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VICTORY OF THE LIGHT: A QANON PREDECESSOR
Victory of the Light is a conspiracy theorist (and/or LARPer) who hung out on 4chan and had a small but devoted following. Both his worldview and his claims about imminent events were almost identical to Q's, but months earlier.
Behold:
Victory of the Light is a conspiracy theorist (and/or LARPer) who hung out on 4chan and had a small but devoted following. Both his worldview and his claims about imminent events were almost identical to Q's, but months earlier.
Behold:
If you're an experienced Q watcher, your jaw just hit the goddamn floor* -- because Q has made identical or near-identical predictions for almost every item on that list.
* Or you already knew about VOTL, in which case: whoops, I over-hyped that quite a bit.
* Or you already knew about VOTL, in which case: whoops, I over-hyped that quite a bit.
Before we start running down the list and comparing it to the Q mythos, though, I want to highlight some important differences between the two.
For starters, VOTL's conspiracy theory centered on aliens and Jews, and involved a healthy dose of praising Hitler:
For starters, VOTL's conspiracy theory centered on aliens and Jews, and involved a healthy dose of praising Hitler:
As far as I know, Q has never made claims about aliens or stargates, and also has never overtly praised Hitler in any of the drops -- in other words, Q abandoned the most clearly fringey elements of VOTL, even as he, uh, "borrowed" many of VOTL's predictions.
And yes, it seems weird to claim that Q /backed away/ from fringey bullshit, when QAnon is /full of fringey, kooky bullshit/.
But kookiness exists on a spectrum, and "God was a Pleiadian and Hitler did nothing wrong" will scare away the normies 100% of the time.
But kookiness exists on a spectrum, and "God was a Pleiadian and Hitler did nothing wrong" will scare away the normies 100% of the time.
By contrast, Q's claims about a cabal of baby-eating Satanist pedophiles (whose ranks happen to consist exclusively of outspoken Trump opponents) were apparently close /enough/ to some widely held popular beliefs to catch on. 
I wouldn't have /thought/ that was the case in '17, but I would have been wrong!
Now! I need to take a break for RL. When I return, we'll move on to part 2: breaking down the similarities between VOTL's predictions and the QAnon myth.
P.S. Enjoy this assortment of posts from VOTL defenders, and remember: tweeting all day means it CAN'T be a LARP!
P.S. Enjoy this assortment of posts from VOTL defenders, and remember: tweeting all day means it CAN'T be a LARP!
UPDATE: To my embarrassment, I forgot to mention the other difference: VOTL accepted the validity of other conspiracy theories (in fact, he endorsed Q in 11/2017).
Q never /endorses/ other theories -- QAnon just /absorbs/ them.
Q never /endorses/ other theories -- QAnon just /absorbs/ them.
Q's approach is the right one, IMO: if, as both Q and VOTL claimed, they were bringing *the one and only truth* to the masses, then it makes no sense to interact with /rival/ claimants as if they were equals.
The right play is to keep yourself at a lofty remove...
The right play is to keep yourself at a lofty remove...
and steal all their best ideas, naturally. :D
So now, we're gonna look at how Q did exactly that.
So now, we're gonna look at how Q did exactly that.
PART 2: THE Q MYTH'S PARALLELS TO VICTORY OF THE LIGHT
Recall the main points of the VOTL storyline.
The QAnon parallels are striking -- in fact, if you lop off the UFO-related items ("disclosure", first contact, and "ascension"), you're left with exact and near-exact matches.
Recall the main points of the VOTL storyline.
The QAnon parallels are striking -- in fact, if you lop off the UFO-related items ("disclosure", first contact, and "ascension"), you're left with exact and near-exact matches.
For instance, let's take a look at Victory of the Light's claim that after the Event (in Q mythology, after the Storm), there'll be a "Release of Suppressed Technologies" -- as @travis_view documents, there are Q drops suggesting exactly the same thing: https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1060246270214725632?s=20
To make that more explicit: Q followers often believe hat after the Storm, we'll live in a utopian world.
@travis_view can drown you in a /sea/ of examples; here, take a look!
https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1076869529702064130?s=20
https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1073264097070727168?s=20
https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1034093879719415808?s=20 https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1196472320828723205?s=20
@travis_view can drown you in a /sea/ of examples; here, take a look!
https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1076869529702064130?s=20
https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1073264097070727168?s=20
https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1034093879719415808?s=20 https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1196472320828723205?s=20
Keep that last one -- the "worldwide reset" -- in mind. It'll come up shortly.
First, though, let's circle back to the most obvious and striking parallel between VOTL and Q: "mass arrests of the Cabal."
My personal favorite drop about the mass arrests: https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1081240572398981120?s=20
First, though, let's circle back to the most obvious and striking parallel between VOTL and Q: "mass arrests of the Cabal."
My personal favorite drop about the mass arrests: https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1081240572398981120?s=20
Other quality mass arrest content, also courtesy @rothschildmd, is available below. But really, /anyone/ who's seen how Q followers talk among themselves can tell you that QAnon is /centered on the Storm/, which is to say, the mass arrest of the Cabal. https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1062769386262474752?s=20
In fact, just to really drive the point home, here's a thread with over 10,000 replies (and counting, I suppose) full of QAnon followers discussing the fate that *awaits* Trump's oppon-- I mean, "the Cabal" -- after the Storm: public execution. https://twitter.com/TalktoTig/status/1271063286776123392
Hm. I just had a great and/or terrible realization: I don't /need/ to go into this level of detail for the rest of the thread. I probably didn't need this level of detail at all! Come, join me as we sprint to the finish.
Summing up:
Summing up:
In QAnon mythology, the following events will unfold in close proximity. Compare to VOTL:
1) The 10 Days of Darkness (in which the Internet is down and critical services can't function)
2) The Storm (mass arrests of the Cabal, liberating the Earth from dark forces)
1) The 10 Days of Darkness (in which the Internet is down and critical services can't function)
2) The Storm (mass arrests of the Cabal, liberating the Earth from dark forces)
3) The Cabal's wealth will be seized and, depending on which QAnon believer you talk to, redistributed to "real Americans" or used to clear the national debt;
4) Trump will put a new, just order in place that shatters the banking system and looks out for the little guy.
4) Trump will put a new, just order in place that shatters the banking system and looks out for the little guy.
5) President Trump will release cures for every disease.
I'm leaving some items out (& #5 isn't universally believed, although, as we've seen, Q believers do generally imagine that, after the Storm, we'll enter a utopian age -- we're just one violent purge away from happiness!).
I'm leaving some items out (& #5 isn't universally believed, although, as we've seen, Q believers do generally imagine that, after the Storm, we'll enter a utopian age -- we're just one violent purge away from happiness!).
Every single item on that checklist is congruent with VOTL.
Every. Single. One.
Since Q came second, it at least seems /plausible/ -- and, IMO, likely --that Q consciously borrowed some elements from the VOTL cosmology.
Every. Single. One.
Since Q came second, it at least seems /plausible/ -- and, IMO, likely --that Q consciously borrowed some elements from the VOTL cosmology.
The least we can say is that it's striking to see these two sources making *nearly identical claims*, separated by only a few months.
But I don't think we need to stop at "it's striking." I think we should consider Q a descendant, or at least a relative, of Victory of the Light.
But I don't think we need to stop at "it's striking." I think we should consider Q a descendant, or at least a relative, of Victory of the Light.
Link to the 4chan thread is below. https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/134518919/#134519913
P.S. Oh no, I left out my favorite screenshot!
P.P.S. Whoops! One of these tweets refers to "my personal favorite drop about the arrests," then links to a tweet from @rothschildmd which features no drops. My bad; I was originally going to link to drop 2344, which is just... a perfect distillation of QAnon:
