Photo Credit: @YourAnonNews on Twitter

In October 2017, “Q” materialized from the internet message board 4chan. Beginning with a thread titled “Calm Before the Storm”, Q presented himself as a government insider with top security clearance who was aware of a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and more.

Since then, Q has "continued to drop 'breadcrumbs' on 4chan and 8chan, fostering a 'QAnon' community devoted to decoding Q’s messages and understanding the real truth about, well, everything." A large population has started to not only follow the Q conspiracies, but also started to believing in them, It has gotten so far that followers are holding QAnon and Q posters at Trump rallies.

From Time Magazine:

“‘It’s a movement, man. It’s the shift. I can feel it coming,’ one Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania rally-goer told CNN on Thursday. ‘Some call it the great awakening,’ he added.

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The theory, which originated from anonymous messages posted online, purports to explain everything from the sinking of the Titanic to the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, weaving them into a grand narrative where President Donald Trump is a secret mastermind – and hero.

"QAnon’s online clues — called ‘breadcrumbs’ — are so vague, they can be hard to follow," the Time Magazine article continued. "But there has been no evidence to prove them.”

QAnon devotees function on social media using hashtags such as  #Qanon, #8chan, #QAnons, #FollowTheWhiteRabbit, #Pedogate, #PizzaGate and #TheStormIsComing

Enter Anonymous.

The hacktivist collective known for operations such as Project Chanology, the Westboro Baptist Church hack, OpISIS, anti-pedophile ops and Occupy Wallstreet announced, over the weekend, a declaration of war on QAnon:

A sample ofthe  reactions to the announcement are:

The full announcement states:

The war against QAnon is declared. You are not Anonymous.

Hello boys and girls, it’s time to learn your A B C’s.
"L." "M." "N." "O." "P." "Q." Op Q, Op Q Anon.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMN (#OpQ) RSTUVWXYZ.

  • Greetings Q, We are Anonymous.

We’ve been watching the interwebs from deep within our basements, flinging data bits and bytes here and there – living the stereotypical hacker life, you know; eating Doritos and drinking the Dew, (we do the dew – that shit’s trademarked by the way), and we’ve been watching the world burn at the hands of idiots.

We’ve slapped around a few people for being ignorant morons, sure – we’re totally not sorry for taking down racist websites or helping antifascist movements, leaking ICE data, and also all the little things we do when people don’t pay attention…

Anyhow Q, we’ve been watching you too – and you’re quite funny.

We were all like “yo, check this troll out! He has them convinced that he’s on the inside and they’re eating it up like sheep!” We all knew who was responsible for Q, and we thought the insanity would end with a final punch line of lulz – yet u 8 chan freaks never delivered that shit. Nope, you tossed it aside and let it grow into a deformed Alex Jones conspiracy thought bubble. Someone is gonna get hurt, so we have to put our foot down and start some shit with you all, oh kay? We don’t know if you can hang with the real thing, cuz believe it or not – we’re kind of upset that you’d try to even associate yourselves with our decentralized collective. That crazy pedophile conspiracy you Q’s are throwing around while ignoring

Trump’s own connections makes us wonder why?

Seems you have some kooky political agenda. We don’t like brainless political agendas; hell we don’t even like political agendas at all, so get your asses ready for a thrashing of butt hurt. You got all these foolish people all riled up with no proof, no leaks. We have plans. We will not sit idly by while you take advantage of the misinformed and poorly educated.

In our collective we all have our differences and internal drama but we do have one thing in common; none of us are happy with your bullshit. And oh my god, oh no – it’s teh real “Anonymous” they deep state fedz oh my god ohmygod *insert conspiracy* theory omg help.

We gonna wreck you.

  • We are Anonymous,
  • We are legion,
  • We do not forgive,
  • We do not forget.
  • We’re sure you know we’re coming, how could you not?

The people behind #OpQAnon clearly find amusement in the followers of QAnon. This has lead to a spoofed meme of the Coco Puffs cereal as shown below.

A video has also been released explaining #OpQAnon.

You can follow the activity using hashtags #OpQAnon and #OpQ.

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