conspiracy evolve again? |
| 1:36.0 | Or is this the end of the delusion? |
| 1:38.0 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 1:42.0 | I'm Mandvein Rana. Today, the future of Q&on. So for the inauguration knowing what they were anticipating I camped out in a Q-Anon chat room. |
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