He recalls, “I wasn’t one hundred percent where I should be.”
After the November election he spent days on the ticket ok, integrating into the world of Q Anon on Facebook and YouTube. By opening day, she was convinced that the United States would literally turn into a communist country if Biden took power, then elected president. She was terrified that she would have to hide with her daughter.
Many Kyun believers have a clear political motive, but Wonderbilt says he is a passive participant in politics.
“I’ve always been someone you tell me what I should do and I do it. I grew up being told we’re Republicans, so I’ve always been a straight red ticket,” she said in an interview with CNN near her. . Home in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina last Saturday.
She doesn’t watch the news. “What have we heard in the last four or five years? Don’t watch the news. ‘Fake news.’ ‘Fake news.’ ”
Vanderbilt worked for a construction company. But, like millions of Americans in 2020, she says she lost her job at the start of the Covid-19L downdown. With frustration and more time on his hands, he began to spend a lot of time online.
The 27-year-old mom is an avid user of the video app ticket ok. It’s there, she says, that she was first introduced with Quennon.
She mostly followed entertainment accounts on the platform, but as the election approached she began interacting with pro-Trump and anti-Biden ticket ok videos. Soon, he says, the ticket ok’s “for you” page, a feed determined by algorithms in the app that indicates that the user likes the video, was showing his video after the video of conspiracy theories.
A spokesman for Ticket Ok told CNN that the company is “committed to tackling misinformation in our community and promoting media literacy. Content and accounts that promote QUAN are not allowed on our platform and are removed as identities.”
Clearly the company’s Safeguards Vanderbilt failed.
What started out as a ticket ok continued on Facebook, YouTube and Telegram, where Wandbilt says until January she spent hours every day learning more about the supposed cable of pedophiles in the Democratic Party that stole the election.
But all was not lost.
She believes her inauguration will fail even though Biden has been declared the winner of the election.
This conspiracy theory was pushed by QN followers on the eve of the inauguration, and that is what Wonderbilt believed.
But on the morning of January 20, 2021, Trump and Washington moved from Washington to their new home in Florida, and Biden became the 46th President of the United States.
Wonderbilt recalls, “I was devastated.” “Immediately, I panicked.”
He called his mom who was at work. “I just told her it’s like we’re all going to die. We belong to China. And I was, I have to pull my daughter out of school because they’re going to take her.”
His mom tried to calm him down. “Obviously God’s will was for President Biden to come to this country, so it would be good,” Wonderbilt says his mom told him. “This happens all the time. It’s an election. The parties switch, no big deal.”
After his call, he said that his mother had warned him not to take his daughter out of school.
One of the key points of QN is that there is a master plan at work and Trump is in charge. “This plan” said it would advance the so-called deep state and bring them to justice. “The plan” said it would win the 2020 election by landslide. When that didn’t happen, QN supporters began to speculate absurdly that Trump was somehow blocking Biden’s inauguration in the days or hours ahead of him.
Nothing like that happened. But like many denominations, the adoration and prophecies in Qianan are always changing. Every time a prophecy fails to come to fruition, a new doctrine makes a cut to fill the void.
And so in the hours after the inauguration, some Qian followers came up with a new conspiracy theory. The inauguration of President Biden himself was a key part of the plan, a new principle, and Trump will return as president in the next few weeks. Then, of course, all the deep state will be arrested.
It was a step up for Vanderbilt. She began to realize that she had bought the lie with almost religious zeal. For the past two weeks she has been posting on ticket ok k, the platform that drew her into conspiracy theory, and shared her story in the hope that it would help or inspire others to see the light.
Some followers of Quennon cite specific posts of anonymous people or people behind conspiracy theories as if they are scripture.
Vanderbilt credited her faith in God for helping her get out of Q Anon. When that conspiracy was hatched in theory, he said Trump was becoming almost a Messianic person for him that no one could do wrong. He recalls once asking himself, “Do I even put Trump above God?”
Wonderbilt reflects that if Trump had condemned herself she would probably have been pulled out of Quennon the day before the inauguration. Instead, he flirted with her and openly acknowledged her by retweeting leading QUEN accounts and saying positive things about QN followers.
Instead, she had a revelation of her own.
She was able to do something that not many people did, including some elected representatives and a few members of the Republican Party. She admits she was wrong and denounces Quennon as a dangerous political movement.
On the national stage, Vanderbilt hopes his story will help others.
At home, four-year-old Emerson is happy to have his mom back. She did not become an orphan, a child with parents living in a universe parallel to the conspiracy theory, but others would.
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