"QAnon has often been compared to ARGs and LARPs and rightly so. It uses many of the same gaming mechanisms and rewards. It has a game-like feel to it that is evident to anyone who has ever played an ARG, online role-play (RP) or LARP before. The similarities are so striking that it has often been referred to as a LARP or ARG. However this beast is very very different from a game."
Reed Berkowitz of Curiouser calls the QAnon conspiracy theory "gaming's evil twin. A game that plays people."
And Daniel N. Gullotta at The Bulwark places QAnon into a longer history of Satanic panics, as well as reviewing Mike Rothschild's The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything.
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