As an objective observer who tries to stay up on things by looking across a range of sources I've noticed something weird. All of a sudden left slanted media sources have sprinted to talking about the QAnon movement. I believe they could be setting the stage to get the movement into mainstream population's sphere of awareness to then use as a scapegoat. They could fake events pretending to be "QAnon" followers, the media will report the "violence" and then they get to stop the rioting (which hasn't turned out to be the PR they wanted). They then get to blame all the destruction and mayhem on someone else. Bonus points if they can try to associate it with conservatives/Trump.

I believe this because there is a tremendous amount of obvious astroturfing going on right now. And I believe it has already begun: https://twitter.com/JuliansRum/status/1296896485636923392 & https://twitter.com/SomeBitchIKnow/status/1296911307950743552

For instance, those who have kept an eye on it know one of the on-going "memes" was that no report had ever asked about QAnon. All of a sudden they are point blank asking the President and VP in an aggressive manner any chance they get (https://youtu.be/XWVNkHQtdbw, https://youtu.be/WrhXyaJvSNs).

Additionally up until just a few months ago if you watched the latest tab of the #QAnon hash tag on twitter it was 99% real looking "pro-Q" posts and maybe 1% of random junk just tagged wrong. Within just a few months it has slowly gone from that to 99% "anti-Q"/"mocking-Q" posts. If you read for any significant amount of time you start to detect patterns in the content that seem highly unorganic.

Some of those patterns I've seen developing:

• Mocking users almost always have US military/ US flags / Patriotic inspired names or avatar pictures. Reeks of desperation trying to "fit in" and convince those watching that people "like them" are laughing at them.
• Jumping the gun: many of the tweets feature over the top rage/anger towards the movement. They are desperate to radicalize the NPCs around this next talking point that they are skipping steps. For instance - why in the world would any average citizen be moved to anger yet? Nothing public has occured tied to QAnon for that to make anysense.
• Way too much volume. Just watch Twitter for instance, the non-stop posting of anti-Q tweets makes no sense. It will as they ramp up their fake events (if they do), but this has been going on for weeks now even as nothing topical/current was happening. Tons of real accounts reporting never hearing about "over 200 planned events" (https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/qanon-looms-behind-nationwide-rallies) but suddenly the mainstream media states it as if everyone and their mothers knows about QAnon and these supposedly hyper-organized events.
• They are pushing the movement into the spotlight desperately and as fast as they can (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/technology/qanon-save-the-children-trafficking.html & https://twitter.com/RealTimers/status/1296915036816908288) after weeks of locking down and censoring the topic. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/technology/twitter-bans-qanon-accounts.html & https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53692545)

And finally the kicker:

• They are being sloppy trying to look real. Go through some of the anti-Q Twitter accounts and you will see it appears like they are using some sort of algorithmic or bot to fake activity on the accounts in some cases. I've seen tons of times where it makes no sense - the accounts post critical tweets about QAnon but retweet/share pro QAnon pieces. I believe this could be because the code they wrote is trying to mimic "profiles" of the typical QAnon follower to make them seem "just like us" but because those profiles share positive QAnon posts it is getting mixed up.