Many people reacted angrily to Trump's announcement that he would not be a candidate in the next presidential election.
Q-aligned candidates didn't do well at the polls, and recent drops didn't make a lot of noise.
The movement is strong according to experts.
There was confusion and anger when Donald Trump said he was going to run for president.
The belief that Trump is working to expose a group of Satan-worshiping pedophiles has grown into a part of mainstream politics.
He and his most ardent supporters have spent the last two years rejecting the idea that he was accepting that he lost the election.
The elections are all rigged and you need to vote for me again. One user wrote on 8kun that this is 1984-tier doublethink.
There's no justice for crimes against humanity, there's no justice for treason, there's no justice for crimes against humanity.
—Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) November 16, 2022
—2022 Karma 🌻🌻 (@2022_Karma) November 16, 2022
The movement was on the ground. Dozens of candidates who were aligned with the conspiracy theory movement lost their races for congress and high-ranking state offices.
The latest posts by the so-called "Q" on the forum 8kun were not received well.
The movement is losing steam, according to this evidence. Experts think that this is not the case and that it is simply evolving and changing.
Mike Rothschild, who wrote "The Storm is Upon Us", said that it's becoming more mainstream and less devoted to the mythology of Q.
A lot of people think that Q was just a dead end. The mainstream accepted the conspiracy theories about the election.
A study published in February by the Public Religion Research Institute found that nearly one in five Americans believe in the core tenets of the religion.
The director of research at PRRI said in a press release that surveys show that conspiracy theories are still popular even though the leader is out of power.
Some radicals have committed acts of violence because of the movement's ideas, and others have had their families torn apart.
As a messiah-like figure, Trump has been a key part of the mythology. In the last few months, he has winked to the movement, sharing dozens of messages alluding to them on his social media platform.
At a Trump rally in September, a song was played while his supporters raised their fingers.
Many rank-and-file QAnon believers voiced their unhappiness after he announced a third presidential run. They have long expected him to return to power through "The Storm," which would involve him leading a mass arrest of their political enemies and the execution of members of the "Deep State."
Some people are losing faith, but some people seem to be supporting Trump. This talk about being angry if he announces a run needs to stop, said one person.
Rothschild said that they worship him as a god figure. Some people are starting to give up on the idea of good things happening.
He didn't mention election fraud in his announcement, which angered a few people. He said that big influencer will come around when they get mad at Trump.
Three new "Q drops" appeared during the week of the election. The posts were made by an anonymous person who claimed to be a high-ranking government official.
The messages that sparked the conspiracy theory movement were originally posted on the forum 4chan and later moved to the site 8chan.
The previous Q drops were met with excitement and a flurry of posts from followers scrambling to decode them, but the latest drops were mostly met with ambivalence.
Fredrick Brennan, who founded 8chan but has since dedicated himself to exposing those behind the Q movement, told Insider that the reaction to the latest Q drops was comparatively "muted."
The Q reappeared in June of this year. The new posts are thought to have been written by Jim Watkins, who owns 8kun, or someone close to him, because of a technical change that was made to identify anonymous users.
Brennan helped link Watkins to the new posts at the time he was working with him.
There was a large negative reaction in June. Brennan told Insider that this month's reaction was subdued due to the negative reaction.
The father and son duo have denied being behind the organization.
The long periods of Q's absence is one of the reasons why the drops have lost their appeal.
Rothschild said that Q can't sustain itself with a few drops. The new drops are almost certainly written by 8kun owner Jim Watkins. People in the movement are 888-609- 888-609- 888-609-
The momentum is with a group of people who have gone on to have tens of thousands of followers.
The group led by Michael Protzman, who goes by the name Negative 48, led his followers to camp out in Dallas with a promise that John F. Kennedy would come back. The former president didn't show up.
Many of these people act as conduits for their followers, picking and choosing which theories and drops they consider to be the best for them.
Brennan thinks that these people are enjoying the freedom and power that they have.
They realized that they had more power in a world without Q.
Many of the splinter groups like Negative 48's are too weird and outside the norm for most believers, according to Rothschild. He said that it's all in motion without Q.
It is not known how the movement will respond to Trump's third presidential campaign and whether he will be selected as the Republican nominee for the next election.
Despite Q's predictions having not come to fruition, many believers seem to be undeterred in their faith.
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