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''QAnon Anonymous'' (''QAA'') is an
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that analyzes and debunks
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. It is co-hosted by Travis View ( real name: Logan Strain), Julian Feeld, and Jake Rockatansky, alongside Annie Kelly (British correspondent), Liv Agar (Canadian correspondent), Brad Abrahams ( Inner Earth correspondent), and Allie Mezei (QAA Legal Analyst).


History

The podcast premiered in August 2018, around 10 months after the first posts made by the person claiming to be 'Q' on the 4chan message board. NPR called QAA "a podcast that tracks and debunks online conspiracy theories", initially focusing on the QAnon conspiracy theory but has since widened to discuss related conspiracy theories in general and the history of conspiratorial and reactionary thinking in other time periods. On April 11, 2024, the podcast officially rebranded from QAnon Anonymous to simply the QAA Podcast, along with a new theme song and cover art. The members of QAA have attended various QAnon live events, including the first ever QAnon conference, as well as events relating to other subjects of their journalism. QAA describes QAnon as a "
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conspiracy theory" and a " meta conspiracy theory that provides an underlying narrative for other baseless theories".


Hosts and correspondents

Travis View has written extensively for the ''
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'' on the subject of QAnon. The podcast's hosts and correspondents, and View in particular, have been quoted and interviewed extensively by media covering the QAnon phenomenon, including ''
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'', ''
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'',
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, the
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, ''
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'', and the
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(SPLC). Julian Feeld has told ''
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'' that QAnon is "a colorful expression of a broader and more worrying global trend towards 'information warfare' in the service of those seeking to consolidate capital and power". Annie Kelly acts as the podcast's United Kingdom correspondent and joined the podcast as the conspiracy theory spread from the United States to other countries, such as when it was accelerated by the
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. Liv Agar has covered conspiracy theories focused on Canada, as well as topics relating to modern-day adolescent internet culture. Brad Abrahams was a documentary filmmaker working on projects relating to new age conspiracies when he joined the podcast as an occasional host.


Miniseries

A number of limited miniseries have been produced by various members of QAA. ''Trickle Down'', hosted by View, discusses the historical dispensation of bad ideas and their results. ''ManClan'', by Feeld and Kelly, is a deep dive into the emerging online
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and its various figures. ''The Spectral Voyager'', courtesy of Rockatansky and Abrahams, talks about aliens and related subcultures. ''Perverts'', hosted by Feeld and Agar, and is an exploration of "horny" online communities.


Reception

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'' named QAnon Anonymous as their Podcast of the Year for 2020. QAnon Anonymous has collaborated with a number of other podcasts, including Knowledge Fight, Boontavista and the Conspirituality Podcast.


References


External links

* {{official website, https://www.qanonanonymous.com Political podcasts Investigative journalism 2018 podcast debuts Audio podcasts American podcasts QAnon Technology podcasts