The transfer of power in the United States went smoothly, and the right-wing conspiracy theorists of anonymous Q in the United States were disappointed.
[Text/Observer Network Wang Shichun] On January 20, local time, US President-elect Biden held an inauguration ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, and was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. Trump left the White House on the same day and took "Air Force One" to Haihu Manor in Florida.
The smooth handover of the US regime has greatly disappointed some followers of "Q Anonymous". This group of right-wing conspiracy theories still thought that there would be a "big event" before January 20, and Trump launched the military and right-wing supporters to engage in a "great awakening" and would "fight to the end" with the deep government. But obviously, the handover of power at the inauguration ceremony was smooth, and "the big one didn’t come."
Some "anonymous Q" users said that they "felt cheated" and Trump failed to defeat the "deep government group of the paedophile Democratic Party that worships Satan". The mainstream media in the United States are also worried that this group of right-wing conspiracy theorists "will become more radical and even throw themselves into the arms of neo-Nazis."
At the Trump support rally, the "anonymous Q" conspiracy theory supporter who holds high "We are all Q" Source: Video screenshot
According to Reuters’s report on January 21st, with Democratic President Joe Biden calmly sworn in at the White House, Trump strode away, and a large number of "anonymous Q" conspiracy theorists found that the "big one is coming" they were expecting didn’t come, and nothing happened.
On January 18th, 2021, local time, the rehearsal of Biden’s inauguration ceremony was held in Washington, USA. Source: 澎湃 image
Anonymous Q(QAnon) is a far-right conspiracy theory. Its supporters believe that there is a "Deep State" within the US government. This "deep state" controls the whole United States, believes in Satan, and child molesters everywhere oppose US President Trump and his supporters.
This theory first came from an anonymous user named Q in 4chan’s discussion board in October 2017. "Anonymous Q" claimed that he had confidential information about the Trump administration and its opponents in the United States. In addition, Q accused many liberal Hollywood actors, democratic politicians and senior officials of participating in the "international underground child molestation network".
Although this kind of accusation of "God is a normal state of discussing politics on 4Chan discussion board, in October 2017, Trump mentioned a" quiet before the storm "when talking with reporters at the White House, which made the mainstream media puzzled, but it quickly helped the" anonymous Q "conspiracy theory attract a large number of believers. Because "Anonymous Q" often uses words like "Great Awakening and Storm" to describe "the right-wing trend sweeping across the United States".
They spread these theories on mainstream websites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. More and more people began to participate in offline parties as "We are anonymous Q" and played the banner of "We are anonymous Q" at Trump supporters’ rally.
In the election year of 2020, supporters of "Anonymous Q" spread a lot of unfavorable news about Biden on social media, and then mainstream social media in the United States began to block these topics. With Biden winning the election, the followers of "Anonymous Q" began to share Trump’s alleged "election fraud theory" and believed that Trump would "launch a big storm" at the inauguration ceremony and mobilize soldiers and patriots to "overthrow the deep net".
On the day of Biden’s inauguration, Trump supporters said on Twitter that Trump blocked "them" from targeting "us"
On Wednesday, they had to face a harsh reality test: when Trump stepped down, he did not launch a military police to arrest Democrats on a large scale, nor did he win any victory in cracking down on the so-called "Satan-worshipping pedophile-eating Democratic Party". This makes many supporters of "Anonymous Q" feel "desperate".
On a Telegram channel with 18,400 members, the followers of "Anonymous Q" are divided into two groups. One group still urges others to "believe in the big plan" and the other group says that they have been "betrayed". One user wrote: "Obviously, we have been cheated. There is no’ big plan’, no Q, nothing. "
Even the leader of "Anonymous Q" forum stated that "nothing will happen". Ron Vawter Watkins, a long-time "Anonymous Q" administrator of the right-wing forum 8Kun and the leader of the right-wing organization, said on Telegram, "We have a new president sworn in. As citizens, we have the responsibility to respect the Constitution … Now it’s time to move on.
After he made these remarks, all right-wingers claimed that they no longer believed the contents of "Anonymous Q", while others accused Watkins of being "CIA undercover".
Jared Holt, a false information researcher at the Atlantic Council, said that he had never seen such a large-scale "disillusionment" in the QAnon community he monitored before.
Holt said: "Q believers just let themselves be bound by one failed promise after another, and keep repeating’ believe in big plans’, but in the end there is nothing, and the whole movement is now questioned."
With the smooth handover of power, Trump is no longer regarded as an "idol" by some extreme right-wingers. The theory of "anonymous Q" has also been abandoned by many American extreme right-wingers. On a Telegram channel of Proud Boys, a far-right organization, some users accused Trump of "betraying the struggle on Capitol Hill" and called the anonymous Q theory "a Bolshevik lie".
However, many American media said that not everyone questioned the content of anonymous Q. After Biden’s inauguration ceremony, the remaining right-wing conspiracy theorists "will become more radical".
Reuters said that other fringe organizations, including neo-Nazis, indicated that they intended to take advantage of the chaos to recruit more members from the followers of Anonymous Q.. Although Reuters did not provide the source of this comment.
Joel Finkelstein, the co-founder of the Institute of Network Infectious Diseases, a research institute of false information, told Washington post: "What we are seeing is a language trend that is more and more conservative and promotes doomsday theory. (Biden came to power) has changed from a’ revolution’ to a collapse of civilization. "
Finkelstein said that after American social media blocked the content of Anonymous Q, the movement has become international. The followers of "anonymous Q" in Germany and Japan are particularly strong, and the number is still growing.
Japan’s "Anonymous Q" supporters held a "special rally" Source: social media
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