Billboards Promoting 4Chan Conspiracy Theory ‘QAnon’ Pop Up Across America

Billboards next to Georgia and Oklahoma highways reference a farcical and ill-defined "Deep State" conspiracy theory — but who’s paying for them?

In May 2018, a Reddit user posted the image of a billboard in southern Oklahoma to the subreddit “greatawakening,” which is dedicated to a largely incoherent, ever-widening conspiracy theory known as “The Storm“ (with the hashtag #QAnon) that involves an anonymous group of “highly placed” government individuals nobly fighting the corruption of the “Deep State” (that is to say, the civil servants who work within the American government) while representing themselves as someone going only by “Q”:

The billboard sports an oversized, American flag-bedazzled letter “Q,” next to which is the text “Where We Go One We Go All” — a popular Q slogan which apparently is a line in the 1996 Jeff Bridges movie White Squall, whose plot involves people surviving a storm (the name of the conspiracy!) on an sailboat (a metaphor!) The billboard primarily promotes the website “DoUKnowQ.com,” which — though it has the appearance of being informative — seems primarily concerned with pure profit.

An archived version of the website from May 2018 shows that it was once in the business of selling Q-related website domains at a significant markup. Now, their “online store” links to a Cafepress web shop selling Q branded merchandise like T-shirts and mugs.

We called the company that owns that billboard space — Lindmark Outdoor Media — to confirm that the billboard was real and to inquire about its origins. A representative who answered a call to their corporate office told us that the billboard — which is found between exits 21 and 24 on southbound I-35 north of the Texas border — was real, that it had been rented since 1 May 2018, and that it appeared to be booked through to the end of the year.

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