So reading that link, it appears a Q-faction has broken off that now believes that Biden is Q. That is just... I don't even know the right word. It's hard to fathom the amount of misplaced faith it must take to keep the true believers going.
It's like religion for these people. It's astounding. But remember, Republicans tend to be very gullible, so Qanon adherents can be extrapolated to be the most gullible among the gullible, so I guess it's not too surprising.
This should make things interesting. From the Forbes article:
“Biden is Q” a post on the donald.win read, while others brushed aside that theory and urged believers to stick with Trump.
I especially liked this bit of apophenia:
QAnon message boards lit up during Trump’s farewell speech after some believers noticed there were 17 flags around the stage. The number 17 is code for QAnon followers, as the letter “Q” is the seventeenth letter of the alphabet.
There really is no end to the insanity.
So Q is anti-Q? I'm so lost now...
It is all so confusing. From a WaPo article today, I think it was mentioned in the Forbes article as well:
Some of the most notable figures in QAnon’s online universe said they were having a change of heart. After Biden’s inauguration, Ron Watkins — the longtime administrator of QAnon’s online home, 8kun, who critics have suspected may have helped write Q’s posts himself, a charge he denies — said on Telegram that it was time to move on.
“We need to keep our chins up and go back to our lives as best we are able,” said Watkins, who in recent months had become one of the loudest backers of conspiracy theories suggesting Biden’s win was a fraud.
“We have a new president sworn in and it is our responsibility as citizens to respect the Constitution regardless of whether or not we agree with the specifics,” Watkins added. “As we enter into the next administration please remember all the friends and happy memories we made together over the past few years.”https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/20/qanon-trump-era-ends/Watkins is kinda the main Q guy out there. Even he is like, "Ooop, I guess that was whatever that was, carry on." Happy memories???
So sad that people got so sucked into it, some lives even destroyed because of it. Another component is monetary, which didn't even occur to me. From the same article:
But on Wednesday, as reality dawned, QAnon promoters who had gained thousands of online supporters by promising to decode Q’s arcane posts — and profited off their audience, by selling QAnon merchandise or online subscriptions along the way — scrambled to spin the truth of Trump’s election loss or shift the goal posts of a deadline four years in the making.Imagine all the dough squandered on Q merch let alone the brain cells scrambled by chasing the Q tail. It's definitely one for the record books of crazy fanatical fads for lack of a better term.