QAnon, Slender Man, and Our Paranoid Surveillance Society
What do internet-born urban legends tell us about deep-rooted societal anxieties?
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14 min readAug 28, 2018
Donald Trump was supposed to be the main event at his rally in Tampa, Florida, in early August. Instead, thanks to a number of people in the crowd sporting T-shirts emblazoned with the letter ‘Q,’ and others who held cardboard ‘Q’…