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?
Back in the 2000's, I was talking with some guy who moderated some Internet forum. And he told me that the Conspiracy Theorists all had something mentally wrong with them and he tried to talk sense into them by replying. I didn't know what he was talking about, so I had to go read what these people were saying. Was my first taste of learning about the raging debates, the shills, the strawman arguments, the ad hominem attacks, the forum sliders, etc. But more importantly, I found ideas that weren't discussed anywhere else. Started my awakening.