While many QAnon believers reacted to his long-anticipated announcement with excitement, some voiced their anger, because it implied he was accepting that he lost the 2020 election – something he and his most ardent supporters have spent the last two years rejecting.
"Hey you guys, the elections are all rigged… But [vote] for me again! This is literally 1984-tier doublethink," one user wrote on 8kun, according to screenshots posted on Twitter.
The QAnon movement was already on the back foot. The midterm elections were a failure for the conspiracy theory movement, as dozens of candidates aligned with it lost their races for Congress and high-ranking state offices.
And earlier this month, the latest posts by the so-called "Q" on the forum 8kun were met with a lukewarm response.
All of this could be taken as evidence that the movement is losing steam. However, experts believe this is far from the case – and that it is simply evolving and changing shape.
"It's becoming much more mainstream and less devoted to the mythology of Q itself," Mike Rothschild, a QAnon expert who wrote "The Storm is Upon Us," told Insider.
https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/some-qanon-believers-are-enraged-by-trumps-2024-announcement-and-have-started-ignoring-q-drops-but-experts-say-the-movement-is-as-fervent-as-ever-/articleshow/95643358.cms