Claims: in qanon appeal

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27 Feb 2023
People often turn to QAnon after experiencing personal loss or hardship.

Yeah, I think a lot of times when someone gets into QAnon or another conspiracy theory in a really hardcore enough way that I end up writing about them, you can kind of... There's often sort of a key that unlocks it, and you can sort of see the path. And often they identify it. They'll say, well, this thing happened to me, and that's why QAnon appealed to me. You know, for example, one guy who ended up in the Austin Steinbart group, he had this kind of crazy disease. I think he had cancer and ended up on disability and or couldn't get his disability approved. He couldn't work. So he's kind of angry at the world and the government. And then he discovers QAnon and says, well, wait. You know, no wonder this world is so screwed up. It's because of this cabal. Or, you know, someone like I wrote about a woman who got into QAnon during the pandemic and she was sort of cut off from everyone and, you know, she was sort of a shut in. And then as a result, you know, she was an easy mark for QAnon. So often there is kind of this or there's sort of an eccentricity this person's into really deep into Bitcoin.

20 Oct 2021
QAnon sells the feeling of satisfaction from seeing hated figures like Hillary Clinton and John Podesta punished, rather than financial gain.

But what Q was selling wasn't that you're going to get rich. It was you're going to feel awesome when Hillary Clinton and John Podesta get the short drop from the rope at Guantanamo Bay. It was selling good feelings and it was selling the idea that these people that they've hated for decades are finally going to get what's coming to them.