It’s truly fascinating to watch these people be (to use an overused analogy) herded between fields by higher intelligences like sheep.
Comment on What ever happened to QAnon?
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
It kind of merged into a couple things, from what I’ve seen: “wellness” (you know the kind, antivaxx mommy blog crap, Joe Rogan raw meat diets, supplements), “preppers” (people ready for a race war and living off the grid a la The Turner Diaries), and the “tradwife/MIGTOW” stuff. There’s the splinter adherents from various right-wing influencer podcasts thinking JFK or whoever is going to reemerge at Dealy Plaza, but those invariably fizzle out. The integration into broader movements is where it’s thriving. You get lured in with yoga, then next thing you know you’re canning beans because you won’t be the one eating bugs because that’s what the democrats want.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Yoga and canning beans are both great hobbies. You pick weird things to use as examples of the worst way getting sucked into QAnon could go.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
You’d be so surprised! The hobbies are inherently good. But people — specifically, influencers — use them as gateways to the broader movements (so-called wellness and prepping as described above).