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Q: Into the Storm is an American documentary television miniseries directed and produced by Cullen Hoback. It explores the QAnon conspiracy theory and the people involved with it. It consisted of six episodes and premiered on HBO on March 21, 2021
The series explores the rise of the QAnon conspiracy theory, and the people involved with it. The documentary features several people associated with 8chan, the imageboard website that is home to QAnon, including the site's owner Jim Watkins, former administrator Ron Watkins, and original creator Fredrick Brennan. Others interviewed include pro-QAnon video creators (known as Qtubers) and other QAnon believers; others on the right wing including OAN's Jack Posobeic; QAnon researchers; and journalists who have reported on the theory.

The series prominently describes the dynamics of the Watkinses and Brennan, including their split in 2018 and Brennan's later repudiation of the family. The series also focuses on 8chan, and the various movements that have found a home there, including Gamergate, Pizzagate, and QAnon. In the final episode, Hoback accompanies Jim Watkins to the January 6, 2021 storming of the United States Capitol.

In the last episode of the series, Hoback shows his final conversation with Ron Watkins, who states on camera, "I've spent the past ... almost ten years, every day, doing this kind of research anonymously. Now I'm doing it publicly, that's the only difference.... It was basically ... three years of intelligence training teaching normies how to do intelligence work. It was basically what I was doing anonymously before, but never as Q". Watkins then corrects himself, saying "Never as Q. I promise. Because I am not Q, and I never was". Hoback viewed this as an inadvertent admission from Watkins, and concludes from this interview and his other research that Ron Watkins is Q.
QAnon is a disproven and discredited American far-right conspiracy theory alleging that a secret cabal of Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotted against former U.S. president Donald Trump while he was in office. QAnon is commonly called a cult. The conspiracy theory began with an October 2017 post on the anonymous imageboard 4chan by "Q" (or "QAnon"), who was presumably an American individual. Q claimed to be a high-level government official with Q clearance, who has access to classified information involving the Trump administration and its opponents in the United States. The imageboard website 8chan, rebranded to 8kun in 2019, later became QAnon's online home, as it is the only place Q posts messages

8chan is an imageboard website composed of user-created message boards that was created in October 2013 by computer programmer Fredrick Brennan. After a surge in traffic to the site in 2014 due to the migration of Gamergate-related discussion from 4chan, Brennan was faced with financial challenges to keeping the site online. He began working with Jim Watkins, a technology businessman and the operator of the 2channel textboard, and moved to the Philippines to live and work with Watkins and his son Ron. In January 2015, Jim Watkins became the official owner and operator of 8chan Brennan continued to work as the site's administrator until 2016, at which time he relinquished the role and Ron Watkins took the position. Brennan continued to work for Jim Watkins until cutting ties with the family in 2018. Brennan has since become an outspoken critic of 8chan, the Watkinses, and QAnon, and has actively battled to try to take 8chan offline.

Numerous journalists and conspiracy theory researchers believe that Jim Watkins or his son, Ron Watkins, are working with Q, know Q's identity, or are themselves Q. Brennan has also supported this theory, and in June 2020 said, "I definitely, definitely, 100 percent believe that Q either knows Jim or Ron Watkins, or was hired by Jim or Ron Watkins."Both Watkinses have denied knowing Q's identity, and Ron Watkins again denied being Q shortly before the series premiered. In February 2020, Jim Watkins formed a super PAC called "Disarm the Deep State", which backs political candidates who support the QAnon conspiracy theory. Ron Watkins has played a major role in helping to amplify the QAnon conspiracy theory, and has been described as a de facto QAnon leader.
Q: Into the Storm is directed by Cullen Hoback. Hoback began following the development of QAnon and working to discover the identity of Q in 2017. Adam McKay is executive producer for the series, under his Hyperobject Industries banner.
Critical reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds an approval rating of 60% based on 20 reviews, with an average rating of 5.62/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Journeying a bit too far down the rabbit hole leaves Q: Into the Storm's message a bit muddled, but it works as a primer on one of the internet's most controversial communities." On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 64 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Stephen Robinson of The A.V. Club gave the series a positive review writing: "Q: Into The Storm doesn't overly sympathize with Q supporters nor does it simply sneer at the gullible. It's a delicate balance that Hoback successfully maintains throughout the documentary."Dominic Patten of Deadline Hollywood also gave the series a positive review writing: "The docuseries is a must-see for a clearer perspective on the damaged America of 2020 heading into the elections of 2024.". Daniel Fienberg for The Hollywood Reporter stated the series was "absorbing and admirably ambitious, even when the focus falters", although, he notes that "the docuseries has a frantic, all-over-the-place quality that may tax the patience of some viewers".

Daniel D'Addario of Variety gave the series a negative review describing the series as "overlong" and "it is most successful in its early going at thoughtlessly disseminating the Q message, and by its end has become a muddle with genuine bits of intriguing reporting studded amid so much dross". Adi Robertson of The Verge also gave the series a negative review writing "it tediously and obsessively charts an alleged inner circle of the movement, while glossing over the myriad reasons that Q's messages appeal to people, as well as QAnon's effect on believers and the people around them". Den of Geek's Alec Bojalad wrote that the series "features an engaging narrative but ultimately fails to examine the phenomenon in a meaningful way".

Criticism of the series' reporting on extremism and disinformation
Following the release of the series' teaser trailer, anti-disinformation researchers and journalists expressed concerns that the series might become a recruiting tool for QAnon. Joan Donovan of Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy said that its portrayal of Q as "edgy and exciting" could attract new followers.
Variety's D'Addario wrote that the series "raises certain existential questions about how, and perhaps whether, to cover misinformation campaigns". He observed that the documentary gave significant airtime to the Watkins and others promulgating the QAnon conspiracy theory, and prominently displayed usernames and messages from QAnon personalities.

Robertson wrote in The Verge that the series "breaks several best practices for reporting on extremism", and that it "embodies all the ways that idealistic journalistic values — a devotion to humanizing subjects, a goal of exposing powerful wrongdoers, and a belief that exposing truth will set people free — fail in the face of extremist movements".

Bojalad wrote for Den of Geek that "Q: Into the Storm takes for granted that its viewing audience has a solid grip on reality, ignoring years of recent evidence to the contrary".

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It’s also worth watching HBO Search for Q.

Any others?

There was a good David Icke video on Q.

I also hear Q will be in the second season of Star Trek Picard, random.

zoopenhoff wrote:

I also hear Q will be in the second season of Star Trek Picard, random.

That'd be groovy. about time that twisted shite was back!

Thanks for sharing. I never really understood the intricacies of this whole Q phenomenon. Even reading the torrent description helped a lot. It does certainly sound like it all goes really far down the rabbit hole though...

TheCorsair00 wrote:

Thanks for sharing. I never really understood the intricacies of this whole Q phenomenon. Even reading the torrent description helped a lot. It does certainly sound like it all goes really far down the rabbit hole though...

This is an interesting doc. regardless of your stance on the whole Q thing , this does certainly bring fresh info , interviews and such that hadn't been see of widely know previously

TheCorsair00 wrote:

Thanks for sharing. I never really understood the intricacies of this whole Q phenomenon. Even reading the torrent description helped a lot. It does certainly sound like it all goes really far down the rabbit hole though...

Have a read
https://davidicke.com/2021/01/18/q-anon-bears-striking-resemblance-to-bo...

and a listen
https://davidicke.com/2021/01/22/qanon-is-a-psyop-wake-up-people-david-i...

totally agree with what he says here.

zoopenhoff wrote:

TheCorsair00 wrote:
Thanks for sharing. I never really understood the intricacies of this whole Q phenomenon. Even reading the torrent description helped a lot. It does certainly sound like it all goes really far down the rabbit hole though...

Have a read
https://davidicke.com/2021/01/18/q-anon-bears-striking-resemblance-to-bo...
and a listen
https://davidicke.com/2021/01/22/qanon-is-a-psyop-wake-up-people-david-i...
totally agree with what he says here.

The doc you mentioned
https://concen.org/content/qanon-search-q

As for the stuff Icke mentions..
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62008
here's the source for his post

Sadly, there is actually documented proof of there being Satanism-related government activities involving child prostitution. Senator John DeCamp was told by his best friend and mentor, former CIA director William Colby, to write an expose detailing what they knew about this happening in the U.S. back in the 1980s: http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=CA4D7ADD2786551B4A2FD3F5E02FEF3B

"The Franklin Cover-up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska
DeCamp, John W.

The shut-down of Omaha, Nebraska's Franklin Community Federal Credit Union, raided by federal agencies in November 1988, sent shock waves all the way to Washington, D.C. $40 million was missing. The credit union's manager: Republican Party activist Lawrence E. "Larry" King, Jr., behind whose rise to fame and riches stood powerful figures in Nebraska politics and business, and in the nation's capital. In the face of opposition from local and state law enforcement, from the FBI, and from the powerful Omaha World-Herald newspaper, a special Franklin committee of the Nebraska Legislature launched its own probe. What looked like a financial swindle, soon exploded into a hideous tale of drugs, Iran-Contra money-laundering, a nationwide child abuse ring, and ritual murder. Nineteen months later, the legislative committee's chief investigator died - suddenly, and violently, like more than a dozen other people linked to the Franklin case. Author John DeCamp knows the Franklin scandal from the inside. In 1990, his "DeCamp memo" first publicly named the alleged high-ranking abusers. Today, he is attorney for two of the abuse victims. Using documentation never before made public, DeCamp lays bare not only the crimes, but the cover-up - a textbook case of how dangerous the corruption of institutions of government, and the press, can be. In its sweep and in what it portends for the nation, the Franklin cover-up followed the ugly precedent of the Warren Commission."

The Franklin story is very complex and takes a lot of time to research. Nick Bryant wrote a massive book on the subject and its audiobook is 24 hours long. Just to show how much information is involved here. I would try to watch the documentary Conspiracy of Silence on YouTube or at least read DeCamp's book before saying it is all "a carefully crafted hoax". Even Wikipedia says it was a hoax and mentions Alisha Owen being jailed for perjury, but she was one of the victims of one of the main perpetrators. Trust me, this one reeks of conspiracy and corruption. It is most fitting for this site...

that was a screaming fucking mess of a thing bud

Q is just a reboot of the failed and discredited "Anonymous" movement. They both are a CIA operation meant to spread disinformation mostly targeting the southerners of America (the Trump supporters).