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</font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">qAnon, the sprawling conspiracy theory that includes a vast galaxy of false claims involving everything from coronavirus to 5G to <a class="gtm-content-click" data-vars-link-text="e-commerce" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/wayfair-child-trafficking-conspiracy-theory-ae1fde42-818d-4dab-9d18-9d53f08a00a0.html" data-vars-content-id="cbbacb1e-969c-4f07-93cd-69e41bc6feeb" data-vars-headline="How QAnon works like a video game to hook people" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/wayfair-child-trafficking-conspiracy-theory-ae1fde42-818d-4dab-9d18-9d53f08a00a0.html" target="self" style="">e-commerce</a>, is seen by the FBI as a <a class="gtm-content-click" data-vars-link-text="domestic terror threat" data-vars-click-url="https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-documents-conspiracy-theories-terrorism-160000507.html" data-vars-content-id="cbbacb1e-969c-4f07-93cd-69e41bc6feeb" data-vars-headline="How QAnon works like a video game to hook people" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-documents-conspiracy-theories-terrorism-160000507.html" target="blank" style="">domestic terror threat</a>. For some Republican lawmakers, it's a <a class="gtm-content-click" data-vars-link-text="danger to be repudiated" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/qanon-congress-adam-kinzinger-90242dda-db51-48cb-a1ca-00b49fce0128.html" data-vars-content-id="cbbacb1e-969c-4f07-93cd-69e41bc6feeb" data-vars-headline="How QAnon works like a video game to hook people" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/qanon-congress-adam-kinzinger-90242dda-db51-48cb-a1ca-00b49fce0128.html" target="self" style="">danger to be repudiated</a>; for some candidates, a rallying cry. For its many followers, it's a great deal of fun.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-weight: 600;">The big picture:</span> For all its real-world impact, QAnon hooks people by working like a video game. Game designer Adrian Hon <a class="gtm-content-click" data-vars-link-text="has argued" data-vars-click-url="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/opinion/qanon-conspiracy-theory-arg.html" data-vars-content-id="cbbacb1e-969c-4f07-93cd-69e41bc6feeb" data-vars-headline="How QAnon works like a video game to hook people" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/opinion/qanon-conspiracy-theory-arg.html" target="blank" style="">has argued</a> that Qanon is a lot like an alternate-reality game, in which players follow a trail of clues online and off, to solve mysteries or just discover more clues to chase.</font></p><ul style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem; list-style-image: url("https://static.axios.com/img/axios-site/bullet-filled.svg"); padding: 0px 0px 0px 2.125rem;"><li style="padding-left: 1rem; margin-top: 3rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But QAnon also echoes other game genres, mashing them together to become an all-encompassing, highly addictive experience. Intentionally or not, it has rolled up gameplay components from the past several decades of game design.</font></li></ul><p style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's an adventure game.</font></span></p><ul style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem; list-style-image: url("https://static.axios.com/img/axios-site/bullet-filled.svg"); padding: 0px 0px 0px 2.125rem;"><li style="padding-left: 1rem; margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adventure games are built around puzzle solving, with players using exploration and trial and error to discover secrets and backstory and progress through the game. Many classics of the genre have the player unravel a sinister conspiracy.</font></li><li style="padding-left: 1rem; margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the center of QAnon are cryptic messages posted online by "Q," who claims to be a Trump administration official with high-level clearance. QAnon adherents pore over these posts, often written in phony spy jargon, to divine clues and secret messages and make fresh links in the grand conspiracy aligned against Trump.</font></li><li style="padding-left: 1rem; margin-top: 3rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Do your own research" is a mantra for many QAnon followers. The idea is that QAnon helps freethinkers break from the hive mind — though their research leads them all ineluctably to the conclusion that most Democratic politicians and celebrities are cannibalistic pedophiles.</font></li></ul><p style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's an MMORPG.</font></span></p><ul style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem; list-style-image: url("https://static.axios.com/img/axios-site/bullet-filled.svg"); padding: 0px 0px 0px 2.125rem;"><li style="padding-left: 1rem; margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That stands fo<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">r "massively multiplayer online role-playing game,</span>" in which players link up to go on quests, dispatching adversaries and discovering loot together. There's no end goal, just an opportunity to socialize online and to hone your own skills and status as a player. Raids — missions where groups of players coordinate an attack on an enemy — are commonplace.</font></li><li style="padding-left: 1rem; margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">QAnon gives many believers a sense of community and belonging</span>, and many spend hours daily talking to each other and sharing discoveries over social media. They often swarm the online profiles of figures like model Chrissy Teigen — a <a class="gtm-content-click" data-vars-link-text="frequent target" data-vars-click-url="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/30/fact-check-teigen-degeneres-oprah-not-epstein-flight-logs/5494709002/" data-vars-content-id="cbbacb1e-969c-4f07-93cd-69e41bc6feeb" data-vars-headline="How QAnon works like a video game to hook people" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/30/fact-check-teigen-degeneres-oprah-not-epstein-flight-logs/5494709002/" target="blank" style="">frequent target</a> of QAnon theories — with warnings of a reckoning to come.</font></li><li style="padding-left: 1rem; margin-top: 3rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">QAnon is also friendly to newcomers. </span>Most Q posts are intentionally enigmatic, but videos and other content from believers are often understandable to any dabbler, presenting claims about some discrete piece of the broader conspiracy, like coronavirus misinformation.</font></li></ul><p style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><span style="font-weight: 600;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's a roguelike.</font></span></p><ul style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem; list-style-image: url("https://static.axios.com/img/axios-site/bullet-filled.svg"); padding: 0px 0px 0px 2.125rem;"><li style="padding-left: 1rem; margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Roguelikes send players through a game world of procedurally generated levels. That means the gameplay potentially never ends, as there's always some new piece of the map to explore and some new configuration of characters to encounter.</font></li><li style="padding-left: 1rem; margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>QAnon "intelligence" isn't generated by a computer — though algorithms have certainly helped spread it widely throughout social media and the internet at large.</b></font></li><li style="padding-left: 1rem; margin-top: 3rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But QAnon's scale and its followers' dedication to perpetually spinning out new claims and targets of attack creates a sort of crowdsourced simulation of procedural generation that ensures there are always more paths to go down, more clues to follow, more public figures to accuse</span>.</font></li></ul><p style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 600;">The<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> bottom line: </span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">People like solving mysteries and they like feeling privy to secret knowledge. QAnon gamifies those sensations at massive scale. And although tech giants are <a class="gtm-content-click" data-vars-link-text="starting to crack down on it" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/twitter-qanon-misinformation-crackdown-08d59aa5-de6d-444c-8a2b-1c40703f899e.html" data-vars-content-id="cbbacb1e-969c-4f07-93cd-69e41bc6feeb" data-vars-headline="How QAnon works like a video game to hook people" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/twitter-qanon-misinformation-crackdown-08d59aa5-de6d-444c-8a2b-1c40703f899e.html" target="self" style="">starting to crack down on it</a>, there's no indication that its spread is slowing any time soon.</span></font></p><ul style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem; list-style-image: url("https://static.axios.com/img/axios-site/bullet-filled.svg"); padding: 0px 0px 0px 2.125rem;"><li style="padding-left: 1rem; margin-top: 3rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Voynich manuscript is a book from the 15th century filled with strange drawings and writing in an unknown language. The simplest explanation is that it's just nonsense — either an intricate hoax or total gibberish. That hasn't stopped scholars, linguists and cryptographers from spending centuries chasing its mysteries.</font></li></ul><p style="margin-top: 3rem; margin-bottom: 3rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Go deeper:</span> <a class="gtm-content-click" data-vars-link-text="QAnon's 2020 resurgence" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/qanons-2020-resurgence-41759d2b-7d08-4d6e-bad0-d2a63b6285ad.html" data-vars-content-id="cbbacb1e-969c-4f07-93cd-69e41bc6feeb" data-vars-headline="How QAnon works like a video game to hook people" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/qanons-2020-resurgence-41759d2b-7d08-4d6e-bad0-d2a63b6285ad.html" target="_self" style="">QAnon's 2020 resurgence</a></font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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