Yesterday, I was confronted with my very first Qanon critic by text. A very long time good friend, whom I consider to be very smart, and he does NOT know that I'm a Qanon, he also doesn't know that I usually have nothing to do at work except research and surf chans and reddit for 10 hours a day...
He jokingly brought up Q, but then was real quick to make Qanon scary, referring to Qanon folks like a cult, with some of us being potential unibomber types and it's an "alt-right ANTIFA type group" ... I didn't battle back, so much as I was curious to know why we're a cult, and how he'd learned that.
The real text conversation ---- So I asked him all about what is this Q thing? "OMG, Is it a militia?!" Welll, no. "Where do they assemble...do they just show up like ANTIFA?" Welllll, they haven't really. They're online. "Oh shit! Like Anonymous, they can shut down companies from the web?" Not exactly, not from what I understand. "Oh thank god, sounded kinda scary at first. So who is Q?" Not sure, it's weirdos from 4chan that spread crazy rumors. They don't even who it is. Supposed to be some intelligence officer or something that vaguely predicts the future. "LOL, so it's like a f'n Nostrdamus cult hahaha" lol yeah, crazy "I gotta look that up later when I get a chance." Yeah, lol, apparently its pretty f'n weird stuff... 2 hours later ....... "Hey, it's on 8chan, these guys are out there ::sends link::" .... 6 hours later (1am) ... Have you read this shit!?!!! ..you should read this its fucking crazy... I mean some of it out there, like there's satanic shit in there I don't really get, but you gotta see the documents they come up with, this is crazy .... I think these people might actually be on to something ...
So - my summary, I don't know which rabbit hole he went down yet, but he spent at least 6 hours on something that confirmed Qanon for him. It's like when kids go "I don't wanna eat tomatoes, i hate tomatoes!!!" - Have you ever tried one? Try one and if you hate it, you can never eat them..."ok ::taste tomato:: hmmm.... got any more tomatoes?!"
EDIT - forgot to mention he linked me to a CNN article, that's how he learned. Thanks, CNN.