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?
A very late awakening for me. It was the stealing of the 2020 election. I’m from France but have studied English literature and history for all of my student years. So, of course, I was very much interested in the 2020 election when they happened. So, for me, Pennsylvania flipping to Biden was weird, then I started following the news everyday, discovered PW, then (and still) TheDonald, and that was when I woke up.
However, I was also aware of the major « conspiracy theories » out there and believed them without having ever really delved into them. Still, the awakening was something else.