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Interview with Travis View: QANon & Modern Conspiracies

Decoding the Gurus

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The Conspiracy Theory of QAnon

Travis: I was casting my mind back to the full catalog of conspiracy theories and most of them don't feature a hyper competent secret hero figure like Batman that is in there. That's interesting because we've looked at in the gurus we covered. There's often these kind of members of the community who emerge who often start out as quite strong defenders of whoever their preferred guru is, you know,. They'll make Twitter threads defending them or that kind of thing. But over time, they often grow their own sub audiences and can become like kind of minor gurus of their own, you know, create their own sub stack and so on.

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