The meteoric rise of #TakeTheOath

On 24 June on 8kun, Q asked believers in QAnon cosnpiracy theory to symbolically take the oath on social media platforms. Since then, the hashtag has generated nearly 800,000 tweets, with many followers posting videos of themselves doing it

Here's the 24 June Q "drop" on 8kun. #TakeTheOath was meant to symbolically unite QAnon followers ahead of 4th of July. It probably was also a symbolic response to the rejuvenation of the symbolic act of taking the knee in the aftermath of George Floyd protests

A selection of some popular videos of followers taking the oath. All mention the favourite Q slogan WWG1WGA at the end. Biggest video is from none other than Gen Michael Flynn himself. Add up view counts on all these clips and we're easily in the several million views territory

Here are some of the other popular terms, hashtags and phrases that have appeared in these videos. Literally all the favourite QAnon slogans are in the list. These are giant numbers. But how big the QAnon crowd really is out in the real world?

What is fascinating is that a massive 96% of the traffic is driven by retweets. If you include the retweets, the number of unique accounts posting #TakeTheOath content is 111,000. If you exclude retweets, the number drops to a mere 14,000. Again, how big is this movement really?

Here's a snapshot of the states where the hashtag is most popular: California, Texas and Ohio. The first tweet was on 24 June, literally minutes after Q posted his/her "drop" on 8kun

Here's a selection of some of the most active accounts promoting #TakeTheOath. All have tweeted nearly 1,500 times since 24 June
This is something I'm gonna explore for the rest of the campaign. Given the difference between real and online worlds, how big is this movement?