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A Game Designer’s Analysis Of QAnon - Playing with reality (20min+ read. A bit lengthy, but it worth)
In brief - apophenia. Just a tad more elaborated - induced/guided aphonenia.
What's fascinating is the buttons of human psyche that are pushed to sink people deep into the rabbit holes:
- Follow The Breadcrumbs - don't tell, just select the dots that are to be connected
- The Eureka Effect - the rush of the Aha! moments and the feeling of being rewarded
- Lamestream Media - passivate against the reality that's not supportive to the agenda
- Community - sense of belonging, behavior reinforcement; a population large and motivated enough to adopt an evolutionary strategy in selecting the best CT-es
All the above are exemplified - and these examples is how I got to get WTF Beyoncé has to do with QAnon.
So, if all it's an Alternate Reality Game, there's no harm, right? Not so fast, the US Military Academy ran the The QAnon Conspiracy Theory: A Security Threat in the Making? article in its "Combating Terrorism Center" journal, stating
QAnon represents a public security threat with the potential in the future to become a more impactful domestic terror threat. This is true especially given that conspiracy theories have a track record of propelling terrorist violence elsewhere in the West as well as QAnon’s more recent influence on mainstream political discourse.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2020, @09:05AM
Mostly because Runaway is really, really stupid, and he keeps posting shit from the most unreliable sources, which, for some strange reason, tend to be all far-right loony-toons. Azuma Hazuki, on the other hand, cites credible sources when she does post new material. And what you perceive as "violent" is just her straightening out some of more mentally challenged rightwingers among us, such as yourself. Just because it hurts, doesn't mean it's violence, or that it is not actually good for you. Now, off you go, all the other 1's have already gone. Q is holding the Big Meeting for the Coming Strom, and they found the pizzeria basement (hint: it's in the Vatican!!!).