ElI5: What is a QAnon?
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Picture a problem at your local combination Pizza Hut/Taco Bell. Say an oven catches fire and everyone has to evacuate. The fire marshal enters the building and notices burnt remains of towels and scorch marks up the sides of the oven. In his expert opinion, there was grease on the side that caught fire and wicked up to the towels, causing a greater conflagration. That’s trusting in experts.
Now picture the same issue, except people dislike the fire marshal. Someone says “Wait a second, wasn’t he supposed to be there earlier in the day for a routine inspection?” Yes, he ran late. But people start “connecting the dots” and mistakenly realize that *the fire marshal must have set the fires*. Him not being there was too coincidental. It must be like the movie Backdraft, where firefighters set the fires so they can show up as a hero! Now we have a culprit and a motive. Case solved. That’s QAnon.
They provide “evidence” like the fire marshal being late, and tell you to follow your instinct. Since you don’t like the fire marshal and assume the worst, that’s where your instinct takes you. It’s an alternate reality game, except it plays you instead of vice versa.
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