A Game Designer's Analysis Of QAnon

[Major Nikon]

12. The difference is gamers know they are entering a manufactured reality world

I'm convinced there's just a certain percentage of the population who are completely gullible to ideas most people would consider straight up nonsense. This situation isn't entirely limited by political affiliation as you'll find all sorts of people right here on DU who have been heavily invested in anti-vax, crop circles, chemtrails, 9-11 truthers, and all sorts of other nutbaggery. And while these people aren't Qanon adherents they do often share traits of belief in a deep-state like conspiracy of a shadow government working in secret for nefarious purposes. As far as Qanon goes, most of those "true believers" I've ran into are also heavily invested in other forms of crackpottery, including the aforementioned.

The solution to these problems is always the same. When nutbaggery is offered, you counter it with reason and ridicule and eventually the nutbags are marginalized at least until they find a new shiny object.