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Acknowledging that I am exceptionally biased in this regard:
Getting really tired of all the thinkpieces and commentaries about how Q and Q-adjacent things are an ARG. It feels like a game of telephone that gets more and more warped with every repetition.
Getting really tired of all the thinkpieces and commentaries about how Q and Q-adjacent things are an ARG. It feels like a game of telephone that gets more and more warped with every repetition.
One of the earlier (and most circulated) articles was written by @adrianhon, and explicitly says:
"QAnon is not an ARG. It’s a dangerous conspiracy theory, and there are lots of ways of understanding conspiracy theories without ARGs." https://mssv.net/2020/08/02/what-args-can-teach-us-about-qanon/
"QAnon is not an ARG. It’s a dangerous conspiracy theory, and there are lots of ways of understanding conspiracy theories without ARGs." https://mssv.net/2020/08/02/what-args-can-teach-us-about-qanon/
...and yet, "what can ARGs teach us about what makes QAnon compelling" has shifted into saying they're the same thing as an opening premise.
What (figuratively) kills me about this is how much care and effort ARG creators and communities have thrown into making sure players always know where the border between fiction and reality lies.
