For me, I started to wake up when I realized the news wasn't just delivering the news, they were trying to sway opinion. I started to ignore it and tried to find new sources that just delivered the news. There really aren't any. So I started taking my news from many sources, cnn, fox, trunews, infowars, Steve Quayle and several more. I figured the truth was somewhere in the middle. Then I started to realize that the "conspiracy" news was actually ahead of the msm news cycle. I would read an infowars articlein march and in may/June/July the msm would be reporting on the same story. So I started to pay more attention to those "conspiracy" sources. I watched AJ's documentaries, I watched "In Plane Site" I dived onto every conspiracy theory I came across, trying to weigh each and discern the truth. In 2008, was the first time I was able to vote and during the run up to, I knew killary would not be picked and I was awake enough to know that No Name was someone I didn't want as potus. Then they started to paint obumer as a messiah figure and I started to look for the signs that he could be the anti-christ. I started to see this pattern that "conspiracy" sites would report on how the DS wants to does x to us and the news would say " no that's rediculous" and once people started to forget, then they would report on it like it's this new and wonderful thing.

In January of 2018 I was turned on to Q, by someone who just mentioned the drops on the 4chan. It peaked my interest and I have not been able to climb out of the rabbit whole ever since.