It's news for nerds because it involves a meme/conspiracy theory, started on an imageboard, that despite being utterly ridiculous has been immensely influential. Imageboards are an early nerd thing.
Additionally, a large number of Slashdot's commentators are extremely right wing, and many have adopted the conspiracy theory themselves.
Q is an individual that pretended to be an insider who knew that Trump's main aim in getting to power was to uncover and destroy a massive secret elite pedophile ring supposedly run by the Democrats. QAnon is the name of this conspiracy theory. Q made supposed "drops" every now and again claiming that something big was going down, or that something was being presented one way by the media but was the opposite (for instance, Mueller wasn't investigating the help the Russian government gave the Trump campaign, but was actually helping Trump with his investigation into Clinton, and was, any day now, going to indict Clinton.) Despite having something pretty close to a 0 success rate, and despite Trump's own connections with people like Epstein and his boasts about being able to walk into the changing rooms of 14yo beauty contest contestants while they were naked, people continued believing this crap, making numerous death threats to various Democrats, and so on.
A sizable number of the banners and flags raised by the insurrectionists on January 6th were Q related.
Glad I'm not on social media or care about rumers. (Score:-1, Redundant)
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It's news for nerds because it involves a meme/conspiracy theory, started on an imageboard, that despite being utterly ridiculous has been immensely influential. Imageboards are an early nerd thing.
Additionally, a large number of Slashdot's commentators are extremely right wing, and many have adopted the conspiracy theory themselves.
Q is an individual that pretended to be an insider who knew that Trump's main aim in getting to power was to uncover and destroy a massive secret elite pedophile ring supposedly run by the Democrats. QAnon is the name of this conspiracy theory. Q made supposed "drops" every now and again claiming that something big was going down, or that something was being presented one way by the media but was the opposite (for instance, Mueller wasn't investigating the help the Russian government gave the Trump campaign, but was actually helping Trump with his investigation into Clinton, and was, any day now, going to indict Clinton.) Despite having something pretty close to a 0 success rate, and despite Trump's own connections with people like Epstein and his boasts about being able to walk into the changing rooms of 14yo beauty contest contestants while they were naked, people continued believing this crap, making numerous death threats to various Democrats, and so on.
A sizable number of the banners and flags raised by the insurrectionists on January 6th were Q related.
Does that help?