Posts from QAnon conspiracy theorists’ ‘leader’ Q grind to a halt leaving followers ‘shaken’
QANON's anonymous "leader" Q seems to have stopped posting conspiracy theories on social media after Joe Biden's win.
Q, who peddles baseless claims about the supposed "Deep State," reportedly went quiet after Biden beat Donald Trump, while discussion boards used by its believers also ground to a halt.
It centers around an anonymous source, Q, who is trying to tell the world secrets about these elites and Democrats and the movement has been classified as a by the .
QAnon followers have been left devastated by Biden's win when they were promised a landslide victory for Trump coupled with Q's week-long silence, reported .
"The fact that Trump will hold rallies tells you everything you need to know about his strategy," they wrote on November 8. "He's going to stick the knife in and twist it. He has no plans to leave office. Ever."
"They were not expecting him to lose, and they were not expecting Fox News to call it. It was really psychologically damaging."
Followers try to decipher these nonsensical posts, with some of Trump's most loyal supporters using them as a way to explain away any scandal the President might face.
Trump refused to condemn their bizarre beliefs on October 15 and many of his supporters are seen with clothes and flags emblazoned with their slogan "where we go one, go all."
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Facebook crack down on QAnon, removing over 1,500 Pages and Groups containing discussions of potential violence and "over 6,500 Pages and Groups tied to more than 300 Militarized Social Movements" by October.
What is QAnon?
These centre around unfounded allegations that President Trump and special counsel Robert Mueller are waging a secret battle against an alleged paedophile ring.
Supporters of the entirely unfounded theory believe that this ring is filled with celebrities and political elites, who have been covertly running the United States government for decades.
The theory gained more press coverage after a supporter held a vast letter Q at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania in August 2018.
In June 2018, an armed QAnon follower blocked traffic at the Hoover Dam, demanding the president release a report allegedly tying past presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton to the alleged sex ring.
The protester, Matthew Wright, pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in February 2020.