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  • QAnon, CultTok, and Leaving It All Behind

    QAnon, CultTok, and Leaving It All Behind

    “I was impressed that it only took four years,” Danielle, self-identified ex-cult member, 34, said on a phone call. This was a few days after Joe Biden’s inauguration, and we were talking about the previous week of SOS social media posts from wide-eyed QAnon followers, like a TikToker propped up on a pillow, pleading, like…


  • When QAnon Blows Up Your Friend Group

    When QAnon Blows Up Your Friend Group

    My ex was the first person to tell me about Q. This was near the end of 2016, and we were in the beginning stages of our relationship. I took it as us having the same, passive interest in conspiracy theories. The kind of interest where you go, “LOL sounds like a Dan Brown novel!”…