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1st WaPo link in #1806 above, here's "Bill Smith" channel (>45K subs); & vid WaPo opens discussing:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/buBkgerNvRM/h...bom7AVIujglaiA 15:02
Q Anon 8-1-18 - We OFFICIALLY Went MAINSTREAM, Now MSM will report on Q Posts #BillSmith
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1 day ago
interesting joogle trends graph, corresponding with the JSM's anti-Q blitzkrieg which began in earnest Wed 8/1, in compliance with an obvious 4am Memo directive that morning:
You’ll never guess how the QAnon conspiracy theorists feel about all this media coverage
by Abby Ohlheiser August 3 at 10:45 AM Email the author
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(Ross May/Washington Post illustration; Chris O’Meara/AP; iStock)
For months, a man calling himself Bill Smith obsessed over the YouTube search rankings for QAnon, where his conspiracy-fueled videos competed with those made by other believers for the top few slots on the list of results. On Wednesday, Smith was dethroned by a rush of mainstream outlets, who each produced their own videos explaining the conspiracy theory after its existence suddenly went viral.
In a livestream to 45,000 YouTube subscribers on Wednesday, Smith looked at his diminished status — and sounded ecstatic. “I haven’t been this happy in a very long time,” he said. “CNN, NBC News, MSNBC, PBS News Hour, Washington Post, MSNBC, those are our new QAnon reporters!” Smith burst into laughter. “I can’t wait until I see Shepard Smith reporting on QAnon.”
“This is the moment!” he said. Finally, QAnon was mainstream.
[How QAnon, the conspiracy theory spawned by a Trump quip, got so big and scary]
QAnon is a complicated conspiracy theory stemming from the cryptic 4Chan posts of a figure calling themselves “Q,” as countless articles have explained over the past week. But it is also one of the most overtly ambitious ones to emerge in recent memory, in that its adherents and amplifiers intentionally seek to bring its existence to bigger and bigger audiences. As we at The Intersect wrote earlier this week, QAnon is the conspiracy theory that gives conspiracy theorists hope: Q’s horoscope-like posts promise that a reckoning for their enemies — Democrats, liberals and especially the Clintons — is coming at any moment.
So you can understand why an entire news cycle about QAnon — sparked by believers’ visibility at a Tuesday Trump rally in Florida — is the best thing to ever happen to its believers. What was once circulated on hashtags, YouTube keywords and fringy message boards now has an audience of, potentially, the entire country.
As a search term, QAnon certainly became more prominent this week. Here’s a Google Trends chart of the past eight months of search interest from December 2017 — around when it first started to gain any traction — and now. See that big spike at the end? That’s this past week:
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Google Trends
Paris Martineau, a writer at the Outline who was one of the first to identify and explain QAnon (also known as the Storm) in December, has been warning about the inevitable spike in interest for months. As the QAnon news cycle exploded, she warned that “Attention is attention is attention” also applies to conspiracy theories.
“The spread of QAnon is planned, with an assist from the polarization-prone algorithms of every major social media app,” Martineau also wrote in April. “QAnon followers spend hours upon hours online debating the best way to ‘redpill the normies,’ and created countless guides and cheat sheets in order to bring new members into the fold as quickly as possible. Of late, it seems to be working.”
It doesn’t take six-dimensional chess to figure out that the Internet is the perfect setting for a conspiracy theory like QAnon. A social media platform’s algorithms are designed to show its users things that they want to engage with and share, and what better for that than a single theory that seems to neatly explain the entire world, no matter how wild and unproven? And, there’s the added bonus of hate-sharing. As I wrote in February, the thing about sharing something online in outrage is that it’s still a share.
[Algorithms are one reason a conspiracy theory goes viral. Another reason might be you.]
Journalists cover conspiracy theories because their job is to tell the truth about the world around them, and things like QAnon beg for a sane fact check. But in doing so, said Whitney Phillips, an incoming assistant professor of communication and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University, they’re also doing work for the people who want to make QAnon visible.
“The problem is that the information is exactly what the evangelists want. It risks bringing more people into the story who can be converted,” Phillips said. “These reports — they are serving an important function even as they are doing the worst possible thing they could do.”
In QAnon land, this amplification is talked of in terms of war, one that they have been expecting on their march to victory. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then we win,” Smith told his live-stream audience. For him, the media blitz on Wednesday meant that the media had moved on to fighting against them. Since QAnon can explain everything, according to its believers, the media coverage just becomes part of the plan. “It’s never converged like this moment, that I’m watching right now,” Smith said.
On the Reddit board devoted to QAnon called — no joke — the Great Awakening, one post thanked the mainstream media for their coverage. “Your coordinated attack just launched Q into the mainstream and has strengthened the resolve of the believers,” it read. Other posts dissected each and every QAnon article that has been published this week, while others offered supportive messages to the flock of newcomers to their board, driven there, they assumed, by all the mainstream coverage.
When people show up at a Trump rally carrying signs and wearing T-shirts about Q, explaining why that’s happening is part of the media’s job. For those who have been watching the conspiracy Internet for a long time, the question is less whether to cover a conspiracy, but how.
More reading:
As the bizarre QAnon group emerges, Trump rallies go from nasty to dangerous
Roseanne Barr launched her new YouTube career by yelling an explanation for her Valerie Jarrett tweet
The #WalkAway meme is what happens when everything is viral and nothing matters
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1803 is hopeful, suggests POTUS plan to use Demrats' Russia-Russia deflection/inversion/projection distraction, as a weapon against them by using it as a tool to fix election fraud... :)
He isn’t going to fix election fraud until he gets rid of George Soros’s electronic voting machines
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Jeremy Rothe Kushel does this regular show "The Antidote" with Greg-something; I've never listened but this show came up in a YT Q search. I'm about 10 mins into it; sounds like they're Q skeptics but they're very scholarly in their approach.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Z2jq7l6DOKo/h...sDyNnljjo8kH7g 58:21
9/11 Truth, QAnon, and how Pre-Scripting Is Used to Discredit Movements
The Antedote
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This week Greg and Jeremy discuss all of the mainstream coverage of Q Anon, and draw parallels between attempts to identify ... New
I see The Antedote also has this vid pub'd July 9:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jbO6D0s5X3w/h...W3FsHn8GTe97Hg 58:06
QAnon: Trust the Plan, Trust the Scam, or Israeli ConOps Coup?
1.3K views4 weeks ago
Looks like 1st hour Rense tonight, beginning now (7pm PT), he's having another Q skeptic guest. Mami's will post the whole 3 hour show tonight or tomorrow morning. I believe Holland was a Vegas event (10/1/17) investigator as well.
MONDAY
Gary Holland
Q Anon vs Anonymous,
Jones Banned By 'Big Tech'
The New WWE Main Event
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Looks like 1st hour Rense tonight, beginning now (7pm PT), he's having another Q skeptic guest. Mami's will post the whole 3 hour show tonight or tomorrow morning. I believe Holland was a Vegas event (10/1/17) investigator as well.
MONDAY
Gary Holland
Q Anon vs Anonymous,
Jones Banned By 'Big Tech'
The New WWE Main Event
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listening now; so far same old same old anti-Q "argument" by 2 hardened curmudgeons who are dogmatic about "how the world works" therefore Q is just a psyop. They don't provide any "new anti-Q evidence", just bemoan how hopelessly corrupt everything is-- the "optimistic Q view" is implausible to their world paradigm, therefore it aint so. And they regurgitate the usual collection of smears towards pro-Qs: "cultists", "followers" yada yada.
Rense & Holland have a dilemma in that last week's JSM "4am Memo" explosion of anti-Q coverage agrees with the anti-Q view they're reciting in this show. But coz they're so "alt-media/red-pilled", they also have to project a skeptical view of the JSM; meaning they have to do this awkward dance where they try to obscure their alignment with that same JSM! :rolleyes: Only difference is they throw in the "joo/israeli psyop angle", which the JSM will never do of course-- however Rense/Holland offer no additional evidence, other than repetition re "that's how the world works."
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I've heard of "Epoch Times" b4, but never read enough to form an opinion of them. Here they have a fair/balanced Q article, arguably even positive, centered around a Jordan Sather interview. :)
https://twitter.com/Jordan_Sather_/s...99248540205056 << 37 comments atm
‘Q’ Community Responds to Media Attacks
By Joshua Philipp, The Epoch Times
August 7, 2018 Last Updated: August 7, 2018
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Francesca and David Spotts before a Make America Great Again rally in Wilkes-Barre, Penn., on Aug. 2, 2018. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)
Over the past week, nearly all legacy news outlets have published articles criticizing the growing movement around a mysterious figure or group known as “Q,” which since October 2017 has been publishing alleged leaks on behind-the-scenes actions taken by the Trump administration to uproot alleged global corruption.
The general angle on Q from most news outlets is the same—that it’s a conspiracy theory—and The Washington Post even went so far as to call it a “deranged conspiracy cult.”
The media backlash has done little to dissuade Q supporters, however, who continue to support the movement with billboards and t-shirts at Trump rallies, and in numerous online groups that analyze and discuss recent news and posts from Q.
To gain a better understanding of the movement, and why people believe in it, The Epoch Times spoke with Q fans at recent Trump rallies in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and with Jordan Sather, a prominent figure online who speaks and writes about his analysis of Q.
“Anybody calling it a cult or calling it a conspiracy theory, or calling it names, is doing so from an ignorant standpoint. Everybody attacking it, I find, they’re not even reading it,” said Sather, who runs the “Destroying the Illusion” channel on YouTube, on which he analyzes Q posts.
Q is a series of anonymous posts on the 8chan forum, which includes encryption to protect the identity of users, allowing for free discussion. The Q posts are mainly based on politics and focus on giving context to events both in the past and allegedly still to come. They focus heavily on government corruption and allege that actions are being taken by Trump and his administration to purge this corruption.
Sather described Q as a “laser pointer” that directs people to research chains of open-source information and discuss their findings on the forum.
He said that Q “hopped on the scene at a very pivotal point,” in October 2017. According to Sather, there is a fight between a “deep state” system comprising intelligence agencies and corrupt organizations, and an alliance of military intelligence agencies and patriots fighting this system. This fight, Sather believes, ties to President Donald Trump’s campaign message to “drain the swamp.”
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The audience at President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again rally in Tampa, Fla., on July 31, 2018. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)
Sather said, “What 2016 and 2017 brought us was an opportunity with Donald Trump for somebody who is not going to go along with the rogue intelligence agencies anymore, and that’s when Q popped onto the scene as basically the big public warning saying stuff is going to start going down.”
The Q forum has received a large following. On June 28, Time Magazine listed Q as one of “the 25 most influential people on the internet.” Some users follow Q posts directly on 8chan, while many others follow various websites and YouTube channels that republish and analyze the posts.
Francesca Spotts, 38, who works as a bartender, was holding a Q sign at an Aug. 2 Trump rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. “The information is for you to investigate yourself, just like the news,” she said. “If you’re watching CNN, you’re looking at information and it’s up to you to go out and validate that information in other places, and this is the same thing. It’s just a different news outlet.
“Q is basically just a forum for news—tidbits of information that the American public can see for themselves and figure out for themselves. It’s news that we’re not seeing on the mainstream media. So that’s why there’s a big following.”
Jay Domer, 27, who works as a cook, was at the Aug. 4 rally in Lewis Center, Ohio. He said that he has been following the Q posts for several months and that some of the posts point to hypocrisy in legacy news outlets. “[Q posts] a lot of CNN and Washington Post articles, and basically uses their own articles against them,” he said. “So, this is what they posted two years ago, and this is what they’re posting today, and they’re the complete opposite.”
Rachel Reed, 27, who works as a manager at a retail store, was attending the rally with Domer and noted that, from her perspective, the attacks on the Q movement by legacy news outlets “mean we’re doing something right.”
“If we were no threat, they wouldn’t have to waste their resources and time to silence us,” Reed said.
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Rachel Reed and Jay Domer line up for a Make America Great Again rally in Lewis Center, Ohio, on Aug. 4, 2018. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)
She also pointed to the more than 45,000 sealed indictments said to be waiting currently at the Justice Department and noted that in a normal year the number is only 2,000 to 3,000. A team of volunteers compiled the number of indictments using the Public Access to Court Electronic Records service of the federal judiciary. Reed believes the sealed indictments are tied to Q claims about the Trump administration clearing out corruption.
According to Sather, many news articles have attempted to analyze who Q is, rather than why the posts exist. In Sather’s analysis, the Q posts are part of an information dissemination project being run with the purpose of informing the public about political events as they take place.
“This is a full disclosure,” he said. “This isn’t just small little pieces of corruption. The amazing thing about this Q operation is it connects the dots over so many connections.”
He said that if the Trump administration were to uphold its promises to “drain the swamp,” it would likely look like what Q is discussing. He also said that it if the alleged events are real, it makes sense that it is done through an alternative channel rather than legacy news outlets or social media that could censor the information.
Sather also believes that the sometimes indirect nature of the posts, which use abbreviations for names and incidents, relying on the community to decode the meaning, is also done in a way that would not violate national security laws.
Part of the belief that Q is a back channel of the Trump administration is also tied to alleged “proofs” the movement has received from Trump tweets that subtly correspond to Q posts, or other actions such as pointing to people with Q shirts and signs at rallies. Sather noted a recent video where the Trump motorcade honked at supporters holding a sign that read “Honk for Q MAGA.”
Sather also noted, “If this was a conspiracy, why hasn’t Trump himself distanced from it? If this would hurt his platform in any way, now or in the future, you’d think he would have said something about it by now. I mean, it’s everywhere.”
Charlotte Cuthbertson contributed to this report.
Jordan also mentioned that @OANN (One America News Network) did a really bad Q video piece, even though they're nominally alt/conservative. But Jordan didn't link to the vid, so I haven't seen it! :(
https://twitter.com/Jordan_Sather_/s...69747840090112
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qanon.pub was my default Q drop scraper page. Tweet suggests this is permanent, but there are alternatives:
https://qntmpkts.keybase.pub
https://qanonmap.bitbucket.io
https://qanonposts.com < doesn't auto-refresh.
https://twitter.com/qntmpkts/status/1027197504088145923
don't know what to make of this supposed "Anonymous (anarchist hacker group) is gonna expose the people behind Q-anon" threat. Also not concerned about it. Problem with "Anonymous" is, anyone can put up a vid with a Guy Fawkes mask & computer voice, claiming to be with "Anonymous", + whatever threat they can dream up. Prime clown playground. :rolleyes:
Anonymous vows to take down, expose QAnon | TheHill
Jordan S, sort of an updated QAnon 101 for noobs. 18m:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x27EZLRmoAU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x27EZLRmoAU
US Senate Calls On Julian Assange To Testify
https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/defa...?itok=LY4e264-
by Tyler Durden
Wed, 08/08/2018 - 10:20
edit: also new from Jordan: 11 mins
[8.8] qanon.pub DOWN / Assange to Testify / Mattis Reverses on Space Force / Mandatory Vaccines
3.3K views
51 minutes ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySSnEYdnsEM
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No new Q so far today. :( Remember, qanon.pub got removed :|~ so alt's to bookmark include
https://qntmpkts.keybase.pub
https://qanonmap.bitbucket.io
https://qanonposts.com
https://qanon.app
This new viddy appears, from style & voiceover, to be from the same creator as the "Q: The Plan To Save The World" vid which was so popular in Q land.
This has 68k views in ~20 hrs, 2x the # of YT subs the hosting channel has (34k). Like the above vid, mirrors are popping up at other channels; so hard to count the real total views.
< 5 mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80s5xuvzCtg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80s5xuvzCtg
^ Popular Q vlogger @PrayingMedic plugged it; can read his comments (127 atm):
https://twitter.com/prayingmedic/sta...73935342133248
latest prayingmedic (115k YT subs):
29m: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYEoaxsjxoY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYEoaxsjxoY
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Bruce Figert, one of whose vids Q pointed to back in Apr/early May when the "Be careful who you follow" thing blew up-- Bruce did a nice job with this one, walking us through some of the best 8ch anons' posts:
24m:
Q-anon Update 8/9//2018 A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM THE TOP KEK on 8Chan
7.9K views9 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMJ7Zxmkd5U
Something led me to look at The Kosher Turds channel's (>4mm subs! :o) anti-Q segments; turns out they've done no less than 3 anti-Q bits beginning with their Aug 1 "WTF is QAnon?!" piece, in compliance with CIA's 4am Memo which obviously went out that morning, triggering the MSM-wide anti-Q avalanche.
Plug your nose & skip through if you can bear it, or just skim their top few sycophants' comments. Oldest first:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LStlxxFONAw/h...UOQ0fDy1vIOmhg 14:16
WTF Is QAnon?!
252K views
1 week ago
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xBnfYy22wJc/h...bBI3xREdEVafZA 8:47
QAnon Movement Will Make You Facepalm
163K views
5 days ago
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Vp3koKTYvHM/h..._pNbsLsU1n-vbA 9:13
Ana Kasparian Exposes QAnon
34K views
1 day ago
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yeah, the Trump admission basically covers any Clinton black hands.
Real dirt were searched for and all came out post election... is the psyop towline.
