Q claimed to be a high-level government insider with Q clearance (hence the name) tasked with posting intel drops - which he, for some reason, called “crumbs” - straight to 4chan in order to covertly inform the public about POTUS’s master plan to stage a countercoup against members of the deep state. On October 28, someone calling themselves Q began posting a series of cryptic messages in a /pol/ thread titled “Calm Before the Storm” (assumedly in reference to that creepy Trump quote from early October). And as of late, it’s expanded its ranks to include fringe members of all shapes and sizes. It’s the sort of place where neo-Nazis and people who believe women shouldn’t have basic human rights used to meet before we started verifying them on Twitter and electing them to public office. Over the last few years, /pol/ - which technically stands for “politically incorrect” - has slowly but surely become a top contender for the ever-coveted title of the most upsetting community online. It’s much, much bigger than that.Īs most terrible things do, this story begins with a post on /pol/, a sub-board of the more-or-less-anonymous, anything-goes website 4chan. However, unlike Pizzagate, the Storm isn’t focused on a single block of shops in D.C., or John Podesta’s emails. Like Pizzagate, the Storm conspiracy features secret cabals, a child sex-trafficking ring led (in part) by the satanic Democratic Party, and of course, countless logical leaps and paranoid assumptions that fail to hold up under the slightest fact-based scrutiny. They have a surprisingly decent graphics department over in Crazyland.Ī new conspiracy theory called “The Storm” has taken the grimiest parts of the internet by, well, storm.
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