This Sure Isn’t the Election QAnon Wanted

Everyone, at some point, has to deal with being on the losing side of a presidential election. On 8kun, the seedy imageboard where the movement’s anonymous leader Q posts messages to his followers, QAnon followers can’t quite agree on how to process Trump’s likely defeat. With his site privileges, Ron was able to control the Q account whenever he wanted and very likely has some sort of working relationship with whoever is posting as Q, who claims to be a government official with “Q-level clearance.” Many in the movement believe that Joe Biden is a pedophile; their reactions to his likely victory have ranged from assurances that a Trump loss is part of a greater plan to calls to take up arms in a civil war. Don’t you fucking dare go ghost mode.” The QAnon followers on 8kun have also been behind misinformation around voting irregularities that have spread to certain corners of the right. On Twitter, there was infighting among adherents when Tracy Beanz, a prominent QAnon influencer, replied “he’s right” to a tweet from Breitbart’s former editor in chief mocking the conspiracy theory’s adherents for “sit at their computers waiting for their next morphine drop when folks should be on the streets protesting.” QAnon followers weren’t happy with her comment, with some accusing her of being disloyal to Q and luring believers into the street where they’d be vulnerable to antifa.