They’re in a tug-of-war between reputation survival and name brand recognition. Kind of like how the term “conspiracy theorist” has become increasingly embarrassing to use sincerely, “QAnon” has been cited so many times as not being a real person or even a real word that it’s becoming embarrassing, even in the echo chambers. On the other hand, they’ve spent five years tattooing the branding of “QAnon” as a conspiracy theory into the memories of the NPCs, and they don’t want to just give up on that recognition. Maybe TS and the cleaning of twatter have penetrated the echo chambers enough to force them to be more realistic with their terminology.
They’re in a tug-of-war between reputation survival and name brand recognition. Kind of like how the term “conspiracy theorist” has become increasingly embarrassing to use sincerely, “QAnon” has been cited so many times as not being a real person or even a real word that it’s becoming embarrassing, even in the echo chambers. On the other hand, they’ve spent five years tattooing the branding of “QAnon” as a conspiracy theory into the memories of the NPCs, and they don’t want to just give up on that recognition. Maybe TS and the cleaning of twatter have penetrated the echo chambers enough to force them to be more realistic with their terminology.