‘QAnon leader’ Ron Watkins tells followers to ‘go back to their lives’ now Biden is president – and Q fans are not happy
SUSPECTED QAnon leader Ron Watkins told his followers to "go back to their lives" now that Joe Biden has replaced Donald Trump as president.
Watkins - the longtime administrator of s online home, 8kun, who critics have suspected may have helped write Q’s posts himself, a charge he denies —reportedly posted the comments on social media following Biden's inauguration on Wednesday, according to a screenshot shared to .
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"We gave it out all. Now we need to keep our chins up and go back to our lives as best we are able," the username CodeMonkeyZ wrote.
"We have a new president sworn in and it is our responsibility as citizens to respect the Constitution regardless of whether or not we agree with the specifics of details regarding officials who are sworn in."
"Watkins" went on to ask his followers to "remember all the friends and happy memories" made over the "past few years."
“We need to keep our chins up and go back to our lives as best we are able,” said Watkins, who in recent months had become one of the suggesting Biden’s win was a fraud.
He added that he would have more to say in the future "regarding a new project I'm currently fleshing out."
Researchers said some QAnon supporters appear to be rethinking their commitment due to a range of factors, including Q’s relative silence since the election, Trump’s anticlimactic White House exit, and the Capitol insurrection, which resulted in more than 100 arrests and delayed the certification of Biden’s victory by only several hours, reports.
But several feared that the rising intensity of those still committed to QAnon could create problems for years to come if a die-hard, militarized core persists in their belief that the U.S. government is controlled by evil pedophiles who successfully subverted the Constitution, according to the outlet.
QAnon is a conspiracy theory that has gained popularity among swathes of Trump supporters.
Its supporters claim the President is communicating about "covert battles" between himself and the Deep State.
According to , the theory centres around an anonymous source, Q, who is trying to tell the world a secret - or multiple secrets.
These centre around unfounded allegations that President Trump and special counsel Robert Mueller are waging a secret battle against an alleged paedophile ring.
Supporters of the entirely unfounded theory believe that this ring is filled with celebrities and political elites, who have been covertly running the United States government for decades.
The theory gained more press coverage after a supporter held a vast letter Q at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania in August 2018.
In June 2018, an armed QAnon follower blocked traffic at the Hoover Dam, demanding the president release a report allegedly tying past presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton to the alleged sex ring.
The protester, Matthew Wright, pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in February 2020.
The bizarre theory has gained cult status among some followers, with Q-related products such as T-shirts, mugs and jewellery available.
Reddit’s QAnon community GreatAwakening had 50,000 subscribers by 2018 - just two years after the theory first surfaced.
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And conservative celebrities such as Roseanne Barr, James Wood and Curt Schilling have also referenced its existence, giving it yet more press coverage.
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Despite originating in the darkest corners of the web, social media sites and online retailers bolstered its image with Amazon having to from linked merchandise in 2018.
On October 15, 2020, Trump refused to condemn the QAnon conspiracy theorists - insisting: "I don't know them".