The end is nigh! Four-in-ten people believe we're 'living in the end times' trends now
Jacob Chansley, also known as the QAnon shaman, famously joined a mob supporting former president Donald Trump at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC.
QAnon started on fringe website 4chan, where a poster calling themselves Q left messages claiming to be a senior federal official and purporting to reveal a 'deep state' cabal intent on bringing down then-president Donald Trump.
Q grew out of the discredited 'Pizzagate' conspiracy that top Democrats were involved in pedophilia and cannibalism from the basement of a Washington DC restaurant, but quickly picked up steam with Q' leaving 'clues' and claims that Trump was going to bring down the deep state.
A core tenet of the conspiracy theory is that a cabal of child-sex predators that includes prominent Democrats, Hollywood elites and 'deep state' allies ran institutions and a global child sex ring.
It has become a 'big tent' conspiracy theory encompassing misinformation about topics ranging from alien landings to vaccine safety. Whenever the conspiracies turn out to not be true, followers rationalize that the inaccuracies are part of Q's larger plan.
Followers of QAnon say a so-called Great Awakening is coming to bring salvation.
The 'Q' posts,
