How a Trash-Talking Upstart Infuriated QAnon Boomers
A person dubbed ‘Baby Q’ is roiling the old-guard QAnon grifters.
Will Sommer
Updated Mar. 13, 2020 11:14AM ET / Published Mar. 13, 2020 11:13AM ET
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This week:
QAnon believers should be living high on the hog these days. The president recently posted a blatantly pro-QAnon meme, and Tom Hanks—the Terminal star who plays an arch-villain role in the QAnon mythos—has come down with the coronavirus.
Instead, QAnon is in turmoil. The reason: a young upstart with a YouTube account is bossing around the old guard by claiming that he is himself Q.
A month ago, a mysterious young man using the name Austin Steinbart started to make waves in the QAnon community. Steinbart has the confident, dismissive mien of a reality-show villain, and his videos exploring the QAnon world have all the quick-cuts and peppy attitude of a gadget unboxing. He’s won plenty of adherents among QAnon conspiracy theorists, who are otherwise used to settling for much lower production values...…….
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-trash-talking-upstart-infuriated-qanon-boomers