For me, the point of my awakening was pre-Q, when an incident known as the so-called "vanishing" of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH-370 occurred. There's just way too much surveillance over our skies for me to believe the BS that was relayed by MSM outlets after that. And after that, it was one rabbit hole after another that led me towards getting the full picture of what was truly up. My only real exposure to "conspiracy theories" prior to this point was the (extremely little) knowledge that the rap community (for e.g. Immortal Technique) were speaking about things such as the Illuminati and 9/11 and Reptilians and all of that stuff, and, like any other normie, I refused to believe it. At that time, I clubbed it all in with "tinfoil hatter nonsense", like how the normies now club anything that sounds unbelievable with "flat earther nonsense" and such. But yes, after that flight disappearance incident, I pretty much woke up full-scale in about less than 6 months or so.
What's your awakening story?
Kennedy assassination and Oswald getting shot on live TV by Jack Ruby. Most of the adults were saying that LBJ had to have been involved, as he would have never had a chance to be president otherwise. This is when the CIA coined the phrase "conspiracy theory."
It was reinforced by Nixon taking us off the gold standard and at the same time putting in a wage and price freeze to keep us from immediately seeing the effects. I was working my first job at the time, and the store owner's wife was in the store marking up prices on everything she could before opening time.
Then there was the "gas shortage" when tankers were supposedly parked out in the ocean just waiting. Odd days and even days based on license plate numbers, seeing a gas company fuel truck with the name of the company papered over pulling gas from not so busy stations to put it in the gas company's own station regardless of brand (misbranded gasoline), even refilling the regular tanks with high test when the regular ran out, and the inflation caused by Nixon finally taking off.
It has been a more or less steady stream of crap since Kennedy was shot. I don't personally remember the steady stream before that back to 1913 and beyond.