Episode 67 of MARS MESSINA PRESENTS picks up from where we left off from Episode 66, in which we talked about the origins of the political movement, QAnon, and its birthplace, the imageboard website, 4chan. In this episode, we further explore how anonymously posted stories, pranks, trolls, and bamboozles have been taken literally by internet users who stumble across these posts, who believe them to be real news leaks, and react to them in the real world. BEDTIME STORIES FROM THE ACOUSTIC BOOKSHELF ends with a document supposedly written by Q, the original author of Q drops and the unwitting (perhaps) leader of the QAnon movement.

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